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x4000:
Okay, I've talked to Valve, and there doesn't seem to be anything that would have caused that from their end.  Our staff on windows computers have also tried it out, and it worked fine.  So it doesn't seem there is a wider problem here, though we'll keep an eye out.

My general suggestion when things mysteriously stop working all of a sudden like this, once anything service-related has been ruled out, is for you to make sure that:

1. It's a good idea to run a scan for both viruses and/or spyware.  With AI War, we had several player that had spyware messing things up, but I don't know if that's the case here or not.  Running ad-aware, spybot s&d, or avg free or similar are all free and great for that.

2. It's also a good idea to do a scandisk on your computer (instructions for that vary by computer OS, but it's pretty simple).  It could be the early signs of hard disk failure if files are spontaneously combusting and yet still passing hash checks of the sort that Steam would do to verify your local file cache.  We had at least one player with AI War where this happened.


If either of the above is true, doing a reinstall of Tidalis, as you were planning, would solve the immediate issue.  But, you might have it recur if you don't either remove the spyware or run a scandisk, whichever problem it might be.  Scandisk can actually flag bad disk sectors so that they don't get used again, which is great for protecting against a recurrence in Tidalis or otherwise.


Of course, it could have been just a hiccup with Steam, and you reinstall and have no problems from then on.  But, when a hiccup occurs, it's good to check the other things out if you haven't lately, just to be sure your computer isn't in for a worse problem unrelated to games in the near future.

Hope that helps!

Bisonian:
Well, coming back the next day and reinstalling seemed to fix the problem.  I've run the game multiple times this morning without incident.  I will indeed go ahead and run a bunch of PC wellness tests on my laptop here and make sure things are solid.  Chalking up the whole thing to a weird quirk that was probably on my end.

Thanks for all your help in the process!

x4000:
My pleasure! Glad things are working well for you now. And thanks again for your support of the game! It really means a lot to us.

robgrode:
same problem, Steam, same error, Deleted local content, and redownloaded and reinstalled.... fixed

x4000:
Please verify your steam cache, and it should fix it -- the game simply hasn't downloaded completely from steam's servers for whatever reason when you get that error.  Thanks!

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