Just installed an SSD and steam but my games won't launch..

[Darksabre]

I just purchased total war: Warhammer and it comes up like its going to launch and even brings up the total war launcher but noting comes up. I've done everything found here https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=6218-USFX-5568 and its not working and its really pissing me off. Please help.

[Pheace]

Are the two things supposed to be related in any way? (SSD and installing the game)

Was Steam installed before you installed the SSD or did you install it after?

[robomagon]

http://steamcommunity.com/games/364360/announcements/detail/853808969124490218

This can be server load and can also be that TW:W does take a little while to load the first time you run it, please leave it to load for up to 10 minutes.

[Darksabre]

well yes that is why i mentioned it. I installed the SSD couple of days ago and installed steam then purchased total war: warhammer and it won't launch. I also tried launching skyrim and it won't launch it does the same exact ting.

[Darksabre]

[quote=robomagon;358415738202878725 It doens't even run for more than a few seconds. I hit play and it says running then stop and says syncing then that goes away and then nothing happens. NO game running in the background. nothing. I'm getting so frustrated and there isn't even a steam rep I can reach out and ask for help. So F*(*king annoyed.

[Pheace]

if both games have the problem then it's likely your computer where the problem is. Did you update your graphics drivers?

[Darksabre]

In my initial statement, I posted a link to what I did and it includes updating my drivers.

[Darksabre]

Every driver on my computer is updated

[robomagon]

Originally posted by Darksabre:

It doens't even run for more than a few seconds. I hit play and it says running then stop and says syncing then that goes away and then nothing happens. NO game running in the background. nothing. I'm getting so frustrated and there isn't even a steam rep I can reach out and ask for help. So F*(*king annoyed.

Walk me through what you did when you got the SSD. Put a fresh install of Windows on it? Did you just copy your Steam folder to it? You're running Steam as an admin, right? You didn't put it in Program Files did you? You verified the game's cache? Have you tried deleting everything in the Steam folder except Steam.exe, the SteamApps folder, and (very important) the userdata folder?

[Darksabre]

Yes my friend and I did it. He is more exp then I. We installed a new version of windows and I think hey may have copied steam over. I ran it as admin, I verifeid the cache. I uniinstalled and im going to reinstall it again. Do you think its port forwarding?

[Darksabre]

Great.. So uninstalling steam removed all my F&*^ing games. This is a nightmare FFS. sigh.

[Darksabre]

Originally posted by robomagon:

Originally posted by Darksabre:

It doens't even run for more than a few seconds. I hit play and it says running then stop and says syncing then that goes away and then nothing happens. NO game running in the background. nothing. I'm getting so frustrated and there isn't even a steam rep I can reach out and ask for help. So F*(*king annoyed.

Walk me through what you did when you got the SSD. Put a fresh install of Windows on it? Did you just copy your Steam folder to it? You're running Steam as an admin, right? You didn't put it in Program Files did you? You verified the game's cache? Have you tried deleting everything in the Steam folder except Steam.exe, the SteamApps folder, and (very important) the userdata folder?

If you don't put it program files where do you put it?

[robomagon]

Originally posted by Darksabre:

Yes my friend and I did it. He is more exp then I. We installed a new version of windows and I think hey may have copied steam over. I ran it as admin, I verifeid the cache. I uniinstalled and im going to reinstall it again. Do you think its port forwarding?

I doubt it.

Originally posted by Darksabre:

Great.. So uninstalling steam removed all my F&*^ing games. This is a nightmare FFS. sigh.

Ouch. Always move those two folders somewhere before removing Steam.

[robomagon]

Originally posted by Darksabre:

Originally posted by robomagon:

Walk me through what you did when you got the SSD. Put a fresh install of Windows on it? Did you just copy your Steam folder to it? You're running Steam as an admin, right? You didn't put it in Program Files did you? You verified the game's cache? Have you tried deleting everything in the Steam folder except Steam.exe, the SteamApps folder, and (very important) the userdata folder?

If you don't put it program files where do you put it?

Anywhere. I use drive:\Games\Steam, but you could just use drive:\Steam or whatever. But Program Files is protected and closely controlled by Windows so it's just a bad idea to use it for some things.

[Darksabre]

Originally posted by robomagon:

Originally posted by Darksabre:

Yes my friend and I did it. He is more exp then I. We installed a new version of windows and I think hey may have copied steam over. I ran it as admin, I verifeid the cache. I uniinstalled and im going to reinstall it again. Do you think its port forwarding?

I doubt it.

Originally posted by Darksabre:

Great.. So uninstalling steam removed all my F&*^ing games. This is a nightmare FFS. sigh.

Ouch. Always move those two folders somewhere before removing Steam.

Steamapps and userdata? what folder are the installed games in?

[robomagon]

Originally posted by Darksabre:

Originally posted by robomagon:

I doubt it.


Ouch. Always move those two folders somewhere before removing Steam.

Steamapps and userdata? what folder are the installed games in?

SteamApps has all your games. userdata has saves.