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(2025) Get the Game running on Win 10/11 + Crashing Issues *LINK UPDATED*

By LittleTale

How to install GFWL on win 10/11 to play Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City ONLINE

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Guide Index

Overview

Download & Install GFWL

Firewall Exception

Extra Steps

Common Issues

Enjoy the Game

Comments

Download & Install GFWL

(optional step)

1- If you already have it installed, please uninstall GFWL and run a CCleaner + clean registry.

2- Restart your PC.

(optional step)

3- Download GFWL on this link only ! (do not install the one you can download on microsoft driver support webpage)

Game For Windows Live[community.pcgamingwiki.com] <= install this one ! It's the one microsoft try to install but is outdated and cannot connect to the internet.

4- After installing just click "close" don't launch GFWL then sign in (or create) a GFWL account with your Hotmail/Outlook address here:

USE MICROSOFT EDGE EXPLORER ==> https://account.live.com/proofs/AppPassword?mkt=en-us

YOU NEED TO BE SIGNED IN TO MICROSOFT/XBOX ON YOUR COMPUTER FOR GFWL TO BE ABLE TO CONNECT ! YOU CANNOT USE A LOCAL PC ACCOUNT !

I GET TIRED OF PEOPLE TELLING ME IT'S NOT WORKING AND REALIZING THEY'RE NOT SIGNED INTO THEIR WINDOWS WITH THE SAME MICROSOFT EMAIL THEY ATTEMPT TO LAUNCH THE GAME WITH ! ! !

I will not provide help for any issues regarding cracked version of Windows 10/11

BEFORE STARTING: do the step in the next section "Firewall Exception" (Win11 23H seems to not let GFWL start if it's not whitelisted)

5- Launch Operation Raccoon City and log in with your account

IF THE GAME WON'T LAUNCH DO THE EXTRA STEP OF THIS GUIDE FIRST

6- When you start the game it will ask you for the serial code that steam supply you with, enter it.

IT CAN TAKE UP TO 5 MINUTES FOR GFWL TO LOG YOU IN ! IT'S NOT STUCK ! just GFWL working at his own pace. . .

7- *depends on your version* It will ask you to Update GFWL, accept, close Operation Raccoon City and start the update process

8- Launch Operation Raccoon City and finally you should be all set to play !

9- ENJOY !

(optional step)

10- Run a CCleaner to delete the old GFWL Registry

11- Restart your PC.

(optional step)

Firewall Exception

For some user you might be unable to connect online until you've added Resident Evil Operation Raccoon City and Game for Windows Live to pass throught your firewall !

(WINDOWS 10) - Go to your Settings icon on the windows menu, in the search bar type "firewall" and select windows defender firewall. There manualy add 'GFWLive.exe', 'GFWLClient.exe' and "RaccoonCity.exe"

- You can find them here :

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Games for Windows - LIVE\Client

and

YOUR DISK PATH:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Resident Evil Operation Raccoon City

Extra Steps

After you installed GFWL go to this folder :

C:\Windows\SysWOW64

In the search box in the top right type 'xlive' then search, a few files are going to show up, select them all and right click them, then "copy" (DO NOT USE "CUT")

Go to :

C:\Windows\System32

Paste the files there, then restart your computer.

This should help in case you Windows version install the GFWL files as if it was a 64Bit program.

Common Issues

GAME CRASHING OR NOT LAUNCHING

- IF THE GAME CRASH TO DESKTOP:

Go to My documents \capcom\RERC and DELETE the "settings.dat" File !
(if you have made change to your computer this file makes the game crash, don't worry it does not affect your save file !)

- (ONLY IF YOU ARE EXPERIENCING LOW FPS) Go to the install folder:

(C:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Resident Evil Operation Raccoon City)

Right click on "RaccoonCity.exe" and select "properties"
Click the "Compatibility" tab and check the "Compatibility Mode" box and select "Windows 7"

Enjoy the Game

Play with friends as it is a much better co-op game than a solo one !

73 Comments

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Man 19 Sep @ 9:17pm

ROE is looking at this

PolterKaist 10 Sep @ 12:19am

Nm, I found the fix in the community. I didnt have to roll it back

PolterKaist 9 Sep @ 11:54pm

Gotcha. How would I go about fixing that? I thought I figured it out, and while it DID connect GFWL to the game, it crahsed anytime I tried to start playing online

LittleTale [author] 9 Sep @ 12:52pm

@PolterKaist_ TTV CAPCOM removed GFWL in an update 3 months ago. making the game exclusively single player. to enable GFWL you need to rollback to previous game version via steam !

PolterKaist 9 Sep @ 5:00am

Hey, SO I think I did all the steps right and I have GFWL downloaded, enabled in the firewall and my pc is logged into my microsoft account. But when I boot up the game, I dont have the GFWL tab at the top of the screen to log into my account

[CI]Dear 26 Jul @ 9:12am

Yes, that's why I didn't want to be direct, do you think you can help me with that outside of Steam, Discord maybe, or wherever you prefer?

LittleTale [author] 26 Jul @ 9:08am

@[CI]Dear Yes you can, its actually possible and not that hard, but I cannot discuss piracy related theme on steam comments

[CI]Dear 26 Jul @ 9:06am

A question, since the game is no longer available for purchase, I cannot acquire it. I have even searched for it on websites that sell keys, but they are either out of stock or excessively expensive. I want to play with a friend who has the game. Is there any way to make this work on a different version of the game?

Hella Saiyan 21 Jul @ 3:35pm

LittleTale [author] 10 Jul @ 11:39am

@Ratão Filho de Deus! just go into your \Documents\CAPCOM\RERC and delete settings.dat

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