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Year Of The Emperor Jul 24, 2013 @ 6:02pm

Payday 2 Not Starting Up

Just got the beta, says I'm in game for about two seconds and then nothing happens.
Tried verifying the cache and nothing. Is it me or steam?

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phoenix123i Jul 24, 2013 @ 6:15pm

One of my friends is having the same problem too. Have you been able to find any solution to that?

Syphari Jul 24, 2013 @ 6:26pm

Having the same problem

Syphari Jul 24, 2013 @ 6:37pm

These are the most frequently encountered solutions when the PAYDAY 2 beta doesn't work. You can try these things and see if they help:

1. Try verifying the integrity of the game cache:
1a) Go open up your Steam client program and go to the "LIBRARY" section
1b) Right-click Payday in the list of games to the left - a drop-down menu will appear
1c) Click the menu option "Properties" at the very bottom of the drop-down menu - a dialog box will appear
1d) Click the "LOCAL FILES" tab in the upper part of the dialog box
1e) Click the third button that reads "VERIFY INTEGRITY OF GAME CACHE..."

2. Make sure you don't have an anti virus program that runs in sleep mode and has PAYDAY 2 beta on its "malicious software" list - it might be blocking the exe when it's trying to run.

3. If none of that works, uninstall, redownload and reinstall the game.
3a) When you uninstall, please be sure to manually delete all the files that are left in your PAYDAY 2 Beta folder. Steam doesn't automatically delete these files and they can sometimes cause problems. These files are usually located in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\PAYDAY 2 Beta