Failed to start game ( missing executable).

[Skurge]

What the hell is going on, it's working OK the first time and now I can't even use it at all and there are no updates running for it. It's like as if I not longer own the product. I've done everything like verifying game cache, re-installing. Nothing. I've done internet searches for a solution and even checked steam support.

It just refuses to work.

 

[Baka-chan]

Did you delete the folder before trying to reinstall it? Sometimes steam games/tools get bugged with something that is still inside the old folder after reinstalling.

 

[Jack T]

I have the same issue since last update (10,4mb)

Failed to start game (missing executable)

 

[link491]

Check your antivirus quarantine. Mine is pretty sensitive and it thought that MV (and 2k and 2k3 and XP and VX and VXA) was a virus (it's a false positive), all you have to do is whitelist the files and restore them and it should work. Hope this helps

 

[Skurge]

I hadn't touched any files.

It was in the quarantine hold on avast but restoring it (making it not something to consider a virus) has not prevented Steam from being stupid and letting me open the program I paid for.

 

[Numieth]

I had the same issue earlier, also caused by avast. What I did was listing the programme as exception, de-install MV, deleted Steam's appcache folder, restarted the pc, re-installed MV.

I don't know if that's more steps than necessary to get it to work again, but hey, everything works fine for me now and that's good enough for me. :')

 

[Skurge]

Yeah managed to get it working, I dunno why I have to repeat the same process to finally kick things into gear.

Thanks for the help guys- this program indeed still needs alot of fixing..