I cannot download the game.

[GURU-WU]

Hitting download gives me the info panel and says the game is only 18mb.

[Charlie]

Have you tried restarting Steam?

[Weezknight]

Having the same problem here. I have restarted Steam several times. Deleted, re-installed the game several times.

All to no avail.

The 18MB file that Steam tries to download is certainly not the game since you then get the "missing executable" error when trying to start the game.

Hoping this gets resolved soon as I don't want to pay for nothing.

[Charlie]

Originally posted by Weezknight:

Having the same problem here. I have restarted Steam several times. Deleted, re-installed the game several times.

All to no avail.

The 18MB file that Steam tries to download is certainly not the game since you then get the "missing executable" error when trying to start the game.

Hoping this gets resolved soon as I don't want to pay for nothing.

Try this...

Completely exit Steam and navigate to to...

\steamapps\downloading

And delete everything within the 'downloading' folder.
Start Steam and it should start downloading the files again; if not verifying the game cache will.
https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=2037-QEUH-3335

[Weezknight]

Originally posted by GhostMotley:

Originally posted by Weezknight:

Having the same problem here. I have restarted Steam several times. Deleted, re-installed the game several times.

All to no avail.

The 18MB file that Steam tries to download is certainly not the game since you then get the "missing executable" error when trying to start the game.

Hoping this gets resolved soon as I don't want to pay for nothing.

Try this...

Completely exit Steam and navigate to to...

\steamapps\downloading

And delete everything within the 'downloading' folder.
Start Steam and it should start downloading the files again; if not verifying the game cache will.
https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=2037-QEUH-3335

There is nothing in that folder to delete.

[Charlie]

Originally posted by Weezknight:

There is nothing in that folder to delete.

Try the temp folder as well...

Located in...

\steamapps\temp

Delete everything within that folder.

[Weezknight]

Originally posted by GhostMotley:

Originally posted by Weezknight:

There is nothing in that folder to delete.

Try the temp folder as well...

Located in...

\steamapps\temp

Delete everything within that folder.

Both suggested folders are already empty.

It really seems like Steam is being directed to download the wrong file as the only files it downloads are part of a C++ redistribution package. It does not download any Firewatch installation files.

I have even tried verifying the cache, but Steam believes everything is there.

[Satoru]

You need to have a 64-bit OS to play the game

A 18MB download means you're on a 32-bit OS. STeam is only downloading the redistributable package, but wont' download the game because you aren't on a 64-bit OS

[GURU-WU]

Originally posted by Satoru:

You need to have a 64-bit OS to play the game

A 18MB download means you're on a 32-bit OS. STeam is only downloading the redistributable package, but wont' download the game because you aren't on a 64-bit OS

Thanks, for solution! I will have to fix that then.

[Satoru]

Originally posted by GURU-WU:

Originally posted by Satoru:

You need to have a 64-bit OS to play the game

A 18MB download means you're on a 32-bit OS. STeam is only downloading the redistributable package, but wont' download the game because you aren't on a 64-bit OS

Thanks, for solution! I will have to fix that then.

The only way to fix that is to reinstall your OS to a 64-bit version. There's no way to upgrade in-place.

[GURU-WU]

Originally posted by Satoru:

Originally posted by GURU-WU:

Thanks, for solution! I will have to fix that then.

The only way to fix that is to reinstall your OS to a 64-bit version. There's no way to upgrade in-place.

Thank you thank you! That is what I meant by fixing it. You get all the likes and thumbs up and thank you everyone else for their input.