Still no success. I've defragmented my hard drive over night, but there is no change. Still throwing that error at me.

well, if it IS the anti-piracycheck, I wonder why it should only give me problems when I try using mods... Normally, I would expect it to jump into action regardless if I run the game vanilla or not...

Anyways, I'm checking now if your tips work (I always start the game directly via the exe, Never used the launcher..)

EDIT: tried, and did not work. Still the same old problem, with AM and without.

I have tried updating .Net, however, this has not done anything. And here I was hoping that this was the solution...

Any other ideas, how this could happen? I don't assume that there is a problem with my game itself, since it runs smoothly and without any problems at all, as long as I don't try mods...

I appologize if this problem was discussed already, and I didn't find it, or if this is in the wrong place. I'm not awesome at all, so I need the help of people that are more awesome than me...

My problem is that I have no way to get CC to work in my game. Whenever I try, I get an error message stating that the application failed to initialize (0xc0000142). I have tried all the voodoo (deleting cache-files, rebooting, reinstalling the framework...)

I thought, maybe it might be something with my files in the mod-folder, so I cleared everything out. However, I still got the same error message.

If I remove the resource.cfg file, the game crashes to the desktop even before the EA logo pops up. If I leave it in and revove the dll that came with the framework, the game freezes imideately at the loading screen.

My PC is running on XP, by the way, and I use Delphy's monkey helper. Also, I don't know if this is important to know, but I cannot run the game from DVD since my drive is broken, so I use daemon-tools and an img pulled from the original DVD. [Somehow, the people over at MTS bitch about me not running the Game from DVD, although I use a (virtual, but not cracked) legal copy of my legal disk which I cannot use due to my broken Disk-drive.]
However, the same error occured at my brothers PC, which runs the game from the DVD on Vista...

I hope, that someone in here can help me, I don't know who could then...

(Also, please excuse my english, I'm not a native speaker. I try my best, though)