Guest Posted January 15, 2012 Posted January 15, 2012 Seriously, what the fuck. I accidently pasted a d3d9.dll thing into the Skyrim game directory and now I can't play the game as the launcher "stops working" when I start it up (it might have been another thing as well). I want to remove it, BUT I FUCKING CAN'T BECAUSE OF STEAM. FUCK YOU. I can't do shit because I don't have fucking "permission"! THAT IS FUCKING RETARDED. THIS IS WHY PEOPLE PIRATE GAMES. Not just because it's for free, BUT BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE TO DEAL WITH FUCKING STEAM. SAME FUCKING THING HAPPENED WITH NEW VEGAS (I can't delete a messed up archiveinvalidation invalidated thing), NOW EVERYONE IN THE FUCKING GAME HAS NO BODY. FUCK. God damnit, sorry, but I had to. FUCK YOU STEAM. Anyways, does anyone know how I can get permission to delete things for steam? Or better yet, is there any fucking way I can play this game and use the launcher WITHOUT steam?
Kodiak Posted January 15, 2012 Posted January 15, 2012 Depends on a few things I think. 1. What OS ae you using? Make sure its not admin type bullshit that Vista was famous for. 2. What folder in Steam were you working with? I've pasted and deleted many files to and from Steam folders before with never a hang up. 3. Make sure Steam is offline or off completely before you try and pull files out. If the file belongs to a game that its scanning for an update, it going to be counted as 'in use' and prevent deletion. Also if its one of the critical Steam files it needs to communicate with the Steam network that will also be flagged as in use if Steam is active. I know a lot of people rage over how intrusive Steam can be, but its just liek any other program. It can be turned on and off, manipulated and broken. I'm pretty sure you can run the Steam Installer and it will give you a repair option (I think, been forever). This will fix Steam itself and leave the installed games. Hell I'm pretty sure you can uninstall and reinstal Steam and it still won't remove installed games. I'd try a repair first though. Most of all stay cool. I've been a Tech for 14 years. You can't fix shit when you're raging because you are too distracted at being pissed at it.
Bromm83 Posted January 15, 2012 Posted January 15, 2012 What I usually do when I fuck up files like that I just right click the game in steam library, press properties and then I can choose to check the integrety of the game buffer.. (Using a norwegian version of steam so have no idea if the names of the things I press (I just directly translated) is the same or not. Hope that helps...
reae Posted January 15, 2012 Posted January 15, 2012 Is it possible, that write protection is the issue? Try going to whateverpartition(disc)youhaveallowedsteamtoplop\Steam\steamapps\common. Here you should have Skyrim folder. Uncheck it's write protection and from now on treat it, like Oblivion or other non-steam games. I my case Steam has nice "feature" of making all games files write protected, which resulted in two times-to-many re setting Medieval II.
Guest Posted January 15, 2012 Posted January 15, 2012 Depends on a few things I think. 1. What OS ae you using? Make sure its not admin type bullshit that Vista was famous for. 2. What folder in Steam were you working with? I've pasted and deleted many files to and from Steam folders before with never a hang up. 3. Make sure Steam is offline or off completely before you try and pull files out. If the file belongs to a game that its scanning for an update' date=' it going to be counted as 'in use' and prevent deletion. Also if its one of the critical Steam files it needs to communicate with the Steam network that will also be flagged as in use if Steam is active. I know a lot of people rage over how intrusive Steam can be, but its just liek any other program. It can be turned on and off, manipulated and broken. I'm pretty sure you can run the Steam Installer and it will give you a repair option (I think, been forever). This will fix Steam itself and leave the installed games. Hell I'm pretty sure you can uninstall and reinstal Steam and it still won't remove installed games. I'd try a repair first though. Most of all stay cool. I've been a Tech for 14 years. You can't fix shit when you're raging because you are too distracted at being pissed at it. [/quote'] 1. I'm using Windows 7. I am logged into an account labeled as an administrator. 2. I was working with the skyrim directory and data in the skyrim folder in common. 3. Steam is currently offline, I've checked through task manager that the exe is not running. Okay, I'll try repairing first. I'll consider any other recommended actions from all of you guys in the mean while. So don't stop posting please!
cyb3r Posted January 15, 2012 Posted January 15, 2012 is steam installed in the program files folder and do you have uac on? (that crap can cause alot of bs with write protection grmbl)
Jerbsinator Posted January 15, 2012 Posted January 15, 2012 This doesn't sound like a Steam issue because I bought Deus Ex on Steam and I heavily modded it and it works absolutely fine.
Guest Posted January 21, 2012 Posted January 21, 2012 Well what I had to do was copy the steamapps, delete everything steam related (besides account) and reinistalled it. Then I deleted the files that messed my games up in the copy of steamapps, and overwrite the new one, but now Skyrim has giant red exclamation triangles on many loading screens! Hurray! I give up until I get a new computer
Mashi Posted January 22, 2012 Posted January 22, 2012 Check your skyrim.ini and SkyrimPrefs.ini files in your documents\mygames folders. They're also used, much like in FONV. So if you muck up one, or both, or all three. But don't make the changes back to the others, you'll get all kinds of weird stuff. You can thank MS for the lovely UAC, screwing stuff up even when it's 'off'.
Halstrom Posted January 28, 2012 Posted January 28, 2012 When you get it sorted use the steam backup thingy and then it's eeasy recovery after that.
cyb3r Posted January 28, 2012 Posted January 28, 2012 hal don't use the steambackup it's garbage it only takes a backup of the stock diskfiles in a format steam only can read (there's a tool i won't mention here since it's largely used for illegal usage) only way to get a decent backup is ye good old archive with 7zip (i'm mentioning 7zip due to the high compression ratios possible if you got a large chunk of memory the preset i'm using eats up 7gb of my memory atm and i got 8 (can't wait till my snipers arrive hello 16gb)
gregathit Posted February 7, 2012 Posted February 7, 2012 Mogie56, what type of card are you running? Both ATI and Nvidia have graphic card management software that can fix this. I have an EVGA Nvidia card and there is a software package by evga called "precision" that will allow you to directly control your fan speed as well as other settings and it will lock them down so no other software can override them. ATI has a similar package as well.
gregathit Posted February 8, 2012 Posted February 8, 2012 Well, something is definitely wrong then. Precision which is the nvidia version of msi afterburner allows me to put my fans on manual which I used to ramp up the speed before starting my game and then click apply and when I exit the game I have to then turn the fans speeds back to auto or they will stay ramped up (a bit noisy when not playing a game ). Steam never touches my cards fans at all. I wonder if there is something else underlying that is F'ing things up. Have you made sure that all those other tools are completely uninstalled? You might also want to alt tab out of your game when the fan speed drops and open your task manager to see what all processes may be running to give you some clues. OH, MAKE SURE you are running the msi afterburner tool as an administrator! That may block anything else from messing with things!!!!!!
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