If you have run the game before successfully, I see no real reason for it to stop working now, apart from a graphics driver problem with the more recent drivers, but I doubt that.
I am assuming that you have no mods installed?
I don't think you do have mods, because verifying the game cache would remove them. You definitely do not want mods installed. If you have used a mod in the past that has modified the game's database, then your game save could be a problem
Your game save could be corrupted anyway. So it's probably worth trying to remove the save, just to see if the game will boots up correctly.
1/ To remove the game save (which is your whole career), you have to disable the Steam Cloud for the game. If you have a corrupted game save, and remove it, if steam cloud is running it will put the corrupted game save back onto your hard drive again, which we do not want to do.
In Steam > Right Click on F1 2016 and select 'Properties' > Updates Tab > Deselect 'Enable Steam Cloud Synchronisation for F1 2016'
2/ Remove the game save. You don't have to delete it, just move it somewhere safe, so that you can put it back in the correct place if this fails.
Game save location is in your Steam installation > userdata folder :-
- YourSteamInstallDrive\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata\xxxxxxx\391040
- xxxxxxx = Your Steam ID number
- 391040 = The F1 2016 profile folder.
Everything in the folder named
391040 can be cut and pasted to a safe place, so that the 391040 folder is empty.
Start Steam again and try to run the game. If it works ......... great, but you have paid the price by losing your old career
If this doesn't work, then I am stuck and don't know what to do, except to try older graphics drivers perhaps, the same driver you had when you used to play the game.
If this fails, you might as well put the game save file that you cut and pasted somewhere safe, back into their original (391040) folder.
Cheers
