I recently reinstalled the game and I'm not sure why launching the game from different shortcuts gives different results.

If I click on the desktop shortcut, the game will launch and then immediately crash when it reaches the main menu. It also plays the intro that the -novid command skips, despite it being in my launch options.
Says it cant load item.txt file in scripts. tried reverifying too.

Launching tf2 works if I press play through steam.