I had it. My steam version refused to update. So I downloaded an ISO and used my steam serial number and that version updated correctly. The I just removed the steam version.
Are you thinking about the juri c.mk making guy’s ex tatsu whiff ? I was confused when it worked in a recent game. I don’t know if I was just lucky with a random timing.
About an GFWL issue:
From a few days, I can’t open the GFWL ingame and display the friendlist. It seems when I try, GFWL has trouble to show my xboxcontacts. They are online and ingame but GFWL can’t show the game (I could see what they were playing before). Then shortly after, the game crashes. The game still works fine everywhere until I access the friendlist.
Will try to reinstall and find a fix
I have a major problem with GFWL when I try to play SSF4 on my PC. The game works fine until I open my friends list (not messages or anything else, it’s the friends list when I try to invite etc).
The game slows down to a crawl and never recovers, even if I sign out from live. I have no idea what is causing the issue since it started yesterday - out of the blue. Few people on my list have experienced similar issues with AE2012 but they said it was only temporary.
Any ideas or solutions? Haven’t had time to read this thread before, just throwing this out here but I’ll read earlier posts now.
The problem comes from GFWL, I tried with my old pc that I didn’t use for 1 year and it still crash on the friendlist. Also I can open it when there is only a couple of friends online. It’s guaranteed to crash when I have at least 10 friends (which includes xbox contacts) online.
I did a cleanup of my friendlist and it seems to work. Pretty bad for a system which should give cross xbox/gfwl features 
Jesus, that explains it. I added more peeps yesterday and it begun after that. What a horrible piece of programming.
I have the same problem, it’s really starting to annoy me. I tried going from 100 to around 70 friends to no effect. It also just happened out of the blue for me, no changes were made to the computer or the game.
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The problem came back today even though I deleted a lot of people (worked for a while after that). Oh well, need to communicate via steam and just accept invites. Garbage…[/FONT]
I got the same problem as you guys. I checked the crash log and it gave me this.
MSVCR90.dll is what makes me wonder. It’s related to the the Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable Package.
Apparently I had two versions installed on my computer. Version 9.0.30729.6161 is the SP1 version and 9.0.30729.4148 is the regular one. I uninstalled the SP1 one. And it started working again, I thought I fixed it, but it crapped out on me today again. GFWL is really an abomination 
I’m trying right now to reinstall the game through Steam and reinstall GFWL and the DirectX.
I’ve also removed a bunch of friends on XBL since somebody said it’d fix the problem. Fingers crossed :’(
EDIT: Reinstalling and removing friends from the Friends list might have fixed it. We’ll see how long it lasts…
GFWL is such ass. ae pc would be boss as fuck if they wouldve just gone with steam servers or really used anything for GFWL…
It would still have completely botched input configuration and lack vanilla super.
If those things were fixed and GFWL got the boot, I’d be very happy.
I just know at some point in the future the game won’t work anymore for anyone, and GFWL will be the reason.
I still got the opening Friendlist crash issue the other day. Still happened when I had more than 10 friends online. Deleting friends only temporary fixed it.
FOR THOSE RUNNING WINDOWS 8!!! The problem with windows 8 is that it’s missing some dx9 files, so to solve that, you simply run the dx web installer here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35
for those that have the game installed on a separate partition, you dont have to reinstall. just run the dx install and gfwl install and ur good. tested on win8 64 rp and rtm. i guess i should make a new thread for the world to see
I have the friends list issue, and I don’t even have 10 friends. Game plays fine unless I open that up. Anyone had any luck fixing it? Seems to only have started within the past month or so.
What does the crashlog say?
I don’t crash, the game just starts going incredibly slow, like 10 fps and stays that way until I exit and restart the program.
When does it happen?
When you’re playing Endless Match?
Any time I open the friends list the game immediately starts going laggy. Even on the menus it feels sluggish. Arcade mode, Endless, no matter what it goes sluggish. I can alt tab the game and my computer is fine, it is only the game that is affected.
That’s the problem I have as well Chocobuny. I’ve tried pretty much everything. Installing the game and c++ again, deleting friends etc.
ps. I did send a message to LIVE and their response was : “I have informed the tech-lab and we got some of our best men working on your case, we got them working in shifts. evil laugh”
I never fixed my problem in a conventional way, ended up upgrading my motherboard and some other parts for unrelated reasons + reformatting and now my problem is gone. Not saying this is a solution just saying I never figured out why it happened.
im getting this “An unhandled error has occurred. (-1)” at startup, anyone else gettingthis?