My game uninstalled itself???

[Izanagi4b]

Yesterday for like half of the day the content servers were unavailable, after that i couldn't log in. Today i just had the game icon and asked me to install the game again.... Anyone else having similar issues?

[krc473]

Did your computer crash/freeze/etc at all while you were trying to load Warframe?

• My friend had that happen (not yesterday) and the game got deleted.

[-_Highlander_-]

 i use steam client for that

maby you should give it an go aswell ..

steam can backup the game and restore when things go bad

[Izanagi4b]

Hmm, im told the pc restarted itself when i shut it down yersterday evening. I am using the steam client, but warframe is nowhere to be found in my library...

[krc473]

13 minutes ago, Izanagi4b said:

but warframe is nowhere to be found in my library

It shouldn't be if it is not installed. Free games do not appear.

[wtflag]

Sometimes force ending Warframe may corrupt your steam manifest file. It's a very small chance but not zero.

 

[5H4DE]

Had that happen before when my PC went all coo-coo on me with crashes. It uninstalled multiple apps not only warframe.

[Izanagi4b]

O well. redownloaded the game, still can't log in... 

[Oreades]

It's a known Steam issue tho not particularly common, more so with F2P games tho but still not terribly common.

Essentially Steam loses track of the installation, the game itself is actually still there on your harddrive. Most of the time it isn't a super huge deal because when Steam goes to install the files it will see the files and after a validation it will realize that everything is where it should be and get everything back and running. 

The problem with Warframe that exasperates the issue is that Warframe doesn't update through Steam it updates through the launcher. Which means that the files Steam is looking for and the files that the launcher is looking for.... are completely different files. Usually Steams list is about a year+ out of date. Being unable to tell the difference Steam just sees them as mismatches and re downloads all of the files that don't match up with what it is expecting to see. Which ultimately causes the launcher to re download all the files that should be there. 

Consequently the reason you are told (or at least should be told) to use the launchers validation and never to use Steams validation. As steam will validate the current files against it's outdated references. "does this file match the hash? No, OK download the "good" file. I'm helping!"