1 File Failed to Validate and Will Be Reacquired

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This is what I keep getting over and over when I try to validate the integrity of the game cache on steam. If I validate twice, I get the same message and another 848 byte file downloads again. Whenever I try to play the game, about 2 hours in I get minidumps, runtime errors or just plain crash to desktops with no warnings. I tried uninstalling the game, deleting all files related to it and reinstalling, but no luck. What can I do?

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

Restart steam by running as an administrator, then reacquire the file....that might be affecting the reacquisition (but probably not)...

If that doesn't help, reinstall the game...there could be a bad section on your hard drive (and the reacquired file keeps getting installed there)...I had a similar issue with my old laptop that had some bad parts to the hard drive...

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

Yeah I completely wiped it off my HD, including all the mods and save files. Still crashes after I reinstalled it. I am going to try the admin thing.

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

Only other thing I can think of is some corruption with your graphics card driver or with the C++ distributions....if reinstalling those doesn't help, you'll have to hit up SD support...

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

Ignore this file.  It's a modified Sins: Rebellion Steam installer file that was updated after release and will always be detected as 'changed' by Steam.  It has no impact on the game itself.