"Could not load library client"

[Permamiss]

Could not load library client. Could not load library client.
Could. Not. Load. Library. Client.
♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. What the hell? I even verified the integrity of the game cache. Ugh.

[PvtNoob]

yea dude somethings wrong with the update. check the other discussions

[Permamiss]

I have been, but I have not seen anything useful.

[PvtNoob]

were getting viruses from the update

[Permamiss]

Thanks, but I've already posted in a thread related to that.

[Felix]

K1llaxXx님이 먼저 게시:

were getting viruses from the update

You think it's an ACTUAL virus and not just a false positive? Cute.

[wickey]

i cant find where to do the preload, someone help?

[Felix]

ToCxWickedRevengex님이 먼저 게시:

i cant find where to do the preload, someone help?

Type "steam://Install/550", without quote marks, into your browser.

[Sunohara]

mine is perpetually stuck on preparing to load the game. whats up?
i understand there should be an update but my client isn't updating

[B0Tzerker]

AVG claims its win32/heur. I think its a false positive but definitely something valve needs to fix.

[Permamiss]

Yeh. Turns out the solution to the problem was disabling AVG Antivirus for 5 minutes (15 minutes & Until Restart are the maximum options; 5 was minimum). Just in case anyone else was having the same problem. :]

[Docta]

Just add the client.dll to you virus checkers exception list and your good to go, on AVG your exceptions list is under Tools>Advanced settings>Resident shield

[Crazy Girl With A Gun]

I got the same thing and tried everything. I verified the game cache, restarted my computer, then ended up re-installing the game. Don't do that. None of it worked. I then looked on here and followed Docta's instructions that are above my comment, even though my husband said he had uninstalled AVG. It was my last resort. I had no idea where to find the client.dll to add it to exceptions, so in case you don't know either, it's in program files/steam/steamapps/common/l4d2/l4d2/bin. It FINALLY works!