This is a DirectX 9 issue. Modern graphics cards have deprecated some old D3D9 commands.
Leave a comment below. Capcom may have abandoned RE5, but the community never will. Keywords used: re5 steam fix, Resident Evil 5 crash fix, GFWL removal, RE5 co-op connection error, Fatal Application Exit RE5, Windows 11 RE5 patch.
Resident Evil 5 (RE5) remains a beloved co-op classic, but its Steam version has a notorious reputation. Almost fifteen years after its initial release, players are still wrestling with the ghost of Games for Windows Live (GFWL) , launch crashes, infinite loading screens, and the dreaded "Fatal Application Exit" error.
Only download these files from reputable GitHub repositories (like xlive-less or Ultimate-ASI-Loader ).
If you are still crashing after trying all five fixes, consider a clean Windows installation or playing the "RE5 Gold Edition" via Xbox Game Pass’s cloud streaming. But for most users, the combination of the xlive.dll override and the DEP registry tweak solves 99% of issues.
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  Autour de la Rosace (Robin Meys) (channel dedicated to learning to play the guitar) (in French) |
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| Musique classique au Saguenay (Michel Baron)
(in French) |
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| Musique renaissance (Alain Naigeon)
(ancient notation, MIDI files, scores, personal compositions)
(in English / French) |
| mirror site |
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| General music |
| Guitar |
| Piano |
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| Digital Collections (Library of Congress) (in English) |
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| Harmony Central (in English) |
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| Guitar |
| seicorde.it
(in English / Italian) |
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| Guitar Foundation of America (in English) |
| GuitarSite.com
(not only classical guitar) (in English) |
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| LaGuitare.com
(not only classical guitar) (in French) |
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| Ernesto's Gitarrenlinks (Ernst Jochmus)
(not only classical guitar) (in German) |
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| Hamburger Gitarrenseite! (in German) |
| Piano |
| Piano World (in English) |
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| The Piano Page
(in English) |
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| UK Piano Page (The Association of Blind Piano Tuners) (in English) |
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| Piano bleu (in French) |
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| France Pianos (in French) |
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| piano.pagina.nl (in Dutch) |
| Pian e forte (in German) |
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| Music Active Sunn(in French) |
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This is a DirectX 9 issue. Modern graphics cards have deprecated some old D3D9 commands.
Leave a comment below. Capcom may have abandoned RE5, but the community never will. Keywords used: re5 steam fix, Resident Evil 5 crash fix, GFWL removal, RE5 co-op connection error, Fatal Application Exit RE5, Windows 11 RE5 patch.
Resident Evil 5 (RE5) remains a beloved co-op classic, but its Steam version has a notorious reputation. Almost fifteen years after its initial release, players are still wrestling with the ghost of Games for Windows Live (GFWL) , launch crashes, infinite loading screens, and the dreaded "Fatal Application Exit" error.
Only download these files from reputable GitHub repositories (like xlive-less or Ultimate-ASI-Loader ).
If you are still crashing after trying all five fixes, consider a clean Windows installation or playing the "RE5 Gold Edition" via Xbox Game Pass’s cloud streaming. But for most users, the combination of the xlive.dll override and the DEP registry tweak solves 99% of issues.
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| Logos (portal dedicated to languages) (multilingual) |
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| Discover Tintin (by Nicolas Sabourin) (in English / French / Spanish) |
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| Hit the Marc !
(nice to see home page) (in English / French) |
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| Jan Brett's Home Page (thousands of drawings in this marvellous website)
(in English) |
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| Liens Utiles (splendid search directory by François Pecheux)
(in French) |
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| Formatic 2000 (sur archive.org) (very interesting search directory by Claude Trudel)
(in French) (archive of the website) |
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| Framasoft (search directory of freewares) (in French) |
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| Alain Vouillon's Website (a source of useful information on Windows XP)
(in French) |
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| Pierre Torris
(who died in 2014) (on gratilog.net) (freewares) (in French) |
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| Gérard Ledu (personal freewares and mathematics) (in French) |
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| AutourduPC (Laurent Bonnin) (all information on all the Windows) (in French) |
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| Les Chromos Pedagos (Marie Elisabeth Journiac)
(a stroll through time with delightful chromolithographs)
(in French) |
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| Pierre Wattiez-Watch (the fantastic worlds of Watch, painter and illustrator)
(in French) |
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| Mathématiques magiques (never say again that you don't like mathematics after
viewing this superb website by Thérèse Eveilleau)
(in French) |
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| Y fo lire ! (science fiction, comic strip, encyclopedia for children,
quotations, JavaScripts, etc. in this stylish website by Jean-Marie Plusquellec)
(in French) |
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| Tout JavaScript.com (everything about JavaScript by Olivier Hondermarck)
(in French) |
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| Simulation de Billard Français
(French billiards simulation software by Laurent Buchard)
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| pdf995 (the best freeware to create PDF files) |
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