"Missing gui" bug on the title screen (PC)

[Sciz]

I hadn't played this for a few weeks and downloaded a bunch of updates today before starting the game and when I did all the buttons on the title screen just said "missing gui" and some random number after, and if i clicked on any button after that they just said missing gui also, completely unplayable.

 

I searched around for a solution for this first but all I could see were Mac users having this issue, not anyone on PC, and either way the solutions for them don't seem to work for me. The solutions posted earlier say you should rename some folder from "Data" to "data" or "Text" to "text", basically changing to lower case some specific letter, but all my folder names are already lower case, so there is nothing to fix there.

 

Some people reported that reinstalling helped, but others said even that did not fix it, and I don't want to go through ages of redownloading and reinstalling and have it still not work. Also, I haven't played much on steam before, do I still keep my saved games if I delete local content, redownload and reinstall? If not, where do I find my save game files so I can back them up? I have played for many hours there's no way I'm finishing this game if I have to restart, even if I like it a lot.

 

thanks for help

[KTran]

I hadn't played this for a few weeks and downloaded a bunch of updates today before starting the game and when I did all the buttons on the title screen just said "missing gui" and some random number after, and if i clicked on any button after that they just said missing gui also, completely unplayable.

 

I searched around for a solution for this first but all I could see were Mac users having this issue, not anyone on PC, and either way the solutions for them don't seem to work for me. The solutions posted earlier say you should rename some folder from "Data" to "data" or "Text" to "text", basically changing to lower case some specific letter, but all my folder names are already lower case, so there is nothing to fix there.

 

Some people reported that reinstalling helped, but others said even that did not fix it, and I don't want to go through ages of redownloading and reinstalling and have it still not work. Also, I haven't played much on steam before, do I still keep my saved games if I delete local content, redownload and reinstall? If not, where do I find my save game files so I can back them up? I have played for many hours there's no way I'm finishing this game if I have to restart, even if I like it a lot.

 

thanks for help

Hey Sciz,

Try verifying the integrity of the game cache (right click on the game > properties > Local files tab > verify integrity of game cache). This helped another member with the same issue.

[Harko3030]

Having the exact same issue, game is unplayable and a re-install did nothing.  I haven't had any issues w/ PoE until today when I jumped on and it dl'ed 1.6gB worth of updates.

[Aurelio]

Are you using any of the translation mods?

[Sciz]

Are you using any of the translation mods?

 

I am not using any mod at all. Just standard english as came with the original game.

[EilertAlemat]

Thank you very much. That helped.

[Sciz]

Awesome! That worked, thanks a ton!