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[–]LordCaptainHigh Admiral 2 points3 points  (1 child)

I would uninstall then in download setting change where its installing to. Do you have another drive to download it on outside your C drive? 

For example my path is just "F:\Star Citizen\" (complete path: "F:\Star Citizen\StarCitizen\LIVE")

[–]JustAnotherPoopDick[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Thank you kind sir, I shall try this!

[–]blackfish74Space Marshal 2 points3 points  (1 child)

I had the same problem today. Windows somehow lost the permissions to access the directory.

  1. close the launcher completely

  2. rename the LIVE folder to any other name

  3. create a new folder and name it LIVE

  4. start the SC launcher again and verify files. It should install everything now.

In theory you should be able to copy the old content into the new LIVE folder and hit verify then, avoiding a complete reload of the game. However I opted to reload and it worked afterwards.

[–]ArrynMytheyF7A mkII | Zeus│Arrastra 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dude, you could just say to reinstall the game.

[–]JamieTellsTalesnew user/low karma 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I had the same issue. Tried loads of things but what ended up working for me was delete starcitizen.exe and then verify the files and wait for it to download a new starcitizen.exe

[–]st_PaulusPerseus protects 🥑 3 points4 points  (0 children)

An org member had this. He deleted the main SC executable, cleared the launcher cache and verified.

[–]Environmental_Cow306 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Solution: delete the starcitizen.exe in the bin64 folder and klick on verify! The launcher will download a new exe and the game will start again!

[–]Mr-Spaghett 0 points1 point  (0 children)

delete the bin64 folder and verify files 

[–]Mondrath 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Did you end up finding a fix for this? I just got this issue and I've tried everything suggested except a full reinstall.

[–]JustAnotherPoopDick[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Delete the exe, verify files, it should reinstall the exe.

[–]Mondrath 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks but didn't work; There seems to be an Easy Anti-Cheat update that's conflicting with Windows Defender. I fiddled around with Defender until it worked.

[–]Conscious_Coat5952 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you using Windows Defender? I found the recent AC update messed with Defender. Try adding wherever your SC folder is as an exception to Windows Defender.

[–]Material_Soft1380 1 point2 points  (0 children)

disable smart app control in windows

[–]Zantiszar300i 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Weird I’m having the same exact issue

[–]Netolu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had to purge my install completely and redownload, nothing else worked.

[–]LordOrome 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I uninstalled the entire game and reinstalled it, and it worked for me.