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Venhiem

So this morning I booted my laptop and after a few minutes it crashed. I started it up again and wanted to launch CSGO, but instead of Play it said Install.

I checked and the files for CSGO are still there. So I just installed to the same directory and it started discovering files.
Now, after doing that, it is stuck at downloading it and nothing is happening. This is what is shows. It says installing but it's been an hour. I restarted Steam, PC, did the 'steam://flushconfig' thing, still no luck. Anyone have any idea as to what I can do?

I can't just delete it and start over. 5 Gigs at 100 kb/s will take ~14 hours to finish. Plus I have limited internet (10 GB/month) so I'd rather not waste half downloading what I already did once.

Any suggestions most appreciated.

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TempeteJoachim
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Have you tried launching the game form the .exe in the game directory rather than from Steam ?

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Venhiem

I did. It launched, but gave me a notification saying that the game was launched w/o Steam and hence I can't play on VAC protected servers and official servers.

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TempeteJoachim
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Ha, ok. But at least you know the game is properly installed and the issue is related to Steam. But I have no idea how to fix it.

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Venhiem

Yeah, Steam is messing up. The game exists but somehow Steam's not accepting it.

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TempeteJoachim
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Have you done the "check integrity of game cache" thing ?

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Venhiem

Yes. It verified it completely in a second, which makes me think it didn't do it properly.

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Truenorth

The only way I fixed this problem, is by deleting the appcache folder in your steam folder. I had this problem last week, and it seemed to fixed this issue.

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Venhiem

What other effects will it have? As in, losing game saves, or something?

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Truenorth

No it won't, steam save files are saved in the documents section or the appdata section of your computer. Think of it as the cache for your web browser, but with anything you looked in the steam program.

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Tumalu

This might be completely irrelevant but my CS:GO is ~10.37 gigs.

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Venhiem

The download is 5 GB, the files are 10 GB.

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Celestin6669

MB reinstall steam?

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Enkiua

if you have HDD, try to check it for badblocks!

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Whitelist

Right click on CSGO in library > Properties > Local Files > Verify Integrity of Game Cache. It usually fixes files that may be corrupted on the game.

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Venhiem

I tried that. Usually it takes some time to Verify Cache, but in this case it 100% verified it in a second.

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gonsi

Check your ram and hd with diagnostics software

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RobotDeathParty

Pretty sure it's a bug with updates/installing. It happened to me once when I installed a game and it finished but then it went straight back to 'installing'. I fixed it by reinstalling.

EDIT: I think it can happen the same way as with syncing, because syncing progress shows up in the update/install tab.

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Venhiem

So like, delete it all and restart?

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RobotDeathParty

I mean, if you want to, sure. IF it's a sync issue, which I've gotten quite a few times, you could try to just restart Steam but otherwise I think reinstalling would be the easiest solution.

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kraken9
  • move the installation folder (so that you won't have to reinstall games)
  • uninstall steam
  • use ccleaner n all that shebang
  • reinstall steam
  • move the installation folder back

happened to me with skyrim.

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Venhiem

So uninstalling Steam will delete games? Because I've like 50 GBs of games and not enough free disk space (maybe 4 GBs in all).

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CaligoClarus

Uninstalling Steam will wipe every game you have installed at the same time.

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Venhiem

Welp. Nothing doing for me then.

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kraken9

it won't wipe games if you move folder..

Steam installs to the following folder by default:

C:\Program Files\Steam

Files for games installed on Steam are stored in the following folder:

C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\

move that folder to
D:\Temprary folder for steam games\

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MuahahahaMeow

I had to reinstall cs:go today, and it was stuck on that for a bit for me as well. It said it was completely done, yet it was still 'installing'. I have fast internet so it only took like 10 minutes to get out of that. I would just wait it out, maybe leave it overnight. It should fix itself.

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Venhiem

Wait, so what did you do to get out of that?

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MuahahahaMeow

Nothing. I just let it do itself. I mean, first I paused it and then resumed, but nothing changed. So just leave it where it's at overnight or whatnot and see what happens. It might take a bit longer for you if it takes you hours to completely reinstall cs:go.

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FlaminFantazier

Happened to me once with ALL my installed games. Steam sad that none of them is installed although they were all there. I remember redownloading DOTA 2 and the others just got fixed by themselfs lol
If you can wait just let it redownload, sorry I can't help you :(

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Aneszej

Have you solved this yet?

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Tumalu

He has some achievements in the game, so it's safe to say he got it working.

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Venhiem

Yeah, in the end I used by phone's 3G to redownload it. It worked after that.

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Aneszej

Oh well.. I think I had an idea on what you could have done. Glad you got it working tho.

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Venhiem

What was it? It could always help in the future or if someone else has the problem.

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Aneszej

Well, 1 way I found working was:

  • Go to steamapps/common/
  • Find and rename the folder of the game you have issue with
  • Cut (or copy, as a fail-safe) files from within that folder
  • Restart Steam (If you had it running), and try to play the game, it should cause it to start downloading, when it does, pause download.
  • Go to steamapps/downloading/ and open the correct ID folder, (which you can find in url by opening game's storepage)
  • Paste and replace them all.
    (If you feel like something is wrong with installation, try removing .exe file and some dlls to force steam to download them)
  • Restart download on Steam, or press Play, whatever button it might be.

It really seems to be a bug lately with Steam's method of discovering files, it kept screwing me all over the place, with same bug as yours, or removing the existing files and more..

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