The Pinballarcade no longer loads up on STEAM

[Canadian365]

I had a system freeze while playing The Pinball Arcade on STEAM yesterday. I had to exit the game via Windows Task manager. Now The Pinball Arcade won’t load up when I select play from Steam menu. I deleted, reinstalled Pinballarcade, no luck. So today I deleted STEAM and all of its folders from my PC. I reinstalled STEAM, downloaded Pinballarcade again. Same issue I cannot play the game, it will not load on STEAM anymore. My other reinstalled STEAM game load, and are playable!

Looking forward to any solutions.

 

[shutyertrap]

Works fine for me.

 

[Pinballwiz45b]

Works fine for me too.

 

[Jeff Strong]

Did you also delete your save game file?
(located in C:\Users\<UserID>\My Games\Pinball Arcade)

 

[Canadian365]

Yes deleted everything. Game doesn't show up in Task manager either when Steam main menu play button is selected. I even uninstalled my video card drivers and reinstalled, still no go.

 

[Mick Morry]

I just tried it too pal and it's working fine. Not a clue what could be the problem. I hope you get this fixed asap. I know what it's like to not be able to play. I had to delete a bunch of friends off of FX2 tonight because I had the too many friends on FX2 bug. I deleted just enough friends to get it working. Thankfully I had a few that played only an hour of the game. Made my decision very easy.

 

[Canadian365]

I tried deleteing Pinball arcade again from Steam main menu. Now I get a message that says "Cannot delete Pinballarcade, since it is currently running. Please close Pinballarcade before attempting to delete it." But the game is not running, it doesn't show up in task manager or processes.

 

[Canadian365]

UPDATE: Many frustrating attempts, and internet searches for fix, STEAM support...! Issue is resolved! Pinballarcade now loads again on STEAM!

 

[Roo]

UPDATE: Many frustrating attempts, and internet searches for fix, STEAM support...! Issue is resolved! Pinballarcade now loads again on STEAM!

Out of curiosity, what was the fix?

 

[Canadian365]

A number of things. Uninstall Steam, reinstall Steam, download pinball, delete pinball, instal pinball, verify game cache, delete pinball, delete Steam ClientRegistry.bob, uninstall pinball, reinstall pinball, delete pinball, delete steam, delete user game folder, reinstall steam, instal pinball, reinstall graphic drivers, reinstall video drivers, delete pinball, install pinball, verify game cache, delete game saves folder, uninstall pinball, reinstall pinball, delete appcache folder, delete my game folder, uninstall pinball, reinstall pinball, uninstall steam, reinstall steam, reinstall pinball, uninstall steam, delete appcache, delete games folder, instal steam, instal pinball, then pinballarcade worked. So not sure what ended up working in the end! Multiple steps repeated then the game decided to load!

This is all roughly from memory, I know I missed a few more uninstalls and deletion of files as recommended by Steam support and online searches. Not a pleasant experience, hope I don't have to go through it again, or anyone else!