As to bring more attention to my problem (the megathread has not yielded any help at all), portal 2 does not start on steam. It says "Preparing to launch portal 2", it shows that i am in game, but nothing happens. The best luck i had was when i deleted my drivers (this fucked up my computer, if you have this problem DON'T DO IT) and it got to the title screen but it just hanged. I've been reading up on solutions but all of them are just "VERIFY IMMEDIATELY" or something along the lines of that. Which does nothing for me. People have also tried deleting their CAP's (catalyst application profiles or something like that) but i have none. So, what do i do?
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All these uncapitalized "i"'s are hurting me.
You said you've deleted your drivers, you did try re-installing them to the latest version?
It really sucks not being able to play portal 2 while everyone else can :/ , mine just crashes and loads (portal2.exe has stopped working) and I reinstalled it repetitively and kept all my system requirements updated.
[I]It's the only game in my library that doesn't work[/I].
Yes, i re installed them, but it was portal 2 that randomly started up and crashed everything while the drivers were installing.
Okay, got it working.
Copied and pasted from the steam website:
Click the Selective Startup button.
Uncheck the Load Startup items (or Load Startup Group items) box.
Select the Services tab and check Hide all Microsoft services.
Click Disable all.
Click Apply and Close.
Restart the computer when prompted.
Once restarted, if the system configuration window appears, close the window. Select No to restarting if prompted.
If the program is working fine then it can be concluded that some of the background applications running in the system were causing the issue.
To identify the program that is conflicting with the program follow the steps given below:
1.Click Start, click Run, type msconfig and click Ok.
2.Click the Startup tab and click Enable all. If the computer was in Selective startup enable the items that correspond to the items noted earlier.
3.Click the Services tab, check the option Hide all Microsoft Services.
4.Click Enable all. If the computer was in Selective startup enable the items that correspond to the services noted earlier.
5.Uncheck one of the services from the list.
6.Click Apply, click Close and restart the computer when prompted.
7.Play the game and test the performance.
Unfortunately that is SLOW AS FUCK because you have to tick box, restart, tick box, restart, and if it crashed your portal 2 then you have to uncheck box, restart, just so fucking slow. So i left them all unchecked instead of steam service.
[QUOTE=Color;35913243]It really sucks not being able to play portal 2 while everyone else can :/ , mine just crashes and loads (portal2.exe has stopped working) and I reinstalled it repetitively and kept all my system requirements updated.
[I]It's the only game in my library that doesn't work[/I].[/QUOTE]
All I did was change my download region. Odd, its that or my Portal 2 has a mind of it's own.
That game has a long history of crashes. My best bet would try to contact Valve.
Well, I hope you get this problem solved.
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