Play Time: | Bubble Trouble. Thanks Sharon. |
Stories of the Day: |
How to smash a home computer. Titanic Finder Laments Damage by Visitors. Wrecking a wreck. |
Science!: |
Discovery of BBQ gene makes meat more tender. Cleaner Los Angeles? Air Don't Hold Your Breath (registration required). Pilotless Jet Will Attempt Speed Record (registration required). |
Thanks Mike Martinez and Ant. |
For people that are running into the bug on startup that looks like:
"Map Version is 0, expecting 19"
Try this to see if it works:
1. Go into your \Steam\SteamApps folder.
2. Rename the file called sourcemodels.gcf to something else.
3. Relaunch the game.
This is going to require a redownload of this file, but if you want to get playing tonight it's probably the best path. There are a couple of people now that were in this situation that were fixed this way.
As soon as we possible we'll release a fix for this that will not require this workaround.
Please let me know if this does or does not fix this specific problem for you. Just shoot me an e-mail at erik@valvesoftware.com. If this does fix it, it would be useful to get copies of a couple of the renamed (bad) cache files.
Erik
"Both the “left” and the “right” pretend they have the answer, but they are mere flippers on the same thalidomide baby, and the truth is that neither side has a clue."
- Jim Goad