Hello there,
It has recently come to our attention that an epidemic is sweeping the Source mod community. Players all across the globe are encountering this error when trying to play their favorite games:
For those of you experiencing this issue, fear not! There
may be a solution.
1. Delete the contents of your steam directory
EXCEPT these files:
- The steamapps folder (and its contents)
- Steam.exe
2. Run Steam.exe
- Steam will redownload all of the files you deleted and verify the contents of your steamapps folder. (Credible sources say this process only takes a couple minutes)
3. Test the game!
*NOTE: This solution does not apply exclusively to PVK2. If you're having this issue in another Source mod, give it a try.
Let's all thank Miggog, our resident genius, for bringing this fix to light.
Until next time!
Your pal,
Peepeewilson
Comments
Anyway, I haven't played source games in a while so I don't know if I have this problem. I will check it out when I have time.
P.S. Never played PVKII, but really just wanted to lend a hand to this annoying mistake by valve.
We appreciate your input, though! Welcome to the forums.
I've forgotten exactly how I did it, it was a little differant but very similar. I think it was something about removing or renaming a .BLOB file or something.
That usually works, but we found lots of people weren't able to fix their problems by deleting that file alone.
And when I looked for a solution for it, I was finding people posting about on boards about the same damn problem, get this, back in like 2003 or so.
Why is such an ancient problem still occurring?
But yup, 8 years in electronic market is really ancient.
Yeah It's awesome that people can't play the game they like
He means the fix, don't he?
Glad to help and remember this is a foolproof fix for a few other errors aswell that might occur in Steam. For example my hammer gets jammed every once in while with an error message "Failed to take Master Pipe Connection lock" and isn't willing to open anymore. No idea where that error comes from but I use this to fix it.
Co-Lead | Level Designer
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps (DONT DELETE ME BROTHER!)
Co-Lead | Level Designer
1. Right-click the effected game in your games list
2. Go to Properties ->Local Files
3. Click "Verify Integrity of Game Cache..."
It will check your files and simply update any corrupted ones.
And for those of you who don't know how to read (I know you're out there) here's a picture:
(note: if you don't know how to count I can't help you)
Remove the "config" folder from "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam". Run Steam, log in (Steam then asks for authorization, so get your e-mail ready) and done. It works.
Rather than deleting everything except steam.exe and the steamapps folder.
That is why I felt the original post was worthy of the front page.