I Can't Launch The Game... (TF2)

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Excalibur5
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I Can't Launch The Game... (TF2)

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While I'm sure the program works, I'm really struggling with getting it to work. The first issue I see is at setup. I've set the game directory and audio directory properly, but it recognizes TF2 to be an HL1 program rather than a Source engine program (which I believe it is). Secondly, I attempt to launch TF2 and I receive an error message which says: "Could not launch game application". Not very specific so I have no idea what to change in order to launch TF2. Lastly, when I manually launch TF2, the console doesn't recognize any of the HLDJ commands and the quick guide doesn't show up on start up. All help is appreciated.
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Re: I Can't Launch The Game... (TF2)

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All latter problems are related to the first; can you confirm that you're running the latest HLDJ version (either 1.4.5 or 1.4.7)?
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Re: I Can't Launch The Game... (TF2)

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I am certain that I am running HLDJ 1.4.7. Tomorrow I may try and download HLDJ over again and see if that resolves the issue. However,any help you can provide I appreciate.
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Re: I Can't Launch The Game... (TF2)

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The search criteria for Source games is any directory under "SteamApps" that contains: "gameinfo.txt", "resource\" and "cfg\". Any such directory will be flagged as a Source game. As far as I'm aware these should be present for TF2, but let me know if any are not.
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Re: I Can't Launch The Game... (TF2)

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Problem resolved. I had the wrong directory selected.
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Re: I Can't Launch The Game... (TF2)

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Try using "Add All", it will automatically find the correct directories for you.
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