Portal 2 will not start a game or a saved game

413x · 5 Jan 2013 at 14:55

Grr. Getting annoyed again.

Portal 2 will start.. As in I can get to the options screen but about 5 seconds into loading a game it crashes to steam without any warnings.

I was playing it the other day no problems.

Any ideas?

bledd · 5 Jan 2013 at 15:09

try verifying the files

413x · 5 Jan 2013 at 15:24

Just running that now. I really hope I don't have to reinstall. That's days of time for the download

413x · 5 Jan 2013 at 15:29

Failed to validate

j6m · 5 Jan 2013 at 15:41

al4x said:
Failed to validate

Try again later; run CHKDSK while you wait.

413x · 5 Jan 2013 at 17:31

It appears to have downloaded a file and now checks out. I am yet to tryit again aas I've been faffing with my server

413x · 5 Jan 2013 at 19:59

bledd. said:
try verifying the files

thanks, i didnt know such a command existed. It download said broken file and now is working fine.

How a file became corrupted or what i will never know