Game won't launch after moving drives

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  1. Lateralus21

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    I moved my rFactor 2 steam install to a newly installed hard drive due to issues with low disk free space. I used the move install feature in steam and everything was working fine as I played without issues 3-4 times over the last week. Today I subscribed to a couple new items on the Steam workshop and now my rFactor 2 will no longer launch through either steam or desktop shortcut. It just hangs on the white rF2 loading screen. When I try to launch from the desktop icon I get a message stating "fFactor 2 is attempting to launch with the optional parameters show below "+path+" " +workshopsync ". It looks like the workshop is not synced anymore since I moved the install from my D drive to my E drive. Any suggestions or help would be greatly appreciated. I scoured the ini files for anything but couldn't find anything specific for setting workshop paths.
     
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    To add, the workshop items I subscribed to did download. They are in my workshop content folder so it appears it did sync it just won't launch. I let it sit on the splash screen for 15 minutes a couple of times but wouldn't load.
     
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    Hello, I think I am having a similar issue. I moved my steam folder to a new drive a few weeks ago and up until yesterday everything has been running fine. Now when I try to start RF2 through steam, the launcher, or even Fanalab all that happens is the Rf2 logo appears for about 20 seconds and then the game stops running. I am going to try to send an email describing this issue and I will report back any of my findings.
     
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    OK, I finally let it sit longer and a firewall notification finally came up after 20+ minutes. Once I allowed access everything is fine now. Not sure why this changed since earlier in the week but all is good now.
     
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    Interesting, so when you say you "let it sit", was the RF2 logo just showing? When I try to run it I will get the logo for about 20 seconds max and then it just disappears and the game shows as not running.
     
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    Yes RTM110, I had just the RF2 logo showing in the center of the screen. Before it was closing out when my Steam VR closed due to inactivity. I switched it to run on my monitor instead and after being up close to 20 minutes the Windows firewall came up finally. I allowed access now it starts quickly in both desktop and vr mode.
     
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    I see. I'm doing a completely fresh install at the moment. I hope that works. Happy it got resolved for you, enjoy :)!
     
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    Looks like a fresh install did the trick. For anyone having this type of issue in the future, be sure to delete the rf2 folder from steam>steamapps>common when uninstalling from steam.
     

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