Game just deleted itself

[Raskolnikov]

just had a 1.4gb update and after it updated it said verifying game files and now its re downloading the whole game. i checked my game files and theres nothing there. i was like 20 hours in and idk if my saves are still there. whole game was just deleted

[loryripsome]

Originally posted by twitch_loryripsome:

HI all I had this same problem this morning. I was able to fix it WITHOUT having to redownload the game. I first had to free up some space on my C drive and then I had to launch the game from the files location for me it goes like this local C >>>Program Files (x86) >>> Steam >>> steamapps >>> common >>> Cyberpunk 2077 once you get to this file click on the one with the cyperpunk logo and the game should launch (or at least it did for me) good luck all!

After closing the game I tried to reopen it through steam and it was showing it was uninstalled again. I did some more digging and found that if you install the game again where the you already know that it is installed steam will just detect the files that are already there it took maybe 2 mins for this to happen and now the game is showing installed again.
Hope this helps

[Tan642]

sounds like the common gta5 bug, where the manifest is lost. there should be an "appmanifest_1091500.acf" in steamlibrary/steamapps, that's the one for cyberpunk.

maybe try to copy this and put it in there, if it's different. (mind, i'm german, i just changed german to english in last line). if the appmanifest is not there, try to find another one and just copy paste this and change the number in file name to 1091500. do backup of your manifest before trying this.

"AppState"
{
"appid" "1091500"
"Universe" "1"
"name" "Cyberpunk 2077"
"StateFlags" "1030"
"installdir" "Cyberpunk 2077"
"LastUpdated" "1607790342"
"UpdateResult" "0"
"SizeOnDisk" "72344949855"
"buildid" "5950343"
"LastOwner" "0"
"BytesToDownload" "1808946528"
"BytesDownloaded" "0"
"AutoUpdateBehavior" "0"
"AllowOtherDownloadsWhileRunning" "0"
"ScheduledAutoUpdate" "0"
"StagingFolder" "0"
"InstalledDepots"
{
"1091501"
{
"manifest" "5397398694765825708"
"size" "64096812495"
}
"1091506"
{
"manifest" "5133249204516847825"
"size" "5058187264"
}
"1495710"
{
"manifest" "4956579465827510258"
"size" "3189950096"
"dlcappid" "1495710"
}
}
"SharedDepots"
{
"228988" "228980"
}
"UserConfig"
{
"language" "english"
}
}

edit: changed "lastowner" to 0, use your own number from another manifest.acf

[Chumski]

I just woke up to this same problem minus the update. I just woke up to play on my day off after playing all night, and despite me already having the game installed and having a shortcut, it said that it needed to reinstall? Mind you playing on a PC.

[Xeclipsewolf]

Yep my game just deleted itself off my steam, I had 70 hours into the game. I come home from work and go to play it, and it says I need to install the game ???? Wtf

[space]

reinstall and it will discover existing files.

[Doctor Go-Go]

Originally posted by ShappeRR:

Same thing just happened to me.Fck CD PR what a amateur company

That's how the PROS do it.

[Belle Delphine Targaryen!]

The game is Cloud saved, but backup your saves just in case.

C:\Users\CDPRisTheBest\Saved Games\CD Projekt Red\Cyberpunk 2077

[Kethanid]

Originally posted by Jahkkelly:

just had a 1.4gb update and after it updated it said verifying game files and now its re downloading the whole game. i checked my game files and theres nothing there. i was like 20 hours in and idk if my saves are still there. whole game was just deleted

After i got my refund it auto deleted off my ssd, it felt pretty good honestly. But also truthfully that sucks that kind of problem is now happening.

[Qixxer]

Originally posted by Tan642:

sounds like the common gta5 bug, where the manifest is lost. there should be an "appmanifest_1091500.acf" in steamlibrary/steamapps, that's the one for cyberpunk.

maybe try to copy this and put it in there, if it's different. (mind, i'm german, i just changed german to english in last line). if the appmanifest is not there, try to find another one and just copy paste this and change the number in file name to 1091500. do backup of your manifest before trying this.

"AppState"
{
"appid" "1091500"
"Universe" "1"
"name" "Cyberpunk 2077"
"StateFlags" "1030"
"installdir" "Cyberpunk 2077"
"LastUpdated" "1607790342"
"UpdateResult" "0"
"SizeOnDisk" "72344949855"
"buildid" "5950343"
"LastOwner" "0"
"BytesToDownload" "1808946528"
"BytesDownloaded" "0"
"AutoUpdateBehavior" "0"
"AllowOtherDownloadsWhileRunning" "0"
"ScheduledAutoUpdate" "0"
"StagingFolder" "0"
"InstalledDepots"
{
"1091501"
{
"manifest" "5397398694765825708"
"size" "64096812495"
}
"1091506"
{
"manifest" "5133249204516847825"
"size" "5058187264"
}
"1495710"
{
"manifest" "4956579465827510258"
"size" "3189950096"
"dlcappid" "1495710"
}
}
"SharedDepots"
{
"228988" "228980"
}
"UserConfig"
{
"language" "english"
}
}

edit: changed "lastowner" to 0, use your own number from another manifest.acf

thnx