Antivirus software (especially Avast, AVG, Bitdefender, and even Windows Defender) can intercept the loading of sdhdshipexe and its dependent DLLs, causing partial loading and "entry point not found" errors.

If none of the above works, a deeper system conflict may be at play.

He forced the game to call it via a manual memory jump.

The error " SDHDship.exe - Entry Point Not Found Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition

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