Can't Start a game

[Dust902]

Every time I try to start a game it goes through the loading screen and then exits to the desktop . What's going on?

[AZM]

Same issue, any help would be greatly appreciated in this matter.

[Silent Arts]

Yep, just noticed this today as well. Fix this Valve.

[BennyWheelie]

Me three. Using Elementary OS, AMD 14.2 beta drivers and the 3.13.5 kernel.

[r1348]

Same here on Fedora, it appears the start script portal2.sh is bugged

[st3vie]

I had to explicitly opt-in to the beta on the "betas" tab for this game. After doing this it started downloading again for 45MB or so and now I'm able to start the game!

Good luck!

EDIT: Ubuntu 13.10
EDIT2: This "fix" seems to be the main solution for most people that is also talked about in the "Portal 2 for Linux" thread

[r1348]

Yes, the same here, notice that on Fedora selinux will block the execution because it tries to create an executable heap memory. As a temporary solution you can run "setsebool -P selinuxuser_execheap 1" to allow exec heap, but Valve should really fix that as it isn't exactly safe...

[KGB ate my bread]

Same, fresh install of windows 8, latest drivers, and the game keeps crashing. Verified integrity of game files and still happens.

will try the beta thing and see what happens

[KGB ate my bread]

Opprinnelig skrevet av st3vie:

I had to explicitly opt-in to the beta on the "betas" tab for this game. After doing this it started downloading again for 45MB or so and now I'm able to start the game!

Good luck!

EDIT: using Ubuntu 13.10

This fixed it for me on Windows 8/8.1, thanks.

[zolomangoman]

I just wrote this to finish the ABZEICHEN!

[J4un7y]

I've got the same issue. Somethimes the game just crashes without any mesage. I've got Windows 8.

[Robot]

I don't understand the answer or anything. Not even sure if I've intirely got the same problem.

[Athelstan]

Had the same problem, if you have raptr installed is that, i uninstalled and all works perfectly.

[JAZ]

Mine won't start at all today. Get installation % (had game for years) then "steam too busy to process" error 53

[st3vie]

Opprinnelig skrevet av JAZ:

Mine won't start at all today. Get installation % (had game for years) then "steam too busy to process" error 53

Did you had a look at this page yet?
https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=5483-YUFN-0521

[JAZ]

Opprinnelig skrevet av st3vie:

Opprinnelig skrevet av JAZ:

Mine won't start at all today. Get installation % (had game for years) then "steam too busy to process" error 53

Did you had a look at this page yet?
https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=5483-YUFN-0521

Thanks that worked, but it's odd, the link that came up when the error happened was different and didn't offer that solution.