boris777

I've just had this problem and managed to solve it. I too tried to spring clean some of the start up programs and services on my machine that I thought were unnecessary. Basically you need to ensure that 'GameConsoleService' and 'FLEXnet Licensing Service' are present in the Services tab of task manager. (or possibly only one of those. I'm not exactly sure because I disabled/re-enabled them both at the same time) The way I originally disabled them was with a tool called autoruns.exe so all I had to do was recheck the boxes I had unchecked next to these services. But if you've used some kind of auto-sweeper thats disabled them then duck knows. It's probably best to reinstall.