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Debriefing => Bug Reports & Fixes => Topic started by: DirtbagDan on August 12, 2009, 07:40:39 pm

Title: Hey guys, I REALLY need help with an error message (the game won't even start)
Post by: DirtbagDan on August 12, 2009, 07:40:39 pm

Hey guys, I haven't played Goldeneye Source since 1.1, and today I decided to play it again so I updated it to 3.1. As soon as I launched the game, the valve logo loads, and then the goldeneye source menu attempts to load, and then it I get this...

(http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/8851/gsourceerror.jpg)

(Here is the direct link to the image if the forum seems to be re-sizing the image and you can't see what the error message says: http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/8851/gsourceerror.jpg (http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/8851/gsourceerror.jpg))

And then the game crashes when I click ok. Back when I played the mod when it was 1.1, I for some reason would play it in a windowed mode instead of fullscreen. I have no idea why I did that, but I suspect that is why this error message is coming up for me, because every other game and mod I have on steam works fine, and they are not in windowed modes.

Can someone please tell me how to bring the game back to a fullscreened mode without using the options/settings screen (because I cant even get to them due to the game crashing before it starts)? That is IF that is what the problem is...

Any help would be appreciated.

Title: Re: Hey guys, I REALLY need help with an error message (the game won't even start)
Post by: Jeron [SharpSh00tah] on August 12, 2009, 07:50:16 pm

Definitely reinstall the 3.0.1 full 

Title: Re: Hey guys, I REALLY need help with an error message (the game won't even star
Post by: Rodney 1.666 on August 12, 2009, 08:01:24 pm

That's the best bet. It happens sometimes.

Title: Re: Hey guys, I REALLY need help with an error message (the game won't even start)
Post by: DirtbagDan on August 12, 2009, 09:24:24 pm

Thanks, it worked. Problem now is that once i've joined a game, I seemed to get kicked after a bit and the game tells me it couldnt connect to the VAC server.

Title: Re: Hey guys, I REALLY need help with an error message (the game won't even start)
Post by: VC on August 12, 2009, 10:20:54 pm

Close Steam, elete the .blob file in your Source directory, restart Steam. It will do a little update thingie and you should be fine.

Title: Re: Hey guys, I REALLY need help with an error message (the game won't even start)
Post by: CCsaint10 on August 15, 2009, 09:22:25 pm

or if you didn't want to go deleting things, you could also just go to file-->change user--->logout and then sign in again and it usually always fixes the problem. Least it always has for me whenever I have gotten that.

Title: Re: Hey guys, I REALLY need help with an error message (the game won't even star
Post by: keefy on August 20, 2009, 01:24:18 am

It is also worth making sure your bandwidth settings for th steam client are setup correctly ususally with the updates it can be reset to defauts which is the lowest speed normally.