No sound in ep2/portal?

[Dr. kitteny berk]

Right, this isn't as bad as you'd expect, it's most likely just that something went a bit wrong around the edges.

Fortunately, steam loves you.

Right click [broken game] In the steam games list > Click properties > Select the "local files" tab > click Verify integrity of game cache.

If there's problems with your game, this'll check if it's a file issue, and redownload whatever is broke.


However, sometimes this doesn't work, you can try deleting your game's folder. For example, if your Portal is broke, delete the folder called

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C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\email@badgers.co.uk\portal

That'll horse steam to rebuild your game from the gcfs (usually only helps if you've manually fucked something, and you've already done the verify cache thing)

[Stoat]

Neither of these worked for me, however you can also try this:
Go in to the game and change the language, then change it back.

[Dr. kitteny berk]

Neither of these worked for me, however you can also try this:
Go in to the game and change the language, then change it back.

ooh, cunning.

[spoodie]

Neither of these worked for me, however you can also try this:
Go in to the game and change the language, then change it back.

I read about this somewhere else and tried it without playing the game, looks like I did have the problem as it updated some stuff.

[Grimmie]

Changing the language made my game unhappy, and it died.
So I am reinstalling.

Looks like I'll be playing tomorrow

[Mr. Johnson]

sound seems to be okay, but i get this other weird problem where valve games (although bioshock seems to have it as well) won't remember my settings, it keeps changing it with every restart.

[Dr. kitteny berk]

That's probably something set to read only that shouldn't be.

[deject]

sound seems to be okay, but i get this other weird problem where valve games (although bioshock seems to have it as well) won't remember my settings, it keeps changing it with every restart.

I had this with CS:S, and the only way I was able to fix it was to nuke the CS:S folder and let Steam re-make it. Exit Steam, then make sure you backup any particular custom maps and settings (i.e.: an autoexec.cfg file) you have then nuke the folder. Restart Steam and run the game so Steam can re-make the config folders. Finally, you should then be able to replace your maps/autoexec.cfg files back where they belong.