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Weird problem with steam game

FandyienFandyien But Otto, what about us? Registered User regular
edited July 2007 in Help / Advice Forum
So I just bought and downloaded Gish off steam for $7.00, and whenever I try to start the game, I receive this error-

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Has anyone ever had this problem? Should I just talk to Steam customer support when I get home from work?

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  • FibretipFibretip Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    I had this with HL episode one. I had to redownload it and then it worked.
    I also had it with HL episode one again when i tried to play it in offline mode, connecting, running it, then going to offline mode again worked.

    contact them though yeah, both the above where what the support guys suggested for that particular game.

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  • FandyienFandyien But Otto, what about us? Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Well, it turns out Steam Support doesn't apply directly to third party games, and the general troubleshooting manuals are way too technical for me.

    Anyone have any ideas as to how I can fix this? My seven dollars feel...wasted.

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  • ShadeShade Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    usually due to corruption, if its steam downloaded and based, then run the file verifier. If that doesn't work reinstall. Also you might what to test the drive to make sure there are no failures.

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  • FandyienFandyien But Otto, what about us? Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    I tried verifying the files and defragmenting them - Steam gave me a message saying Gish had been optimized. This was after I installed new drivers and reinstalled the game twice, and I'm still getting the same error message.

    Anyone have any other ideas? I really want to play this game.

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  • ShadeShade Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    possibly a bad sector on your HDD? Try using the windows check disk tool.

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