Hi, I've encountered a strange issue after I've played OC for some time.
For three weeks, I was unable to start the game because of the "Unable to load C:\(steam directory)\source sdk 2007\bin\filesystem_steam.dll".
What caused the error was a faulty manifest file (appmanifest_218.acf) created by Steam:
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"AppState"
{
"appID" "218"
"Universe" "1"
"StateFlags" "4"
"installdir" "Source SDK Base 2007"
"LastUpdated" "1375022418"
"UpdateResult" "0"
"SizeOnDisk" "3927750445"
"buildid" "86957"
"LastOwner" "76561198000779676"
"BytesToDownload" "2305954272"
"BytesDownloaded" "2305954272"
"UserConfig"
{
"name" "Source SDK Base 2007"
"GameID" "218"
"Installed" "1"
"appinstalldir" "c:\\program files (x86)\\steam\\steamapps\\tomwitowski\\source sdk base 2007"
"language" "english"
}
"MountedDepots"
{
"215" "1692357934132329117"
"208" "4485654213482970041"
"207" "1119750819801277267"
"206" "20269405477291195"
"307" "7905667531274231595"
"306" "617289042394289763"
"305" "1532139850764196878"
"310" "7405693447124441136"
"218" "5898314514050799304"
"216" "1147083136141221298"
"1004" "4675966907796269416"
}
}
The only thing I remember doing was removing Half Life 2, which Steam's library showed as installed, but unable to play because I don't own the game - only "buy" option was available when selected.
Since I'm unable to reproduce it, and it appears that only I had this problem, I refrained from creating an issue on bugtracker. Also, issue was easily fixed just my moving the faulty manifest away from steamapps folder (though it gave me much, much more work to find out it was the case).
I am quite sure that SDK files weren't updated to steampipe at the time. What could have caused the manifest file to be created?