Problems with steam

[Bman123]

I installed the orange box last night and I played portal and TF2 for a couple of hours and everything was great.
I try to play portal today and I get the ole
something is wrong with my local game files message from steam.
i donot know what to do but I cannot play my games and I would like to.If anyone can help I would appreciate it alot thanks guys in advance

 

[Quizard]

Have u tried to reinstall them?

 

[Bman123]

I didn;t know if I would mess something up by deleting then reinstalling the games thru steam.I am new to steam so I just wanna be careful.

 

[videogames101]

It'll be fine, click "delete local system content" or something through steam to delete the game, then reinstall. Also try the "verifying game cache"

 

[Quizard]

Originally posted by: videogames101
Also try the "verifying game cache"

This and you can also defragment the files thru steam as well

 

[Dorkenstein]

I had to delete the clientregistry.blob file in the steam directory and re-start steam to fix a similar problem once. I recommend you delete the file while steam is not open just to be safe.

 

[Bman123]

so delete all the games that came on the orange box.After deleting them re install them and see what happens huh?

I am new to steam so I dont have a clue what is going on.Bioshock and lost planet are still working and I have got them thru steam.I just didn't understand how those 2 worked and the orange box didn't.Man it took a long time to install the orange box but if that is what I have to do then I guess so be it,

 

[Dorkenstein]

I would try deleting the clientregistry.blob file first. When steam re-starts it automatically generates a new one, so no harm done.

 

[Bman123]

where is the client registry.blob located at?
I deleted all the games and now i am re installing them.This way if the re install doesn't work then I can try the client registry blob idea of yours.

 

[Dorkenstein]

It's in the main steam directory.

 

[Bman123]

I uninstalled everything and re installed it all.Now everything is working like it should be