Archive missing or corrupted message, any trick? (fixed)

[Letterit]

After few hours of play, I have now a systematic error if it's not the first launch after a fresh install:
==> Archives missing or corrupted. + a long message about mods. (I don't use any mod).

So to play the game I need:
- Uninstall the game.
- Re download and re install the game.
- Than I can play it once.

Launch the game from launcher or from Cyberpunk2077.exe changes nothing to the problem.

I couldn't find any other way to avoid or fix the problem. is there any trick?

[Silverbane7]

if it is saying 'long message about mods' did you ever have any mods?

even if you maunally removed them, or used a mod manager (vortex, for example) to remove them before reinstalling, there could be traces left behind.

https://www.nexusmods.com/cyberpunk2077/mods/8595
Cyberclean

grab a copy of the 'CyberNuke' version of this. it's a small .bat file you drop into the main cyberpunk 2077 folder and double click to run.
cleans out anything left behind by mods if you have ever had them.

it's fast too, so it's worth trying before longer and more complicated things

[Letterit]

No never installed mods, and it's recent buy.

Galaxy verify files was not looking like doing anything, never saw it different than 0% for the game.

But last time, again the problem, and this time I tried the verify and did something else, it was done when I was back , and with some download, and it fixed the problem, at least, once.

I'll see if it allows more than one game launch.

[Letterit]

Galaxy verify files also allow fix the problme, but also for only one play. I can't see its percentage progression progress, only 0% to done, but it should be somehow less slow than re install the game.

All of that is very weird, I'll try compress game folder and use it to restore, or perhaps even compare to minimize what to restore.

[Azjaran]

for me this smells like your Antivirus Software has a false-positiv and deletes a file. Maybe cut your Internet and deactivate it and see if its happends again, If it happens again make an exception in your AV Software for the game folder. Maybe this will help you

[Letterit]

The only AVS is integrated with windows 10, it's not a main computer anyway.

It tooks some time to backup the application files but next time I"ll check.

The first verify generated 50MB download, the second 51MB, that it changes is not the best.

I also changed all files in game archive folder to make them windows read only, not sure if it can overide an application.

[Letterit]

So problem fixed, it didn't reappeared when before it was systematic.

Two possibilities:

1. I did an archive of the game files, so an AI detected I was threatening to unmask it, so stopped hack my game. Perhaps Bethesda trying discourage me buy games from concurrent, or Steam trying punish me to not have buy them the game but to Gog directly.

2. I changed all files in game archive folder to make them windows read only. The error message was mentioning archives, and it stopped the game to auto mutilate itself, or the default windows 10 AV stopped bug my game which i doubt because it loves report its actions.

As among 2 hypotheses the most simple is the most probable, I would say it's second point that fixed the problem.

But for sure it's not a good fix, I disabled auto updates, but if I apply an update I'll have to remind this.