i need help

[Smoke]

if anyone is going to help me then pls post to this thread ill be watching please i need help very bad i juast want to play my game

 

[Maxi]

Explain your problem again for the third time in as much detail as possbile, please.

 

[Smoke]

ok

ok this is what happens

i have fully updated hl2 and css, they r both at 100% and steam tells me that they are both ready to play offline,but when i try to play hl2 it comes up with the preparing to play half life 2 screen then switches to small window thats titled "steam-error".
in this window it tell me that "this game is currently unavailable, please try again at another time" i have no idea why it does this and any help will be greatly received.

 

[Maxi]

Steam servers are busy? Have you Validated the game files yet?

 

[Smoke]

what do u mean have i validated them? ive done all the unlocking of files and updating stuff but i dont think ive seen anything about validating how do i do it? please?

 

[Maxi]

It should do it automatically. Have you emailed steamsupport?

 

[Smoke]

very stupid question but i want to get it right

erm.......whats the email address?

 

[Maxi]

I don't remember. But go look it up on www.steampowered.com. They might be able to help.

 

[Smoke]

ill try that now

 

[thegroff]

I think is hd space lack problem. Try freeing some hd space, at least 200Mb. I had a similar problem and freeing 250Mbs made it.

Good Luck, steam problems are mystical ones. Noone know the exact solution

 

[Smoke]

ok ill try that thanks buddy
but........please stay close as it may not work imay need more help

 

[Smoke]

hang on ive got 86.8 gb of free meory on my c drive so that cant be it?
anymore soloutions/ideas?

 

[doomed - uk]

As I posted in your other thread, people are fixing that by shutting off steam and restarting it.

Hope this works. :thumbs:

 

[Smoke]

Just By Doing That Or By Reinstalling?

 

[Maxi]

Just shutting steam of and restarting it.

 

[doomed - uk]

Just simply by clicking on the little Steam icon and choosing "exit". Then clicking on a Steam program to start it up again.

Try it and see if that helps, as it helped other people.

 

[Smoke]

trying that as i type hang on.......

 

[Smoke]

that didnt work

anything else guys?

IM D.E.S.P.E.R.A.T.E!

 

[doomed - uk]

I'll have a look around to see if I can find anything. A lot of people have the same problem.

 

[Maxi]

I tried browsing the steam "knowledge base", but I didn't find anything interesting Didn't try browsing the forums though.

 

[doomed - uk]

This guy says to do the same thing, restart it, but while you are online.

http://boards.ign.com/Half-Life/b5220/72504553/?3

Was your internet connection on? If not, try that.