2023: How to Verify Game File Integrity on Steam UPDATED Guide

[Music] foreign welcome back ladies and gentlemen to the chupacabra tutorials Channel I'm your host Larry and today we're back for the updated 2023 Edition of how to validate your game files on Steam and the simple answer is make sure it's installed on your system if it is you're having problems with it it might be a good idea to validate to make sure that the files downloaded correctly in the first place so to figure out what's going on find the game in your games list right click it and go to properties inside of here there should be a button that allows you to validate your game files usually under the local files tab here we can verify the Integrity of the game's files now what steam is going to do is steam knows what the files are supposed to look like they've generated a little hash that it can compare your games what's installed on your computer to what they have and if something is wrong it will tell you right here now if you know something's wrong or something's missing a lot of games will automatically be like whoa partner you can't be doing that and they will automatically re-download the offending files for you if not a lot of games don't necessarily have a great repair tool you're going to have to uninstall the game and then reinstall it which sucks because that can take a lot of time alternatively if we go back to our tab for local files where we verified the Integrity of the game files we can click on the browse button here at the top which will open up a little font folder here let me just close out these other things on the sidebar and this will open up your games files for you to look around and see what's going on inside some games come with their own repair tool that will allow you to fix what's wrong with the game installation you'll find it in here I would recommend if you find there's something wrong with your game and you have scanned to verify the Integrity of your game files and something's wrong to Google if it has a repair tool or the best ways to fix the installation generally people have recurring problems the same as you someone else out there has the same Hardware configuration as you that probably ran into the same problem go ahead and give it a Google see if that brings up a simple solution if not Google how to use the repair tool or if there even is one if not then worst case scenario you're going to have to uninstall the game and reinstall it if that still doesn't solve your problem you're going to have to contact the developer the developers support people or Google around to see if anyone else has any other solutions that you yourself can try that's it for this one ladies and gentlemen I've been your host Larry don't forget to like And subscribe this has been a brief look at how to verify the Integrity of your game install files on Steam and I'll catch you next time bye everybody and have a good one

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Length: 3min 11sec (191 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 14 2023