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Restart Steam and launch the game. Your progress should remain safe if you use Steam Cloud, but the settings will reset. 2. Administrator & Compatibility Mode Permissions often cause this error. (check the system tray/hidden icons). shadow of the tomb raider failed to initialize steam fixed
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