Vortex corrupted on new pc

[kyle152]

Gives me this error message

your vortex instillation has been corrupted. this could be the result of a virus or manual manipulation. vortex might still appear to work but we suggest you reinstall it.

 

I've never messed with the files or installed any mods yet. This is a new pc that's never used vortex. Reinstalling doesn't work as well as deleting the program file.

[Pickysaurus]

Try deleting the Vortex folder at %appdata%. Something on your PC (possibly anti-virus) may have corrupted the install.

[HellFreezer]

Also critical, may be an issue of system permissions on required path\folder\files. Some vital questions to answer are: 1. Are you logged into a user account that has Administrator privileges, or rather, logged into a restricted user account? 2. Have you tried the option of Run as Administrator for starting Vortex? 3. During installation, did you allow the installer to keep the default drive paths or did you manually change anything to some other target?

[Tannin42]

That error message means that the Vortex application files, meaning the files in "C:\Program Files\Black Tree Gaming Ltd\Vortex" - or your custom install location if you picked the other installer - are either deleted or modified.

This might have been you, your AV, a Virus or a hardware defect or, like HellFreezer suggested, file permissions such that Vortex can't read its own files (though it _is_ running the executable so clearly it can read some of those files). Or you're using an unofficial release. Or a bug that no one else encountered.

But it is unreadable application files, it is nothing else, just this.

 

So please do NOT delete %appdata%\Vortex, that would reset Vortex and lose everything you've done in it with 0 chance of fixing this problem.

 

You can look at the vortex log (in %appdata%\vortex\vortex.log, it will contain the list of files that actually failed to read and whether they are missing or modified, maybe that gives us a clue. E.g. if the file in question is an exe, .dll or .node file it's probably an AV or Virus.