Should the game folders be Read Only, and if not how did they become Read Only overnight. My only real concern at this point is why?Д®.g. I haven't tried this on the other games affected yet but will do so and confirm that it works for all of them. So, I unchecked it and restarted steam as suggested and the game loaded normally.

I checked my Empire Totalwar folder in steamapps and sure enough it was set to Read Only. So every steam based Totalwar title failed to load.ДЄfter trawling the internet searching for solutions to ERROR 80, I discovered a number of threads where the suggested cause of the problem was identified as the steam folder being reset to Read Only. The message then goes on to suggest that I reinstall steam and try again, or buy a new copy of the game.) Shogun 2: FAILED (The game appears to start loading but then fails with a lengthy message suggesting that my copy of Shogun 2 is a pirate version of the game (it definitely isn't). Rome 2 Totalwar: FAILED (with message 'Failed to initialize Steam - Are you running steam?') So, I've just tried to load all my TW games, and the results are as follows: I know that games in my library from other publishers are loading normally, but didn't actually check my other TW titles last night. I thought last night that I ought to check and make sure that the problem is limited to Empire Totalwar. Still no help from steam support, or anywhere else for that matter. I'm really just posting here in the hope that someone has had the same error message in the past and can remember what they did to resolve it.

All my other games are working fine, it's just ETW, thats stopped working. The game cache has been verified and came back clean. I've also tried posting a steam ticket on the support site, but that keeps coming back with a page not found error, so it doesn't look like I'm going to get any help from them. I've searched the steam support forum and there seem to be loads of posts quoting this error code, but none of them have any response from steam, or any indication that the problem was sibsequently resolved. I just get a steam message saying 'Empire Totalwar failed to load Error 80'. its 1792) and suddenly ETW has stopped loading. I'm in the final few years of a French Republican domination victory game (e.g.

Morrowind failed to start error code 80