I recently switched from playing WF thru the standalone client to linking my account through my existing Steam. I immediately began seeing system pop-ups during gameplay, with a warning that roughly said (IIRC) 'another program is trying to access the cache, and WF couldn't update the cache'. I could click past it, so I didn't pay it much attention, although I'd never seen this warning prior to linking to Steam.
Yesterday, WF began hanging during the "Searching for New Content" screen, and the game became unplayable. I looked to Steam for help, and their help page suggested verifying the game files. The button they described wasn't a button for me, just unclickable text. I didn't know whether that meant the suggestion was out of date with the current Steam client, or if my Steam install had somehow become pooched. (When the pop-up windows first started happening I verified the game cache through the WF launcher tools.) So I figured the best thing to do at this point was simply tear the whole thing down and just delete & re-install the game.
While doing that I got a message that a file was being used by a Windows system file (a .dll file) and for that reason was locked and could not be deleted. The same problem file is also preventing me from re-installing the game, and can't be manually deleted for the same reason. I've never run into this issue before, with WF or any other game delete/install. So I'm effectively prevented from playing WF right now. Any suggestions?
In case it matters, my computer is about 2 weeks old, my OS is on my SSD "C" drive, and all Steam DLs including WF are on a stand-alone mechanical remote drive.
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FierceRadiance
I recently switched from playing WF thru the standalone client to linking my account through my existing Steam. I immediately began seeing system pop-ups during gameplay, with a warning that roughly said (IIRC) 'another program is trying to access the cache, and WF couldn't update the cache'. I could click past it, so I didn't pay it much attention, although I'd never seen this warning prior to linking to Steam.
Yesterday, WF began hanging during the "Searching for New Content" screen, and the game became unplayable. I looked to Steam for help, and their help page suggested verifying the game files. The button they described wasn't a button for me, just unclickable text. I didn't know whether that meant the suggestion was out of date with the current Steam client, or if my Steam install had somehow become pooched. (When the pop-up windows first started happening I verified the game cache through the WF launcher tools.) So I figured the best thing to do at this point was simply tear the whole thing down and just delete & re-install the game.
While doing that I got a message that a file was being used by a Windows system file (a .dll file) and for that reason was locked and could not be deleted. The same problem file is also preventing me from re-installing the game, and can't be manually deleted for the same reason. I've never run into this issue before, with WF or any other game delete/install. So I'm effectively prevented from playing WF right now. Any suggestions?
In case it matters, my computer is about 2 weeks old, my OS is on my SSD "C" drive, and all Steam DLs including WF are on a stand-alone mechanical remote drive.
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