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RaresLap

Jun 20, 2014 @ 6:48am

Failed to start game (app already running)

I just bought ETS 2 but when I want to play it this appears : Failed to start game (app already running) Help !

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RaresLap

Jun 20, 2014 @ 8:06am

The game gave me the error after I installed it ! Already tried task manager :(

TTimoNN

Jun 20, 2014 @ 10:23am

My friend has the same issue, ETS is definitely not running. After restarting it still gives the same error. He also did a reinstall of the game and steam. Nothing has helped so far. Anyone got any other ideas?

Lynch

Jun 21, 2014 @ 11:40am

I'm hoping for an answer to this as well. This is very frustrating.

Holon

Jun 22, 2014 @ 11:00am

I have the exact same problem, nothing has worked thus far, if someone has any more info, please post it here

BAREEA

Jun 22, 2014 @ 11:21am

enter for multiplayer

TTimoNN

Jun 22, 2014 @ 11:23am

Originally posted by bareagabriel:
enter for multiplayer

what?

Lynch

Jun 22, 2014 @ 5:33pm

Okay so I just got mine fixed. I'm not sure how well this will work for you guys but it worked flawless. Fixed a few bugs I've been having with other games as well. What I did: I went into my main steam folder where the .exe is and deleted everything that wasn't a folder and wasn't the "Steam.exe" itself. I then double clicked "Steam.exe" and it started to update itself. First thing I did was open ETS2 and bam it opened right away. Hope this helps anyone else

RaresLap

Jun 23, 2014 @ 6:14am

Thank you,thank you,thank you ! WORKED ! ^

TTimoNN

Jun 23, 2014 @ 8:14am

After deleting the registery files from steam it worked for my m8's aswell, thanks!

Lynch

Jun 23, 2014 @ 8:48am

Haha right on glad it worked for everyone. Awesome.

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Pls Send Bob & Vagene Pic has Euro Truck Simulator 2

Jun 24, 2014 @ 1:02pm

Originally posted by TheMedic:
Okay so I just got mine fixed. I'm not sure how well this will work for you guys but it worked flawless. Fixed a few bugs I've been having with other games as well. What I did: I went into my main steam folder where the .exe is and deleted everything that wasn't a folder and wasn't the "Steam.exe" itself. I then double clicked "Steam.exe" and it started to update itself. First thing I did was open ETS2 and bam it opened right away. Hope this helps anyone else

Im very new to windows since I just to have a mac. Could you PLEASE explain to me step by step on how to fix this. I really want to play Euro Truck Simulator i've had it for 2 days and it still wont let me play because of this error. Please help

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Lynch

Jun 24, 2014 @ 1:11pm

Originally posted by 20carlosea:
Originally posted by TheMedic:
Okay so I just got mine fixed. I'm not sure how well this will work for you guys but it worked flawless. Fixed a few bugs I've been having with other games as well. What I did: I went into my main steam folder where the .exe is and deleted everything that wasn't a folder and wasn't the "Steam.exe" itself. I then double clicked "Steam.exe" and it started to update itself. First thing I did was open ETS2 and bam it opened right away. Hope this helps anyone else

Im very new to windows since I just to have a mac. Could you PLEASE explain to me step by step on how to fix this. I really want to play Euro Truck Simulator i've had it for 2 days and it still wont let me play because of this error. Please help

I'm honestly not familiar with Mac. If you are familiar enough to navigate to where Steam is installed, what I said above stays the same for fixing it.

I did a quick search. I'm not sure what version you are running but the first post in this link is pretty direct on finding Steam. http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2012853

#12

Pls Send Bob & Vagene Pic has Euro Truck Simulator 2

Jun 25, 2014 @ 10:53am

Originally posted by TheMedic:
Originally posted by 20carlosea:

Im very new to windows since I just to have a mac. Could you PLEASE explain to me step by step on how to fix this. I really want to play Euro Truck Simulator i've had it for 2 days and it still wont let me play because of this error. Please help

I'm honestly not familiar with Mac. If you are familiar enough to navigate to where Steam is installed, what I said above stays the same for fixing it.

I did a quick search. I'm not sure what version you are running but the first post in this link is pretty direct on finding Steam. http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2012853

I found out where the steam folder is and what was the exe. But when i deleted everything and steam started updating I kept getting errors saying that i needed to add stuff back. What am I doing wrong?

#13

Lynch

Jun 25, 2014 @ 4:29pm

Originally posted by 20carlosea:
Originally posted by TheMedic:

I'm honestly not familiar with Mac. If you are familiar enough to navigate to where Steam is installed, what I said above stays the same for fixing it.

I did a quick search. I'm not sure what version you are running but the first post in this link is pretty direct on finding Steam. http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2012853

I found out where the steam folder is and what was the exe. But when i deleted everything and steam started updating I kept getting errors saying that i needed to add stuff back. What am I doing wrong?

Wait I kind of got lost in translation. You are on Windows I'm assuming? If that's the case then you might have just deleted your whole library if you deleted everything in the folder besides the steam.exe. If you did do that then you'll just want to uninstall Steam if that's still an option for you, the end result being just reinstall Steam entirely.

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