Civ V game cache never verifies on steam

[ChandlerB]

Not sure if this should be on this forum or the steam forum but EVERY time I run the game cache verifier on steam it comes back "1 files failed to validate and will be reacquired" then a pop up says "download from steam complete." I have tried the verify procedures at least twenty times and always the same result. No game problems that are wildly different from what anyone else reports (late game crashes on huge maps, but that is about it). Not sure how to proceed.

 

[GeneraleKutuzov]

The same thing happen to me. After the first game crashes i tried to verify the game cache using steam. But every time i make this, steam ALWAYS find a file don't validate. And every time steam download the file. And civ5 still crash

 

[Furiey]

I had this with Win 7 x64 and solved it by doing the following:

Re-boot PC
Start steam by running as admin (right-click on file and choose run as administrator)
verify game files

I also had to do this to enable the patch to install.
It may or may not work for you.

 

[timtofly]

I had this with Win 7 x64 and solved it by doing the following:

Re-boot PC
Start steam by running as admin (right-click on file and choose run as administrator)
verify game files

I also had to do this to enable the patch to install.
It may or may not work for you.

Did it solve your freezing issue?

 

[ChandlerB]

Just tried that, I also have Win7 64 Home Premium. Still one file fails. I also want to repeat that the only problems I see are late game huge map lockups that seem to be fairly common reading the forums.

 

[Furiey]

The freezing was due to continueing a game started before the patch. New games don't freeze. I've not tried a huge map though, I had to play several turns on strategic view to get through the late game on the one I did. Drop down a size and no problem.

 

[ChandlerB]

I had huge games started and frozen before any patches but the last one I started since the latest patch is still perking along though I am playing slowly and a bit before the usual crash points (for me seems to be attack helos).

 

[WimpyTheWarrior]

I experience the same condition on Win Vista Ult 64-bit. At one point after 5 check verify fails I just decided to forget it and launch the game, and it succeeded. I no longer run the "check local" cache" as a diagnostic tool. I just try to start the game and it it fails then I let it update.

To rule out any other factors you can perform a CHKDSK. (select Properties of your local drive, the Tools tab, "Check Now" for error checking, select both boxes in the popup, and reboot your PC. You'll go though maybe 5 checks in a pre-boot text sequence.) However my CHKDSK came up clean, yet my Civ-5 continually needs repairing from Steam.

Basically for me Civ-5 is little more than a test of my ISP's overnight performance. Occassionally the game will start after about 30 minutes of repairing, but usually I am unable to even launch the game. For me it was easier to just give up and play Civ-4 or EU III.