Does this mean my ValveGames disc is DEAD!?

[TaoFan]

A long time ago, I had to delete Half-Life 2 to make room on my HD, but long before then, I made a backup of all the games I had on Steam that fit onto a DVD. At the time, the files were backed up into a single executable, and I remember having no problems running it back then, just to check it.

But I ran it tonight, wishing to play HL2 again, and I got a nasty error message in a window marked "Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library" and the error itself said:

Assertion failed!

Program C:\program files\steam\steamrestore.exe
File: u:\rel_hl1|goldsrc|public\utlvector.h
Line 178

Expression: IsValidIndex()

For information on how your program can cause an assertion
failure, see the Visual C++ documentation on asserts

(Press Retry to debug the application - JIT must be enabled)

So what did I do wrong? What does JIT mean? How do I get it?

Could this be caused by an old corrupted disc? If so, does this mean I'll have to download HL2 all over again??

 

[Beerdude26]

Yes.

JIT : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-in-time_compilation

 

[TaoFan]

You mentioned JIT - I remember a program by that name I used once. Would that help? PLEASE, I don't want to download all of HL2 all over again.

 

[Epsi]

I think that means you need JIT enabled if you're debugging it. Which isn't really for you, it's for Valve to fix bugs.

Looks like that backup is knackered. Unlucky.

 

[Cole]

When you backed up to your DVD it got written on to the disc wrong. It could have been also copied to the Hard Drive wrong(unlikely).

 

[RomeoJGuy]

Assertions shouldn't fail on a release build which halflife2 surely is. As they aren't used. They are used in the debugging of code.

 

[TaoFan]

I copied the file onto two DVDs in fact, but the other one is somewhere else. Any chance that one will fail too? You know, just so I don't waste my time fetching it?

 

[Beerdude26]

Probably, if it was made around the same time period.

 

[Login_Here]

Probably, if it was made around the same time period.

And created the same way as the other CD was created.

Moved to the Valve Games Help forum.

 

[TaoFan]

Well, I've managed to download the games back again in a fraction of the time than I thought it would take, because I had HL2-Ep1 on a second DVD.