Not sure if this is only an issue on my account. I have found little other references to it. About every other time I start the game it doesn't run and I have to verify / repair before I can get it to run. Does this happen to others? It so common now that I try to remember when I exit to kick off a verify / repair so that it will be ready to go when I try to start it up next time.

I don't think it is having any other impact on the game play.

Did you check it's not a problem with your hard disk? Check the SMART infos on your hard disk.

Thanks. Not a bad idea. The SMART info was all blue (good) across the board which is comforting since the drive only has about 1400 hours on it. I'm not too worried about it. Just wondered if anyone had the issue. I bet it is the virus software. I'll put in an exception on it temporarily and see if it behave differently.

Hopefully it is just antivirus or other security related issue, Also avoid ever installing games into a System related folder, it's best to try and avoid the System drive altogether and make a folder dedicate to games on another drive.



Just a thought, you could try using something else to check and verify the files. For example QuickSFV or MD5Checker or other.

They can scan each file in a folder and subfolder creating a hash for each of the files, then later you can use it to check if any of the files have changed or are missing.

Though keep in mind many games for various stupid reasons keep files scattered over the system, such as in Windows User Account folders (like My Documents etc) so you may want to check those files too if no changes are found in the game's folder itself.

If you do discover game files are being changed, you could then find the culprit for causing problems, and just backup the files and copy them back in to avoid doing the verify / repair every time.

Though keep in mind some files will and should change, for example files that store save game or settings data.