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Steam games breaking over time

Maximilian

Maximilian

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Anyone else get this? Not playing an installed steam game for a few months then going back to it and it wont start or theres issues with it that werent there before? Garrys mod wont load for me and L4D2 disconnects me to the lobby after 30 seconds in 5 of the 6 games ive tried.

Most annoying thing here is i dont know what the hell broke these games, some update that happened a while ago? Something i installed? Who knows...

Im gonna try verifying the game cache and see if that helps.
 
I have also detected this. I always make a backup of my games from steam. So I usually just delete it and reinstall the backup, then let it update. I dont know what cause it. But it is frustrating. If you verify the game cache, and there is a file that is corrupt, it says it will download it, but usually it never does.
 
It's done this to me in Borderlands numerous times, & a couple other games too.
 
No idea but I have a bunch of LucasArts games (also, Call of Juarez) that won't play correctly. The LucasArts games are apparently too old to work with Win7 (kotor/kotor2 are too old? seriously?) but I don't know what's wrong with Call of Juarez. I've tried verifying cache, redownloading them, I dunno what else to try. So frustrating!
 
Well it happened to me in GTR evoluion\race 07, but I tracked that down to updating drivers. I have to delete the setup inf whenever I update drivers.
 
Well i got garrys mod to work, turns out all it needed was patience, never took this long to load before ah well, good to know its not just me this happens to.
 
Nik said:
No idea but I have a bunch of LucasArts games (also, Call of Juarez) that won't play correctly. The LucasArts games are apparently too old to work with Win7 (kotor/kotor2 are too old? seriously?) but I don't know what's wrong with Call of Juarez. I've tried verifying cache, redownloading them, I dunno what else to try. So frustrating!
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That's odd, as I've had KOTOR2 (non-steam) running on windows 7 before.
 
Nope, no problems here. Fired up boderlands yesterday for the first time in a couple of month's and no problems. Sometimes I do not play left 4 dead for 2 or 3 months, played it 2 weeks ago and no problems.

OP - do you have all of your games set up "keep up to date"?
 
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Nik said:
No idea but I have a bunch of LucasArts games (also, Call of Juarez) that won't play correctly. The LucasArts games are apparently too old to work with Win7 (kotor/kotor2 are too old? seriously?) but I don't know what's wrong with Call of Juarez. I've tried verifying cache, redownloading them, I dunno what else to try. So frustrating!
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Actually I had a lot of issues with Kotor 2 and especially Kotor installing on W7, without steam. I wasn't the only one either.

Some games are just a pain to get working on newer machines even if they aren't that "old".
 
Nik said:
No idea but I have a bunch of LucasArts games (also, Call of Juarez) that won't play correctly. The LucasArts games are apparently too old to work with Win7 (kotor/kotor2 are too old? seriously?) but I don't know what's wrong with Call of Juarez. I've tried verifying cache, redownloading them, I dunno what else to try. So frustrating!
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Kotor works for me. No problem. Running Windows 7 Ultimate x64.
 
Nik said:
No idea but I have a bunch of LucasArts games (also, Call of Juarez) that won't play correctly. The LucasArts games are apparently too old to work with Win7 (kotor/kotor2 are too old? seriously?) but I don't know what's wrong with Call of Juarez. I've tried verifying cache, redownloading them, I dunno what else to try. So frustrating!
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I tried re-installing KotOR the other day from my original discs. I quickly remembered the pain and agony of getting that to work on my rig--2 builds previous to this one--(with Radeon 9600XT, lol).

such a buggy game when it was new.

and in Win7 64bit, now? lol. Crashed before it could load. I started searching for the fixes--I don't think it's worth my time. hah.



basically, reinstalling with admin privileges, shutting off some of the opening movies, pasting in some modded files, blah blah blah.
 
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anyway, as to the subject, I've occasionally had problems with the steam client after an update. It will lock trying to update itself, and you could never open up the main page.

It seems to be a common problem. I forget the keys, but you just tap tab or F5 or something to skip that process when it loads, and the problem goes away after that.

I think people have also had a few problems since the win7 SP1 update.
 
It's more than likely due to some Windows update or driver update that causes something in the game to not work properly, and since the games are old, they aren't being updated regularly to correct the problem that the update caused.

Also, I don't have any problems with KOTOR on Win 7. I'm using a cracked exe from gamecopyworld because the widescreen mod that allows me to run the game at 1080p doesn't work with the steam exe. I don't know if that makes it work better than the steam version or not as I never played it with the steam exe.
 
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simonizor said:
It's more than likely due to some Windows update or driver update that causes something in the game to not work properly, and since the games are old, they aren't being updated regularly to correct the problem that the update caused.

Also, I don't have any problems with KOTOR on Win 7. I'm using a cracked exe from gamecopyworld because the widescreen mod that allows me to run the game at 1080p doesn't work with the steam exe. I don't know if that makes it work better than the steam version or not as I never played it with the steam exe.
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64 bit? dual/quad core?

KotOR crashes to desktop after the Bioware logo, for me.
 
I had an issue with Steam recently, probably unrelated to yours but thought it might be nice to share in case anyone else ever encounters this.

I have Windows installed on an SSD and everything else on a secondary hard drive. This way it's easier when I format Windows and re-install everything. Usually when I format my OS drive, I just leave Steam where it's at, then re-install the Steam client once I get Windows up and running again.

I've never had an issue doing this until my latest re-format a couple weeks ago. I tried to update Mass Effect 1, but it wouldn't do it because it couldn't find the CD key. I couldn't install any of the DLCs either for the same reason. I had launched the game and played it, but it didn't create the right registry keys like it was supposed to. I ended up doing it manually and thought all was well. Then I tried to launch Fallout: NV, but it wouldn't detect the game. The only option I had in the launcher was "Install", which obviously didn't work because it's the Steam version.

I did some digging on the Steam forums and ran across someone that suggested picking the "Check for Steam client updates..." option in the client. I did that, Steam said everything was up to date, but a few seconds later it came back and said that the Steam Client Service wasn't running. I told it to install it (took a while, about 15 minutes) and everything has been great since then. I'm guessing the service gives Steam permission to do the things it needs to do in Windows.

So something to be aware of - I've never even noticed that windows service being there.
 
Can't directly say this has happened to me since I swapped out my video card twice within the past year (like exactly before the 1 year mark). I've had Metro 2033 and Fallout Vegas go "bad" at the launcher. Once they made it into the game, they worked fine. They just stall at the launcher or during the logos.
 
KaOTiK said:
I have no problems with KotOR as well.

Windows 7 64, 2x Xeno quad cores, 480 gtx
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well, I did get it running by first disabling movies in the initial config screen and played through the opening.

that gets the game to not crash during startup. Of course, that turns off all the in-game movies--story-as well.

also can't turn on particle effects or shadows, or the game locks up (black screen with audio). can max out AA and Anisotropic filtering, and bump resolution to 1600x1240, or whatever is that max default res.

enabling hardware mouse doesn't seem to hurt me as it does others, but the main character will frequently lock up after ending a battle or picking up an item. I can save, quit, then reload to fix that, but it occurs some 60% of the time after battle or activating a crate or picking up an item.

I remember these bugs, not sure how I had the patience to get through them before, heh.

I think there are easier fixes for the lockup and movie issue, I'll see if I can find it.
 
I learned not to keep too many games installed. Updates over time with a lot of games installed is too much exposure.
 
Steam has three key files and if they become corrupted your games will not load. All you have to do it delete them and restart steam which forces it to update and repair itself.
 
I havent had this issue either, and on the weekend i actually fired up some games i havent played in years and they worked fine.
 
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