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Bioshock : App is already running

dmegatool
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So I started Bioshock and even played it for a couple of hours this week. Today I got this message from Steam when trying to launch it "App is already running". Anybody already encountered that problem ? 

 

Not much changed since the last time it launched. I installed DS3 Tools, Dexpot, pluggued my bluetooth dongle... that's pretty much it. I unistalled Dexpot but nothing changed.

 

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well, is it already running?^^

check your task manager.

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Happens to me occasionally. You just need to wait till steam "offically" stops the game from running. Takes a couple seconds.

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So I started Bioshock and even played it for a couple of hours this week. Today I got this message from Steam when trying to launch it "App is already running". Anybody already encountered that problem ? 

 

Not much changed since the last time it launched. I installed DS3 Tools, Dexpot, pluggued my bluetooth dongle... that's pretty much it. I unistalled Dexpot but nothing changed.

Restart you computer....
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Well, that happens to me too. But, not with games, with windows software. I as downloading Windows 8 and suddenly. Something happens and it says, it's already running even if it's not. Checked out my TM, it's not running.

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well, is it already running?^^

check your task manager.

^this

 

usually either it's the game.exe or SteamUI, some processes might not quit as expected and you have to lay your mighty taskmanager to smack 'em around a bit

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Ok thanks for suggesting to check if it's running xD

Obviously I restarted the computer... But still. There's nothing in the task manager either. Also, all other games work. Its just Bioshock.

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1. Verify game files

2. Check task manager (under processes not applications)

3. Delete and reinstall game

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All done. Nothing can make it work. I'll continue to try obscures solutions found online...

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Solved ! 

 

Well.. kind of. There's been of update of steam and after that it started working again. So I guess unistalling and reinstalling would have been the solution. Who knows. 

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