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mickey0528:
I finished TTT and went off for some works. When I come back to play gmod, it gives an error like "gameinfo.xxx is not found in the subfolder /hl2. please check .........."
I wanna know what's wrong and how can I fix it. Be noted that I don't have Half Life 2 so it shouldn't be a problem with hl2 since this case never happened before.
Also I verified Gmod but it finds nothing wrong. I tried to rename gmod, it works but all materials from other source games won't work. Finally I reinstalled it but problem still remain after the first startup.

Samo:
Sometimes the game fixes itself. Happend to me a few times.

Minic:
Regardless of if you own Half-Life 2, you should still have it's game content. Sounds like the file you're refering to is gameinfo.txt.

Here is the content for gameinfo.txt for Half-Life 2

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--- Code: ---"GameInfo"
{
game "HALF-LIFE 2"
title "HALF-LIFE'"
type singleplayer_only


FileSystem
{
SteamAppId 220 // This will mount all the GCFs we need (240=CS:S, 220=HL2).
ToolsAppId 211 // Tools will load this (ie: source SDK caches) to get things like materials\debug, materials\editor, etc.

//
// The code that loads this file automatically does a few things here:
//
// 1. For each "Game" search path, it adds a "GameBin" path, in <dir>\bin
// 2. For each "Game" search path, it adds another "Game" path in front of it with _<langage> at the end.
//    For example: c:\hl2\cstrike on a french machine would get a c:\hl2\cstrike_french path added to it.
// 3. For the first "Game" search path, it adds a search path called "MOD".
// 4. For the first "Game" search path, it adds a search path called "DEFAULT_WRITE_PATH".
//

//
// Search paths are relative to the base directory, which is where hl2.exe is found.
//
// |gameinfo_path| points at the directory where gameinfo.txt is.
// We always want to mount that directory relative to gameinfo.txt, so
// people can mount stuff in c:\mymod, and the main game resources are in
// someplace like c:\program files\valve\steam\steamapps\half-life 2.
//
SearchPaths
{
Game |gameinfo_path|.
Game hl2
}
}
}

--- End code ---

It should go in \steamapps\<username>\half-life 2\hl2\GameInfo.txt

Also if you verified Garry's Mod and had no issues, try validating any other source based games you own, one of them should trigger this content to be valided... It's a bit odd Garry's Mod validation didn't detect any issues though. It most certainly should have.

I would also check the contents of Garry's Mod's gameinfo.txt also, here it is.

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--- Code: ---"GameInfo"
{
game "Garry's Mod"
title ""
title2 ""
type multiplayer_only

"developer" "Facepunch Studios"
"developer_url" "http://www.garrysmod.com/"
"manual"            "http://wiki.garrysmod.com/"

FileSystem
{
SteamAppId 4000 // 218
ToolsAppId 211

SearchPaths
{
Game |gameinfo_path|.
Game hl2
Game                            |all_source_engine_paths|hl2
}
}
}

--- End code ---

It resides in steamapps\<username>\garrysmod\garrysmod\gameinfo.txt

mickey0528:
I put the HL2's gameinfo.txt in the file you mentioned (\steamapps\<username>\half-life 2\hl2\GameInfo.txt) , checked the gameinfo.txt in my Gmod folder. My TF2 works well and nothing happened during verification. However, my Gmod still won't start.
Help....

Minic:
What is the exact error you're getting?

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