The game launches fine, but when I “press any key to continue”, the loading screen just lasts forever.
All my specs reach or exceed the requirements to run the game. Any help would be appreciated.
Not sure if it’s relevant but it is the steam version of the game.
I think it is, I suggest you take a look at the steam forums.
So, after a full day of looking into it, I figured out that my issue was to do with “CONTENT FILE LOCKED” , from Steam.
The specific file, personally was:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\GearsTactics\GearGame\Content\B2\Launch.b2container
I’ve only ever had this issue with two other games and never noticed it before. After hours of failed attempts to fix the issue, this is what I did.
I first uninstalled the game through Steam.
I clicked on the windows start menu (default bottom left), and typed in “cmd”, and ran Command Prompt as Administrator.
From there I typed “netch winsock reset” and pressed enter. Waited a second for the completion message, then restarted my computer.
After that I clicked on the windows start menu again and typed in “Steam”, and ran that as Administrator (not sure if that was needed but I didn’t want to take any chances).
From there I navigated to C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common and deleted the “GearsTactics” folder completely.
After that, I disabled my antivirus software temporarily.
Then I installed the game and sure enough, no “CONTENT FILE LOCKED” message was received.
I launched the game to see the result of what I did and sure enough it worked fine.
I then closed the game and re-enabled my antivirus software.
I relaunched and there was no issues.
I’m not sure if 90% of that was at all needed and it was just to do with my antivirus software, but it worked. It also has worked for one of the other games I mentioned before, the other game was refunded ages ago, so I can’t test it for a third time. But two for two is good enough for me.
