Portal 2 doesn&#39;t start up

Portal 2 doesn't start up

Mr Waterhandle

88 Posts

Posted Sep 06, 2012

I wasn't sure were this should go, but the problem might be Hammer related, so uh.

So since yesterday, Portal 2 decided it doesn't want to start up anymore. It seems to start up, and I either watch or skip the Valve intro movie, it shows the loading screen (but not loading) and then it crashes.

The only thing that's new is some of the updates, and that I installed the Portal 2 Beta Authoring Tools the day before. I have tried verifying my game cache twice, but it says nothing's wrong. What's next?

FelixGriffin

2,680 Posts

#85835

Posted Sep 06, 2012

Replied 2 hours later

That sounds like what just happened to me! Did you recently add any assets recently, even without them being used in the level? (For me it was a custom music file.)

Mr Waterhandle

88 Posts

#85845

Posted Sep 06, 2012

Replied 6 hours later

I haven't even started up the authoring tools for the first time yet, so no.

wrathofmobius

216 Posts

#85909

Posted Sep 07, 2012

Replied 1 day later

Have you tried verifying both your game cache and your tool cache? Idk if that would be a problem but you can't be too safe

ChickenMobile

2,460 Posts

#85924

Posted Sep 08, 2012

Replied 8 hours later

Mr Waterhandle wrote:
I have tried verifying my game cache twice, but it says nothing's wrong. What's next?

rock_n_rage

168 Posts

#85934

Posted Sep 08, 2012

Replied 2 hours later

Mr Waterhandle wrote:
I wasn't sure were this should go, but the problem might be Hammer related, so uh.

So since yesterday, Portal 2 decided it doesn't want to start up anymore. It seems to start up, and I either watch or skip the Valve intro movie, it shows the loading screen (but not loading) and then it crashes.

The only thing that's new is some of the updates, and that I installed the Portal 2 Beta Authoring Tools the day before. I have tried verifying my game cache twice, but it says nothing's wrong. What's next?

Are possibly running on a Mac? There was an issue for Mac users a few weeks ago. They put out a fix that corrected the problem. When I tried load any level, the game was crashing.....all better now!

Mr Waterhandle

88 Posts

#85936

Posted Sep 08, 2012

Replied 28 minutes later

Actually I was wrong before, I'm pretty sure I only verified my tool cache.

But yesterday I deinstalled the authoring tools, and verified my game cache, and it found quite a few files. Now the game works again. Thanks everyone.

And no, I'm not using a Mac.

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