Steam wont launch games

[hardtofindinthefuture]

 Title says it all

Steam wont load 

gta 3 

or vice city

but my other games will load

 

i keep clicking the shortcut and they just wont load!

 

 

[Yatys 93]

2 minutes ago, v0nn_toaster said:

 Title says it all

Steam wont load 

gta 3 

or vice city

but my other games will load

 

i keep clicking the shortcut and they just wont load!

 

 

Assuming you bought them off of steam, you can try right clicking the title in your library and going to properties, then local files, then verify integrity, that fixed the same problem for me a couple times, failing that, redownload ?

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1 minute ago, Yatys 93 said:

Assuming you bought them off of steam, you can try right clicking the title in your library and going to properties, then local files, then verify integrity, that fixed the same problem for me a couple times, failing that, redownload ?

Once I had an issue where I had copied over the game files and installed by just validating so I didn't need to download the whole thing again, and the game would open but would crash as soon as the 3D stuff started.  I eventually fixed it be deleting a file and then re-validating again, which for some reason did a more thorough re-validation/install (I guess?)

[Yatys 93]

1 minute ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

Once I had an issue where I had copied over the game files and installed by just validating so I didn't need to download the whole thing again, and the game would open but would crash as soon as the 3D stuff started.  I eventually fixed it be deleting a file and then re-validating again, which for some reason did a more thorough re-validation/install (I guess?)

I had a similar issue when I switched to windows 10, didn't have a legit win 7 copy so bought 10 off of amazon, also meant I could get rid of the 64gb ssd I was using at the time, my copy of gtav didn't work, validated and steam started a 50gb download to replace parts of the file, seem to do the trick if its just a issue with the game folder, other than that not entirely sure what it is doing

[hardtofindinthefuture]

17 minutes ago, Yatys 93 said:

Assuming you bought them off of steam, you can try right clicking the title in your library and going to properties, then local files, then verify integrity, that fixed the same problem for me a couple times, failing that, redownload ?

i did the verify integrity and it still didn't launch

[hardtofindinthefuture]

I dont want to reinstall because ill loose my game saves.

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17 minutes ago, v0nn_toaster said:

I dont want to reinstall because ill loose my game saves.

There's no reason for that.  Steam manages those for most games now automatically and even cloud syncs them for you, but in the event this game does not do that, you can just back them up normally.

[hardtofindinthefuture]

2 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

There's no reason for that.  Steam manages those for most games now automatically and even cloud syncs them for you, but in the event this game does not do that, you can just back them up normally.

so if i did back my files up do i uninstall steam, or the games that arent working

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1 minute ago, v0nn_toaster said:

so if i did back my files up do i uninstall steam, or the games that arent working

Well before you go to that extent, did you try rebooting?

[hardtofindinthefuture]

Just now, Ryan_Vickers said:

Well before you go to that extent, did you try rebooting?

yes many times

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14 minutes ago, v0nn_toaster said:

yes many times

I'd look into common troubleshooting tips for the games, and if none of that yields anything, then reinstall the game.  Keep in mind my trick from above though so you don't need to re-download everything:

56 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

Once I had an issue where I had copied over the game files and installed by just validating so I didn't need to download the whole thing again, and the game would open but would crash as soon as the 3D stuff started.  I eventually fixed it be deleting a file and then re-validating again, which for some reason did a more thorough re-validation/install (I guess?)

 

[hardtofindinthefuture]

Just now, Ryan_Vickers said:

Once I had an issue where I had copied over the game files and installed by just validating so I didn't need to download the whole thing again, and the game would open but would crash as soon as the 3D stuff started.  I eventually fixed it be deleting a file and then re-validating again, which for some reason did a more thorough re-validation/install (I guess?)

so do i delete a random file in the Vice city game files that verify the game cache?

 

Does that like repair the game?

[Mira Yurizaki]

1 hour ago, v0nn_toaster said:

I dont want to reinstall because ill loose my game saves.

Uninstalling games doesn't touch the save files because they live in your user folder, unless for some reason the save files live within the game itself. And even then, it usually doesn't touch the save files.

[hardtofindinthefuture]

 Well, i uninstalled gta vice city and reinstalled it

and it does the same thing

Not launch

 

 

 

Does buying the steam key from G2A have anything to do with it because, i have played it for hours before 

and when i registered it, it was valid

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2 hours ago, v0nn_toaster said:

so do i delete a random file in the Vice city game files that verify the game cache?

 

Does that like repair the game?

yes, exactly

[hardtofindinthefuture]

13 hours ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

yes, exactly

I tried that, i even reinstalled vice city. Still doesnt launch

[hardtofindinthefuture]

This has been happening and i cant seem to figure it out

 

i bought GTA 3 and GTA Vice city from G2A and the keys were valid and i played the games for 3 hours

but now when i click the shortcut or even the EXE file they say running then dont load

 

I have tried:

Verifying game cache

Reinstalling the games

Reinstalling steam

 

i only have windows defender

 

and for some reason the games did this after i changed my desktop background

 

This issue is really starting to piss me off

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1 hour ago, v0nn_toaster said:

I tried that, i even reinstalled vice city. Still doesnt launch

Hm, I am out of ideas then

[Mira Yurizaki]

Let's cut the problem in half. Is it just GTA 3 and Vice City or is it Steam in general?

[hardtofindinthefuture]

Just now, M.Yurizaki said:

Let's cut the problem in half. Is it just GTA 3 and Vice City or is it Steam in general?

this is what happens

Steam 10_18_2017 11_10_52 AM.mp4

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[Tech22]

Check task manager background tasks, see if steam client bootstrapper is there. Kill it, then open steam - forcing it to update, this may help. Then reinstall game. 

 

Had this issue before, fixed itself with a steam update, but if that doesn't work:

 

Update windows (if you can or reinstall) then reinstall steam then reinstall the game. After that you should be good.

[hardtofindinthefuture]

16 minutes ago, Tech22 said:

then reinstall steam then reinstall the game

I tried that it didnt work