WHAT THE F!? STEAM!?

[Mailamea]

What the heck is wrong with steam and fallout new vegas?

 

I open my computer , checked steam and found that fallout new vegas is finished downloading and ready to play. When i open it there is nothing in the data files.

 

So i verify the cache of fallout new vegas, and verification failed "313 files were not found and will be downloaded"

 

So i accepted it and wtf 7.5gb to download!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!

 

What the f*ck is that!? i already download a freaking 9++ gb of new vegas and now it wants me to download another 7.5 gb!?!?!??!?!?!?!

 

Any ideas?

[woodenstick]

Ouch... sounds like somebody got screwed   
So did you lose your whole install?

[Halstrom]

might be corruption on your hard drive or Windoze issues rather than Steam or NV's fault.

[Mailamea]

Actually it turns out its steam's fault.

 

Restarted Steam then when i open and reverify it said 6 files are missing and instead of downloading 7.7 gb it is now only 19mb.

[Ark of Truth]

Thank God for that

So all fixed and working now?

 

When you have got it working make sure you back it up using the backup feature on Steam and then burn it to a disk

[Tepi]

You actually shouldnt use steams own backup as its basicly just archiving the files without compression. A better choice is to create an zip/7z of installation folder and get a somewhat decent compression as well. If you dont mind it taking more space and want to go with steams backup, go on.

[Ark of Truth]

You actually shouldnt use steams own backup as its basicly just archiving the files without compression. A better choice is to create an zip/7z of installation folder and get a somewhat decent compression as well. If you dont mind it taking more space and want to go with steams backup, go on.

 

Back it up, compress it and burn to a disc?

 

That way when you need it again, just place in the disc, copy the backup to the desktop, restore the backup and then remove the backup from the desktop.

 

Doing it the way you say sometimes leads to the game key still being used which can make the game useless.

[Tepi]

I dont really understand what game key has to do with backups or installs(its only tied to you steam account which allows you to dl/run said application?), but if it is so, yes, compressing the backup would do the trick aswell. Even if more time consuming.

[Halstrom]

You actually shouldnt use steams own backup as its basicly just archiving the files without compression. A better choice is to create an zip/7z of installation folder and get a somewhat decent compression as well. If you dont mind it taking more space and want to go with steams backup, go on.

I just copy the whole Fallout Data folder uncompressed every month or 2 overwriting the old back up before adding any major new stuff, disk space is cheap as long as you clean out junk & clutter regularly.

 

The I overwrite that over the folders after recovering the Steam backup, that way I get all my data and mods reinstalled quickly.

[Mailamea]

Compressed the vanilla Fallout Folder with 7zip ultra compression method. Saved to my external, that way when something goes wrong easy as ABC.

[NokoKoko]

And that's why I hate DRM.

[Halstrom]

And that's why I hate DRM.

DRM is no big deal as far as backing up the game, has little to do with it. Doing a Steam backup doesn't seem any more hassle than doing a normal compression backup, it's stored locally wherever you want, it just doesn't do the mods, all you have to do is a copy of your data folder then overwrite the reinstalled game data with it.