TL;DR Steam's an asshole that doesn't like me
Does anyone a solution they could post before I curb stomp my computer? (I'm using Windows 7 for any who were wondering)
I know that was allot to read so here's a picture of a kitten as an apology

Graham wrote:The point is: Nyeh nyeh nyeh. I'm an old man.
LRRcast wrote:Paul: That does not answer that question at all.
James: Who cares about that question? That's a good answer.
AdmiralMemo wrote:Can you delete local content on Spec Ops and then try installing again?
Graham wrote:The point is: Nyeh nyeh nyeh. I'm an old man.
LRRcast wrote:Paul: That does not answer that question at all.
James: Who cares about that question? That's a good answer.
Jimor wrote:Sounds like the shutdown during an operation might have gotten something out of synch for how your computer reports memory. Might have to do a disc scan and/or defrag to clear things up.
empath wrote:Jimor's got a point - you might wanna take an hour or two aside (preferably while you don't need the computer for anything) and run Error-checking on that hard drive.
Myrph wrote:As Steam likes to regularly corrupt itself at the drop of a hat, there's a remarkably simple way of smacking it upside the head and telling it to get its act together.
Please note, as drastic as the following advice may seem, it does work and is recommended by Steam support as a solution for some more troublesome issue.
Open 'My Computer' and on the hard drive you have Steam installed, find the Steam directory (something like C:\Program Files\Steam). Among other things, it should contain the main Steam.exe executable and a folder called SteamApps. These two items are important as they are where all your games are saved and the programme you need to run to play them.
Now here comes the fun step. In the Steam directory, select absolutely everything EXCEPT Steam.exe and the SteamApps folder and delete it. At the end all that should remain is one folder, one exe file. Assuming you have a few games installed, if you try to accidentally delete the SteamApps folder it will probably throw up a warning that a file is too large for the Recycle Bin, but be careful all the same, you don't want to have to redownload your entire library.
Now run Steam either through the exe file or through your regular shortcut. When it tries to load, it will notice everything is missing and perform a complete clean reinstall of the client that ought to solve all your problems, without removing all your games at the same time or retaining any old corrupt files.
If at the end things are still screwy, you've got a major problem and you should seek professional help!
empath wrote:Another variant is "copy your \SteamApps folder to another location on your hard drive, then delete everything under \Steam and reinstall Steam itself"; one I did several times while I had issues with DXHR & Steam (and it later turned out my ISP *growl* )
Lyinginbedmon wrote:You are clearly some form of incorporeal undead.
Like a vampire.
But with knives.
Drecon wrote:Ugh, just bought Duels of the Planeswalkers 2014 and guess what, the game crashes on startup... I hope there's gonna be a fix for that soon... I really wanna just play the game.
Myrph wrote:As Steam likes to regularly corrupt itself at the drop of a hat, there's a remarkably simple way of smacking it upside the head and telling it to get its act together.
Please note, as drastic as the following advice may seem, it does work and is recommended by Steam support as a solution for some more troublesome issue.
Open 'My Computer' and on the hard drive you have Steam installed, find the Steam directory (something like C:\Program Files\Steam). Among other things, it should contain the main Steam.exe executable and a folder called SteamApps. These two items are important as they are where all your games are saved and the programme you need to run to play them.
Now here comes the fun step. In the Steam directory, select absolutely everything EXCEPT Steam.exe and the SteamApps folder and delete it. At the end all that should remain is one folder, one exe file. Assuming you have a few games installed, if you try to accidentally delete the SteamApps folder it will probably throw up a warning that a file is too large for the Recycle Bin, but be careful all the same, you don't want to have to redownload your entire library.
Now run Steam either through the exe file or through your regular shortcut. When it tries to load, it will notice everything is missing and perform a complete clean reinstall of the client that ought to solve all your problems, without removing all your games at the same time or retaining any old corrupt files.
If at the end things are still screwy, you've got a major problem and you should seek professional help!
empath wrote:Yeah, I was going to mention this once it had been ascertained that the issue wasn't hardware (thank you scandisk.exe).
Another variant is "copy your \SteamApps folder to another location on your hard drive, then delete everything under \Steam and reinstall Steam itself"; one I did several times while I had issues with DXHR & Steam (and it later turned out my ISP *growl* )
If we're lucky, the interrupted install resulted in creating a bad sector on the hard drive, that Steam kept trying to access (even after deleting the game, it would try to reinstall to the same location on your h/d). the Error-Checking would automatically resolve any bad sectors (try to copy any data to another location and adjust your FAT accordingly, whilst also marking the problem sector in said FAT as "unavailable; just skip it", so THEN, if you wipe Steam and reinstall, it should set itself up around that 'hole in your hard drive' and everything will be hunky-dory. *hope*
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