Game on Steam not loading

[Paper Tiger]

I brought Racedriver: GRID off Steam this morning.

It finished downloading, and when I tried to run it, it pops up the screen saying "Preparing to launch GRID" then that goes after a very short time. The games does NOT load.

Is there any reason it might do this? I read that the antivirus I use sometimes affects Steam... :S Not had a problem with it before, so I dunno! The antivirus is NOD32 btw...


Anyone who can help, please post! This is pissing me off now!

Cheers.

[Calneon]

Try redownloading it.

[Paper Tiger]

..How?

[ez64]

Delete the local files in steam or just go to the "steamapps" in programfiles, delete it then restart steam.

[Chalex4]

Before re-installing the game, I recommend you do the following:

1. Right click the game from the "My Games" tab
2. Click properties
3. Go to the "Local Files" tab
4. Click "Verify integrity of game cache..."

[Paper Tiger]

Okay. I'll do that, but what does it do?

[Chalex4]

It just checks that all the files are there, and in the right place.

I have just checked the Steam GRID forums and apparently lots of people are having the same problem, click here (http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=414) to see lots of threads about it. Some people seem to have found a fix for themselves, but lots of people are still unable to launch it :(.

[Mr.Big]

lol that happens sometimes to me i just restart steam then it works :D

[Paper Tiger]

I tried that. Didn't work

[Calneon]

I wouldn't buy non-valve games on Valve TBH. It's just an extra thing that could go wrong, plus you don't get a DVD for fast reinstalls/play without internet etc...

[Paper Tiger]

You can play them offline :) (I think...)

I think next time, I'll pay the extra few quid to get the game DVD instead. Just www.play.com were sold out and I wanted it before i34! lol

Re-downloaded it. Did exactly the same thing. Now doing what Chalex suggested.

Will edit with the outcome.