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Bojo Jun 16, 2019 @ 3:12am
KSP won't install/start.
So I click install and the game installs in about 2 seconds. It opens and I get this mesage 'Error cant start game missing executable: 'D:\SteamLibrary\Steamapps\common\kerbalspaceprogram\ksp.apps'. I have verified the integrity of the game files more times than I can count. I have reinstalled so many times and it does the same thing. I checked the file that it said was missing and the only thing in there is this readme file called SteamDep. Please help I really want to play this game.
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Originally posted by Manwith Noname:
You may need to launch the game directly from the exe in the install directly. There's been a few threads with a similar issue but not having experienced the problem myself, I've never been able to directly troubleshoot it.
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Manwith Noname Jun 16, 2019 @ 3:19am 
I suspect you are using a 32bit OS. You'll need to install 1.4.5 or earlier versions as the game is now 64bit only.
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Bojo Jun 16, 2019 @ 3:20am 
Thanks ill try that
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Bojo Jun 16, 2019 @ 5:24am 
Originally posted by Manwith Noname:
I suspect you are using a 32bit OS. You'll need to install 1.4.5 or earlier versions as the game is now 64bit only.
I have done this and it still says the same thing, I reinstalled with it on verisons all the way back to 1.3, do you have any other ideas. sorry to bother you.
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Manwith Noname Jun 16, 2019 @ 5:33am 
You may need to launch the game directly from the exe in the install directly. There's been a few threads with a similar issue but not having experienced the problem myself, I've never been able to directly troubleshoot it.
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Bojo Jun 16, 2019 @ 5:49am 
Originally posted by Manwith Noname:
You may need to launch the game directly from the exe in the install directly. There's been a few threads with a similar issue but not having experienced the problem myself, I've never been able to directly troubleshoot it.
Thank you so much! This worked!
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Manwith Noname Jun 16, 2019 @ 6:33am 
Good stuff.

Out of curiosity, would you be able to locate the following file?

appmanifest_220200.acf

Then copy and paste its contents here or to pastebin?
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Bojo Jun 16, 2019 @ 1:58pm 
Originally posted by Manwith Noname:
Good stuff.

Out of curiosity, would you be able to locate the following file?

appmanifest_220200.acf

Then copy and paste its contents here or to pastebin?
Err what is that, I'd love to help but I don't know what it is?
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Manwith Noname Jun 17, 2019 @ 9:24am 
It's a reference file used by Steam to check if your game needs an update and if it's allowed to download updates in the background, that sort of thing. It will list the depots installed among other things which is what I'm curious about.

For people who suffer from this issue (missing executable), it looks like Steam thinks it should be launching the Mac version. I'm just wondering if there is any evidence of this within the appmanifest.

Could be barking up the wrong tree entirely but I'm trying to figure out where Steam gets the idea to look for KSP.app rather than KSP.exe.
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Razamanaz Jun 17, 2019 @ 4:58pm 
Originally posted by Comrade Corbyn:
Originally posted by Manwith Noname:
Good stuff.

Out of curiosity, would you be able to locate the following file?

appmanifest_220200.acf

Then copy and paste its contents here or to pastebin?
Err what is that, I'd love to help but I don't know what it is?
It's located where your game is installed such as C:/Program Files (x86)/Steam/Steamapps and should be in that folder. It's a pretty small text file that you can open with notepad and copy/paste right into the forum.
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Bojo Jun 19, 2019 @ 8:58am 
Originally posted by Manwith Noname:
It's a reference file used by Steam to check if your game needs an update and if it's allowed to download updates in the background, that sort of thing. It will list the depots installed among other things which is what I'm curious about.

For people who suffer from this issue (missing executable), it looks like Steam thinks it should be launching the Mac version. I'm just wondering if there is any evidence of this within the appmanifest.

Could be barking up the wrong tree entirely but I'm trying to figure out where Steam gets the idea to look for KSP.app rather than KSP.exe.
I checked the folder, there was a tonne of those app manifest things however there wasnt the one you wanted, im sorry I couldn't help.
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Manwith Noname Jun 19, 2019 @ 11:37am 
Hmm. In a way, that could explain why things don't work but I suspect you probably missed it or it is somewhere else as I believe without that file, Steam would think the game isn't installed at all.

So, options...

1) Right click on Kerbal Space Program in your library list, select properties. Go to the local file tab and click browse local files. In the file explorer window, click the up arrow that takes you up a directory level, do it again so you are viewing various folders like "common" "workshop" and such. This is where you will find the appmanifest for KSP.

2) Open a file explorer window, have the view on "This PC" so you see various libraries and hard drives. Paste appmanifest_220200.acf in to the search field and hit enter. It might take a while to fully search your computer depending on how it is configured but it should find it eventually.

If it's genuinely missing, I'll be surprised but...you never know.
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