So I loaded the game, got an error, "Could not locate materials/console/startup_loading (something similar). So I just copied the background001 and renamed it to that, and not it's missing.. *checks* "Unable to load manifest file 'scripts/surfaceproperties_manifest.txt'. I'm redownloading the whole thing now, (thank God for 1.5MB/s), but I was curious to see if this has happened before.
That is odd, I don't know about the startup_loading stuff but the empires does not have an own surfaceproperties_manifest.txt yet. It uses the one from the half life 2 .gcfs So if it doesn't find those, uh...
Iono, I didn't bother with anything else, I just reinstalled. And I came back to my computer from a week of it being shut down, so iono how it happened.
maybe your cat was messing with your files..... no seriously, dust out your computer. Sounds like the file became corrupt or was altered.
I think I know why it hppened... I err..accidentally updated my Empires with the tester files...I think.
If HL2 is not installed, it gives both the background error and the script error. I installed HL2 and they both went away.
