game will not load past the 'loading assets first time' scre

[Malakie]

Have a problem... Cannot get past the screen that says it is loading assets the first time... let it sit for an hour and nothing.. tried reloading, deleting and reinstalling.. same issue.

I do have the game installed on an external 4tb usb 3.0 drive and have no problems with anything else but that is the only thing I can think of different on my system...

I am using an Asus G75vw gaming laptop with Nvidia GTX 670M video. It has 16gig mem and is quad core i-7 processor..

[Nacho84]

Hello Malakie,

That's very odd! A few questions so that I can understand the issue a bit better:

1) How far do you get into this screen? I mean, how many resources do you manage to load?
2) Which resolution are you running the game at?

Cheers,

[Malakie]

Zero (0) out of 20. Never goes past it.

1980/1020 normally but when I first run a game I leave it at default so whatever that is on first load...

[Quarthinos]

I'm having the same problem. I was able to start the game a couple of times, but the video card broke. I can't get the game to start with the new video card.

[VPaulus]

Have you tried to install the game in a different location that than the default one in:
C:\Program Files (x86)\.....

[Malakie]

Have you tried to install the game in a different location that than the default one in:
C:\Program Files (x86)\.....

Nope will give that a try... kinda wondered myself if that might do it... Will do so tonight and try again... depends on the install because I have a very slow limited internet connection and sometimes steam does not like to use the files already downloaded once you move them..

[Malakie]

OK moved the game to the C: steam folder for now... It was on a USB 3.0 external drive as mentioned.. Anyhow, after the move it completed the load process and works as it is supposed to... played a while without any issues...

So there is something with it not liking to be on external drives that needs to be addressed apparently...

[VPaulus]

It might be related with permissions, security programs or something in your Windows configuration.