Talk:Asphalt 8: Airborne/@comment-192.40.89.237-20170503114557

Well I had to perform a repair install of Windows 10 and it never cease to amaze me that while Microsoft stresses the greatness of UWP apps, that's where I usually end up having issues...

As a thanks to this forum... If you ever experience trouble with your Asphalt 8 (any UWP app for that matter) here's a few options for you to try out.

First of all, the apps are found in your 'C:\Program Files\WindowsApps' folder and you don't initially have access to that folder as it is owned by the 'NT SERVICE\TrustedInstaller' user. The 'WindowsApps' folder is also hidden which means you will have to show hidden folders to see it. The first thing that may go wrong is that a needed user is missing from the folder hierarchy. For the record though, these are the defaults:

'NT SERVICE\TrustedInstaller', 'SYSTEM', 'ALL APPLICATION PACKAGES', 'users', 'LOCAL SERVICE', 'NETWORK SERVICE', 'RESTRICTED'. Of these, the first two have 'Full Control' The rest have 'Read & Execute'. The 'Administrator' user actually only have 'List Folder Contents', but no worries, your account belongs to the 'Users' group and so you should have an effective permission of 'Read & Execute'.

What typically may be missing or have wrong security rights assigned to it is 'ALL APPLICATION PACKAGES' and 'Users' and so the UWP app won't run. I know that if you search the net, you will probably find advice to add your personal account and add 'Full Control' privileges to that as well as the 'ALL APPLICATION PACKAGES' user, but for security, stick with the default.

This time around though, I got another error: 'The server GAMELOFTSA.Asphalt8Airborne_3.0.0.7_x86__0pp20fcewvvtj! App did not register with DCOM within the required timeout.'

I found the error message in the Eventviewer ([WinKey]+[R] and type eventvwr.msc in the box and tap [Enter] to get there). It was found by expanding 'Windows Logs' and clicking 'System' in the left pane. Asphalt 8 typically did just briefly show its window and exited and is generally not very helpful as to what went wrong.

Here's how you fix that situation... Open 'File Explorer', navigate to and open a folder like your C: drive. Now click on the 'File' tab, and click on 'Open Windows Powershell'->'Open Windows Powershell as administrator'. This will open a window with blue background if done properly. In this window, copy and paste this:

Add-AppxPackage -register "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\GAMELOFTSA.Asphalt8Airborne_3.0.0.7_x86__0pp20fcewvvtj\AppxManifest.xml" -DisableDevelopmentMode

What you just do is to re-register the Asphalt 8 app on your computer and so also for DCOM. The reason for telling you about the Evenviewer is of course that it gave the correct folder name, namely 'GAMELOFTSA.Asphalt8Airborne_3.0.0.7_x86__0pp20fcewvvtj' and it will only work for the current version, the next update will typically change the folder name and so you will have to update the above command line with the correct folder name if you need it for future versions.

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