AI war stopped responding on load

[toimisu]

I've been playing AI war regularly last couple weeks since getting it in the sale, today I loaded it up through steam and get 'stopped responding' message while the game is going through boot.

I validate the install through steam which tells me there is 1 file that failed to validate and will download it.

Get same pop up on loading and every validate after through steam gives me the same message. I am not sure how to see what file it is downloading every time, the file is 864 bytes according to steam.

 I am on windows 8, I have scanned .net files which appear to be fine and I was playing fine yesterday.

[Diazo]

The Steam key also works on the install download from the website.

(Right-click the game name -> View keys)

Can you try installing the stand-alone version you can get from Arcen's website to see if it is a game issue or a Steam issue?

D.

[toimisu]

Downloaded everything, installed one at time, all load flawlessly.

I've tried scouring the folder for this file matching that size in bytes with no luck.

I'll play this route for time being, should I perhaps contact steam and raise the problem with them?

[keith.lamothe]

The file that's different is probably your settings.dat, which is supposed to change in accordance with your settings (your profile and license key, at least).

As to why it would stop loading properly in steam, but load fine outside steam... that's puzzling.  Normally I'd figure it had something to do with the steam overlay, but I'm not aware of others having that problem recently (though perhaps there are those that do, and have just switched to running it outside steam).

[namG1998]

This has also happened to me I'm haveing the exacts same problem

[keith.lamothe]

This has also happened to me I'm haveing the exacts same problem

Are you also on windows 8?

[namG1998]

no I'm on windows 7

[namG1998]

i found out the problem its the "steam_api.dll" remove this from the folder and open ai via the .exe and it works fine.

[Diazo]

I wonder if Steam's done something?

I've been getting the "Updating Steam" message box quite frequently lately.

Having said that, I am not having this issue so I'm not sure.

D.

[keith.lamothe]

i found out the problem its the "steam_api.dll" remove this from the folder and open ai via the .exe and it works fine.

Just FYI, that's effectively the same as downloading the game directly from us and running the .exe (Diazo's suggestion in the second post in this thread); running the .exe outside steam runs it without the overlay.  I don't think you even need to remove steam_api.dll for that.

So it does appear related to the steam overlay, either way.  Which doesn't mean it's Valve's fault, it may be something we did wrong in handling what it does... but I'm not sure what that would be, honestly.  We don't interact with the steam side very much.

[namG1998]

i found out the problem its the "steam_api.dll" remove this from the folder and open ai via the .exe and it works fine.

Just FYI, that's effectively the same as downloading the game directly from us and running the .exe (Diazo's suggestion in the second post in this thread); running the .exe outside steam runs it without the overlay.  I don't think you even need to remove steam_api.dll for that.

So it does appear related to the steam overlay, either way.  Which doesn't mean it's Valve's fault, it may be something we did wrong in handling what it does... but I'm not sure what that would be, honestly.  We don't interact with the steam side very much.

i know that taking the .dll out is the same as the non steam but its a lot faster than downloading the whole game again especially as i have very bad internet   

[keith.lamothe]

Can anyone who had this problem retry it now.  There was an update to the steam client beta ( http://steamcommunity.com/groups/SteamClientBeta#announcements/detail/2020148331992553498 )which might address it.

I don't recall if everyone mentioning the problem mentioned that they were using the beta of the steam client, but that's my first guess on why some people had the problem and some people did not.