The first day I tried to play H4, it would open the (rather large) splash screen, and close without playing the (also rather long) intro sequence. The next day, I did a few searches and found RivaTuner was triggering the anti-cheat. Closing MSI Afterburner, which hosts Rivatuner, allowed H4 to start. If I tried enabling the Rivatuner on-screen display, the game would freeze. Fortunately, there is an FPS counter built in, though I still needed to tab out to check the temperatures of my new graphics card, which I’m running near full usage much of the time to enjoy the visuals the game has to offer.
As of yesterday, I had 110 hours “in Horizon life”. Today, I did some more searching about Rivatuner and FH4… I learned that Rivatuner has a feature whereby it will identify or analyze the executable of a game to enable different profiles/optimize the OSD. I opened it and navigated to WindowsApps in Program Files… Didn’t have permission to open WindowsApps.
Here’s where I borked things. I went to WindowsApps Properties>Security>Advanced>Change Owner and in the field “Enter object name to select” I typed my account name, then OK, without clicking Check Names first. This created a permission on all subcontainers and objects of the WindowsApps folder with the principal “S-1-15-3-3232211935-909325347-210818523-1333736584-3758124246-283266685-1557978965”. This principle does not show on WindowsApps.
When attempting to launch FH4, the splash screen opens, closes, and the intro sequence fails to start.
I have
Removed the added permissions from folder “Microsoft.SunriseBaseGame_1.210.773.2_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe” and Microsoft.SunriseBaseGame_2018.1101.1451.2_neutral_~_8wekyb3d8bbwe.
Made sure RivaTuner is closed
Checked Microsoft Store for any kind of “verify app file integrity” feature
Should I try reinstalling the game? That might cost me another $30 if I want to have any data left over in a fresh monthly cycle with speeds higher than 1Mbps.