Flesh Eaters

@conradproteus - managed to get the game to start. I was googling my error message and noticed other people had a similar error for different games.

Then I purchased a game on Steam called "What's Under My Blanket" as it was known not to start for some people similar as this game. Similarly to Flesh Eaters, What's Under My Blanket only has a game.exe in its folder which could be a coincidence as to why both these games had issues starting.

First things first I read on a Steam Forum page that if you uninstalled Physx Drivers from Control Panel, Reinstall them via your Graphics Driver Software, restart your PC it should fix things.

I was skeptical so I uninstalled everything Physx and then re-installed the latest Nvidia Graphic Drivers as to prompt the latest Physx driver to install (Physx is used by AMD too apparently). This initially didn't fix anything. So, I opted out and back into the Steam Beta, which again did nothing. So I thought, I'll restart my PC.

After restarting, I don't know that anything had changed or if either Flesh Eaters/What's Under My Blanket worked. Therefore, I kept digging and a user told me on the What's Under My Blanket Discussion Forum to right click the game.exe of What's Under My Blanket and extract the files with Winrar. I did this and this made a folder which contained a bunch of files and another .exe. After this I closed Steam fully and launched What's Under My Blanket from the .exe I had just extracted and to my amazement the game worked.

I found this hard to believe and relaunched Steam. I then tried launching What's Under My Blanket from Steam and no longer was I getting the error on startup. I then proceeded to uninstall and re-install What's Under My Blanket (To get rid of the extracted files) and after doing this the game worked almost perfectly... except I couldn't get Steam Achievements to work for the game.

Therefore, as I got What's Under My Blanket working, I decided to try Flesh Eaters and to my amazement it just works. It launched, no Application Error or anything.

Overall, I think Uninstalling and re-installing Physx Drivers and restarting my computer was the likely fix for both of these games. However, it could have to do with opting out and back in of Steam Beta as I hadn't restarted my computer until I did both of these.

TL:DR Things to try:

1. Uninstall and Re-install Physx Drivers - Restart and test
2. Opt out and in Steam Beta - Restart and Test
3. Extract Flesh Eaters game.exe by right clicking game.exe and extracting with WinRar or similar program. Then close Steam Fully and double click the extracted FleshEaters.exe. The Game should load and work. Re-Launch Steam and try playing the game from your Steam Library. If it still works, delete it and re-download and install it. Then try playing it again and all should be fixed.

If anyone is curious could you try those three in that order 1 by 1 and tell me if at any stage the game starts working for you? I pretty much did 1, 2 and 3 together myself so I'd be interested to know. Either way the games are 100% working for me again :D

PS: Getting Flesh Eaters and What's Under My Blanket to work could have been fixed by something else entirely but I have no idea as the three steps listed above is pretty much all I did.

For those having errors with getting the game to start, there is an easy fix. right click on the game in your steam menu, click on properties, than local files, browse local files. From there simply take the game and copy paste to your desktop and close steam. This worked for me and it plays fine.