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- Now, the next thing to do is to open notepad.

- Dont write ANYTHING into it, all you have to do is save that blank notepad as an "xml" file.

- To do that, with the notepad open, click "save as" then rename the file to "SystemInformation.xml",
click the "Save As Type" to read "All Files", and save it under the location of X:\SteamLibrary\SteamAppps\common\Jade Empire\data

*(the letter X is just a placeholder for whatever drive you may store you steam library/games too, I.E. your C: drive or what have you)

- Once you ensure that xml file is there, go to your steam library folder (it should just be the parent folder of all those files) and look for a file that reads "steam.dll". copy an paste that file into your Jade Empire game folder, and voila, ragazzo, presto, and whatever jibberty jabberty else you can say, your game should begin working once you click jadeempire.exe

Hope this works, thanks for everyone else who figure this out and posted up the workaround on the web, i just streamlined the info to this guide.