ringlord52

Done and still no luck, computer acts like it wants to launch the game. Stuck loading wheel and no other functions will work other than sign out. Dev still works though. I am still getting "1 file failed to validate and will be re acquired in steam" it is the same 18.8Mb file everytime steam downloads it. But i can go right back to validate and it'll download the same file again. Maybe this is the issue?

Update... I tried using dev from the stardock launcher and it actually worked... both times i tried it! So getting the game to run isn't a total failure

Ok, so confirmed those two files in my snip are the .exe files and they do not work. Any idea on what my missing file could be that verify cannot retrieve? I've read through stardocks troubleshooting page for sins and i read something about a "bad .bin" file, and i cannot seem to locate a file with the extension .bin... unless its hiding from me outside of the main folder.

got it, thanks! that will be helpful in the future

I'm assuming the two files in the middle are the .exe files? i cannot find any files with the extension .exe directly in the name. If this is the case yes i have tried both and get the same result. And i still have the issue with the validation not retrieving mystery file.