There is a memory dump saved in the game folder. This progress bar took several minutes to complete then just closed. There was a couple of seconds of the mouse cursor spinning plus the usual 'Preparing to launch.' window but, oddly, a progress bar appeared after a blink-and-you-miss it Completing install % flashed up. Anyway, I had a backup saved on one of my external USB 3.0 hard drives so I restored that initially rather than redownload the game since I have a slow internet connection which maxes out at 1.2 MB/sec.Įverything went well and game restored and redownloaded the executable but on launching it from Steam nothing happened. One of these games was Hitman Absolution which I know was previously working on Windows 10 Pro as I played it either earlier on this year or late last (it was likely on the previous Fall Creators Update build).
To cut a long story short (thanks Spandau!), I lost a ton of games due to a corrupted filesystem on one of my hard drives.