google.

I have been having this problem for weeks too.

have you tried deleting clientregistry.blob

the only way to fix this for me was to verify game cache then defrag and repeat if it doesnt work the first time. Its annoying and it doesnt always work. Sometimes it fixes itself by not doing anything

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Also did you defrag using steam or did you use GCFscape?

same problem here, I defrag'd deleted clientregistry.blob and reinstalled steam at one point

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Anyone have a solution to this problem?

I can usually cancel it when its higher than 20% and play tf2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwoM3WqGiwQ

short term close steam completely before turning off your computer
long term reinstall tf2

reinstalling tf2 is the only thing that worked when this was happening to me

don't reinstall tf2, that's retarded. follow my video and then defrag with gcfscape. if it doesn't work i will eat my own foot.

shutdown steam before you shutdown your computer. That always fixes it for me.

Restart your computer, when opening steam, and you want to launch tf2, just defrag and verify your files. Best thing without reinstalling, if it keeps doing this after that process, try to delete all your files (move into another folder) and shut steam cloud off.

I had this problem before and the only thing that fixed it was reinstalling the game :c

what about ssd?

you're defragging the gcf files, not your drive.