[2023] Steam Files Fail to Validate

I just tried it and got 0 failures.

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Aybara978NE said: I did find a Steam help article that suggests this is normal for some games since there may be some local config files that are system specific, but I am skeptical in this case since I haven’t had this issue with EUIV in the past.

EU4 does not keep its config files in the Steam folder. They are under Documents/Paradox Interactive/EU4 and Steam does not know they exist.


My next idea would be a complete clean reinstall of Steam and game:

- move any valued save games elsewhere
- "uninstall" in Steam-EU4
- exit the Steam app completely
- manually delete both the Steam/SteamApps/common/EU4 AND Documents/Paradox Interactive/EU4 folders
- delete everything in the Steam folder EXCEPT steam.exe and the SteamApps folder
- run steam.exe to rebuild all that
- re-install game in Steam, run a Steam Verify when done.
- add EU4.exe to the exceptions list of your antivirus app; ESPECIALLY if you have Windows Defender, add it to the Ransomware "Apps Allowed Through" list.


Now that may be more trouble than you want to go to for this issue, up to you.