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doughphunghus
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You mentioned above that "....the only fix ive found is to restart and open the game before doing anything else. when i finaly do get in and either try to join a server or make my own it comes up with a bunch of errors and just sits at initializing.", which makes me think that the game can ( for some reason) get past the loading of Localization.txt, but then other errors happen. There was a comments above about possible memory or "Disk" corruption (an SSD can go bad, but I would think it would self heal...but maybe it doesn't, and I believe I've heard they normally "go bad" all at once, not gradually.). I would definitely also recommend looking into running a memtest for memory errors, and a disk scan for disk issues. For a "me too" comparison: I've (super rarely) had odd issues like this occur to me and it turned out to be a bad memory stick/area of memory. The bad memory was corrupting files in a game I was playing (apparently, I guess it saved them to disk as I played?) and every time the game failed to start, I had steam validate files it would always find a few that failed to validate...then the game would start and run awhile...then it would crash. My PC worked fine (mostly) until I started playing games with it, and then (I guess) the large memory usage of the game would trigger/access/hit some bad memory address(es), and crash it. I ran a memtest and errors started appearing as it scanned. I just replaced the memory sticks, and no more issues.
What's weird (to me) is its complaining about the same file every time (It's consistent). What I don't know is if the error is actually "correct" in that we don't know if the game is actually trying to to open that specific file and getting the error ( e.g. it could open other files in that directory, then fails on just that one file) OR if it's hitting permission errors "higher up" and that's the file its trying to open at that time, so it reports the entire file path instead of the actual folder its having issues with. Alternatively: Maybe Localization.txt is physically corrupted and it literally cannot open it properly, so it fails with an error that makes it look like its a permissions issue. A lot of the ideas that @meganoth mentions above should alleviate that possibility though.
Other ideas that are a little "out there" but the answers might help diagnose:
- Is this your personal PC, or are you using someone else's? Purpose: Making sure you have full control over the PC, someone's not blocking you as admin (owning the antivirus, etc) or literally messing with you.
- Does your windows account you log in with have Administrator rights?
- Has this PC been patched recently (e.g. windows updates were applied). Like the game ran, then it was patched, then the issue appeared? Windows may have reset some setting...somewhere.
- The error is with the Localization.txt file. In my game (that loads ok) the "next line" in my logfile after "INF [Steamworks.NET] SteamAPI_Init() ok"
is: "<timestamp> INF Localization language: english". I'm really reaching here, but are you launching the game using "Engligh" or another language? To check the language chosen: (from stream choose the game (right click) -> properties -> Language))
- How old are your disks/SSD's/memory? Are you using any "reused" parts? You mention "uninstalled and reinstalled on a different hardrive" but I'm not sure if you physically attached/changed a physical hard drive out or just pointed to a different existing internal hard drive letter on the PC (which could actually be the same hard drive behind the scenes?)
What's weird (to me) is its complaining about the same file every time (It's consistent). What I don't know is if the error is actually "correct" in that we don't know if the game is actually trying to to open that specific file and getting the error ( e.g. it could open other files in that directory, then fails on just that one file) OR if it's hitting permission errors "higher up" and that's the file its trying to open at that time, so it reports the entire file path instead of the actual folder its having issues with. Alternatively: Maybe Localization.txt is physically corrupted and it literally cannot open it properly, so it fails with an error that makes it look like its a permissions issue. A lot of the ideas that @meganoth mentions above should alleviate that possibility though.
Other ideas that are a little "out there" but the answers might help diagnose:
- Is this your personal PC, or are you using someone else's? Purpose: Making sure you have full control over the PC, someone's not blocking you as admin (owning the antivirus, etc) or literally messing with you.
- Does your windows account you log in with have Administrator rights?
- Has this PC been patched recently (e.g. windows updates were applied). Like the game ran, then it was patched, then the issue appeared? Windows may have reset some setting...somewhere.
- The error is with the Localization.txt file. In my game (that loads ok) the "next line" in my logfile after "INF [Steamworks.NET] SteamAPI_Init() ok"
is: "<timestamp> INF Localization language: english". I'm really reaching here, but are you launching the game using "Engligh" or another language? To check the language chosen: (from stream choose the game (right click) -> properties -> Language))
- How old are your disks/SSD's/memory? Are you using any "reused" parts? You mention "uninstalled and reinstalled on a different hardrive" but I'm not sure if you physically attached/changed a physical hard drive out or just pointed to a different existing internal hard drive letter on the PC (which could actually be the same hard drive behind the scenes?)
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