Crashing on Startup - fixed by reinstalling Steam

Rydus · Post by **Rydus** » Wed, 19. Jun 13, 13:21

Hi, was playing the game, when my one year old daughter thought it would be fun to press my pc's restart button. Now when I start it through steam its doesn't even get into the pregame menu. Doesn't show a error message or anything, windows just says its stopped working.

Post by **CBJ** » Wed, 19. Jun 13, 13:52

Normally I'd ask for more information, specifically the information requested in the very first thread in this forum, but I think it's fairly clear from your report that something has got corrupted by the sudden restart. I suggest you start by running Steam's file verification, by right-clicking on the game in the Steam client and choosing Properties, Local Files, Verify Integrity of Game Cache. That should sort out any game-specific corruption. It won't, however, solve any corruption relating to other parts of your system. It's possible, for example, that the restart could have corrupted a driver or other Windows component.

Rydus · Post by **Rydus** » Wed, 19. Jun 13, 13:53

already done that, even reinstalled game

arnak · Post by **arnak** » Wed, 19. Jun 13, 14:18

Hi,

Go to the command line box and type in sfc /scannow that will check and repair any corrupted windows files.

Arnak

ranger00 · Post by **ranger00** » Wed, 19. Jun 13, 16:37

Hi i am having the same problems as Rydus and have done both what CBJ and arnak have told him to do with no results can i get some more help.

the game is X3 AP 3.0 with bonus pack

Post by **Alan Phipps** » Wed, 19. Jun 13, 16:42

@ ranger00: Unless you also have daughter who pressed your computer's restart button mid-game then I suggest that you start your own new thread in Tech Sp after reading the first Announcement on this forum. Then we can probably give you some more meaningful assistance.

Magelan55 · Post by **Magelan55** » Wed, 19. Jun 13, 16:43

Same here, since this afternoon, i can't play either TC or AP.

I have the beta version of steam and this morning there was an update on steam.

But I can play other game on steam.

When I start the game, I can't go to the launcher screen.

Post by **Alan Phipps** » Wed, 19. Jun 13, 16:51

@ Magelan55: Same advice as to ranger00 although use of a Beta version of Steam doesn't sound like a good basis for further investigation of your system. Can you reproduce the issue on normal Steam?

Magelan55 · Post by **Magelan55** » Wed, 19. Jun 13, 18:29

It's ok now, seems there was a problem between X3 and the beta version of steam.

Post by **Alan Phipps** » Wed, 19. Jun 13, 18:53

@ Magelan55: Please report the Steam Beta issue with X3 back to Valve. Thanks.

Rydus · Post by **Rydus** » Thu, 20. Jun 13, 00:20

Well after alot of f'ing around I decided just to reinstall steam and it works. Yay for that lol.

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Crashing on Startup - fixed by reinstalling Steam

Crashing on Startup - fixed by reinstalling Steam

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