The game fails to launch. This the error code I get:
[1023/122223.652:ERROR:directory_reader_win.cc(43)] FindFirstFile: The system cannot find the path specified. (0x3)
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Drawing attention to your issue.
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You might have to delete your directory file. That also happened to me with HoI 4 when I forgot to delete my directory.
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Try to go in this section and completely delete the democracy 4 folder.
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Unfortunately, Iām not as tech savvy as you all are. I can figure some stuff out, but a more detailed explanation would be much appreciated! I do not have a democracy 4 folder in my documents folder.
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It needs to be this folder with āMy Gamesā click it and it should say something about democracy 4.
So when you open āThis PCā, you can either access documents by writting āDocumentsā and pressing enter in the large bar on top, alternatively you can try to look to the left panel that displays āDocumentsā. (In case you didnāt know that already.) And then try to move that demo 4 folder to the desktop and try to start the game.
Iām sorry if this wasnāt of help, I believe this gentleman can help @cliffski
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Maybe this is the problem then, because I do not have a My Games folder in Documents.
Figured it out!! The My Games folder wasnāt showing on my PC, but it was in my OneDrive ā Documents. I couldnāt see it until I opened OneDrive on a browser. I deleted the Democracy 4 folder from there and it worked. Thanks so much for your help!
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Thereās many games who doesnāt function properly if the documents folder is outdated or corrupted.
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I so hate āonedriveā. You would think that a new cloud storage system by microsoft, running on a microsoft o/s would not cause issues with microsoft API calls to simple read and write files butā¦ no. Its a complete trainwreck 
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So far Cliff, Iāve seen this problem occur on our offline documents storage and not onedrive.
Didnāt know it was so bad. 
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