Failed to initialize Sard. Exitting.

[DumSAS 5]

Hello everyone
Last time I used my laptop was for playing APB a couple days ago. Today, when I run it again, was trying to yet again play APB but after I press "play" button in launcher - nothing happens. Tried fresh reinstalling the game on another drive since I wanted to do this long time ago, but no result. After I checked game logs I found out that SARD can not initialise and game closes. Here are last log file lines:

08:38:42 - Init: APB game exe identifier: Release_USER 1-30-0_COFFEE@844857 Inst:0
08:38:42 - Init: Presizing for 200000 objects not considered by GC, pre-allocating 31457280 bytes.
08:38:42 - Init: Presizing for 400000 objects in StaticMap, pre-allocating 94371840 bytes.
08:38:42 - Init: Object subsystem initialized
08:38:43 - Error: Failed to initialize Sard. Exitting.
08:38:43 - Log: appRequestExit(0)
08:38:43 - Exit: Exiting.
08:38:43 - Log: Log file closed, 06/09/24 11:38:43

Did anyone encounter that type of errors? Is there any way to reinstall SARD? I cant find it in control panels' app list
No mods or configs were used, just vanilla apb
Thanks in advance

Edited September 6 by DumSAS

[DumSAS 5]

Just in case someone has same issue
I've contacted SARD support via discord, they responded pretty quickly
They told me to confirm if my SARD directory has armour.dll file in there
%gamepath%\APB Reloaded\Binaries\Sard
It wasnt there
So long story short, they gave me a link for this exact dll and I manually downloaded it and put into SARD directory in game
Link if someone needs it:
https://cdn.sard.ac/armour/64/3.0.1.10/armour.dll

idk if I can post it here but its official SARD domain
Hope that helps anyone who is experiencing this problem

[Azukii 92]

Hello,

As this issue has been resolved, I have moved this topic to the Resolved PC Bugs & Tech Issues section of our forums.

Thank you for sharing the solution!

 

- Azukii