Hello, for a long time my W:A was running properly until a few days ago, now whenever i enter through a shortcut or menu shortcut, W:A instantly crashes and gives me an Access Violation. However i am still able to enter the game through the Main WA.exe, any ideas on what causes this problem?

How does the crash manifest? A standard Windows crash dialog?

I think it was a problem with the registry, because i installed it to an alternate directory and it worked fine, however the previous directory will not work, and yes it shows in a dialog box... but its ok for now, unless it happens again