Wtf???!!!

[The_Machinist]

So my CS doesn't work anymore. I tell it to launch the game and it does its regular "Preparing to play CS: Source" load shit then it just stops. No load no nothin. I have just finished reinstalling it and that took for goddamn ever. ANyone know what could be causing this?

[Triple_6]

Just a guess and probably the wrong one, but apparently there was just a Steam update so maybe you need to accept its connection through your firewall.

[Sammie]

there is only one solution: gasoline with matches

[L1veUndead]

The only real thing to do incase of a complete Steam Failure is to uninstall and reinstall everything.

[Thunder]

Also I suggest much alcohol and a little orange tang.

[The_Machinist]

Already uninstalled and reinstalled. It took forever to. The thing is all of my other games work. Ones that use steam and those that don't. All work cept for CS....i'm gonna go cry now.

[Nebula]

so even after the reinstall its still broken??? Hmmm.... I must now investigate.....

do you get any error messages Mach?... thats odd it would just hang on 'boot' and not tell you anything... ?

"STEAM" says, run spy-ware detection programs (adaware should work just fine), check your video settings in the game....try launching it differently..

IE... (I dont know how you launch source.. but...) try, instead of clicking servers, and trying to go straight to the GNG... try going to 'play games' and launch CS that way, THEN once the game is already loaded... click on servers from within the program, and try to log on to your server. I have heard of people having problems (still to this day) who can not launch the game by clicking on the server first, they have to do as I stated above.


Oh, and one last thing... if you donr get any error messages... at what phase does it seem to hang on?.. does the screen go black? does it stop on a particular phase of loading the game?... more info, and I might be able to help you through this...

[sylverarrow]

it's true, work before play.

[Animal]

When you uninstalled steam, did you physically delete all the directories associated with it? Remember, when you uninstall programs, they usually leave their directories behind with configuration information and other things.

Delete your clientregistry.blob file? You can also try the steam validation tool. Go to this link steam://validate/240

[The_Machinist]

Neb: It just has the prparing to play CS box come up...it goes away then nothing happens. It's like i never tried to load it in the first place. I tried joining directly to GNG then through play games. Nothing seems to be working.

AR: I probably didn't do that but it'll wait till I get home. After I take care of it or can't find what you're talking about I'll post.

Thanks for the help guys.

[sylverarrow]

After is disappears, have you checked the 'Task Manager' under the 'Processes' tab to ensure that it's still not running in the background?

With the info AR provided, next time scan through the registery and delete anything that has to do with steam as well.

[The_Machinist]

already thought of task manager...no dice. and will do with the registry stuff.

[Nebula]

yeah... that sounds like the best solution... should resolve any issues, rather than spending all of the time getting a headache over a fix..

..that was like this afternoon.. some guy was having a problem printing ONE document in office 2003.. I read up on it on Microsoft Tech site, and they started going through different kinds of templates, and renaming them to newdoc.old, having office recreate templates and all this crap.. I just reloaded office... screw the hassles.. works great :cool: :lol:

[Sckoarn]

Just skip all that and use Open office!!

[sylverarrow]

Just skip all that and use Open office!!
We don't have that choice, we are just sys admins. We can make a suggestion but that won't go very far.

[The_Machinist]

Ok so now it will have the preparing to play cs screen then it shoots to a "this game is temporarily unavailable. please try again at another time." message. sweet...FUCK!!!!!

[sylverarrow]

Do you use custom models? If so try deleting them (back them up of course) and rerun it.

[The_Machinist]

nope...bare bones...this fucking blows
i don't want to have to ghost my system but i may if this keeps up. I downloaded adaware and that wont even open up. I don't even look at porn! on this computer anyways.

[Sammie]

gasoline with matches

[sylverarrow]

That sucks. If Adaware doesn't open something is wrong. Do you have a up-to-date virus scan installed? I use AVG, free and works well.

http://free.grisoft.com/doc/Get+AVG+FREE/lng/us/tpl/v5

Better yet, go into safe mode and reinstall Adaware and try running it.

[Legion]

lol sammie

[The_Machinist]

Ok tried gasoline and matches...the hospital bill is a bit steep but the army will pay for it. So i nuked my shit from the inside. said fuck it. start from scratch. it is updating right now. cross your fingers

[The_Machinist]

It Worked!!!!!

[L1veUndead]

sweetness. Im the man.

That will be 500 american dollars.

[The_Machinist]

Whoa whoa whoa now. I will only give you the money if you can prove you are the one that inspired me to ghost my entire system because i'm too lazy too care anymore. Oh and if you give me an out-of-this-world blow job. But yeah so everything is updated, i installed all of my old programs. When I say from scratch i mean from scratch. I redid my ENTIRE system. Not just steam. Shows you desperate I was...anyhow I'm back bitches!

[Nebula]

Good to hear man.

Hopefully I'll be able to track down why my ping sucks really bad on CS now... For the most part, everything is cool until I get near other players, then my ping shoots up to 100-200, bleh :doubt:

[The_Machinist]

Whoa...did you get any new updates for hardware recently? or maybe the new directX one? when I got the directX upgrade, my ping shot up into the 100's as well so maybe the same thing happened to you. So I deleted that bitch.

[Nebula]

nope, didnt upgrade or touch anything... just happened one night. My ping on average was about 90 (which is already completely ridiculous considering what I "normally" get) and when everyone started moving it shot up to 200-300.

I really think the problem just rests in my ISP. They claimed they upgrade a bunch of crap a few months ago... I didnt notice any improvement... but I believe its just everyone in my neighborhood hording my bandwith. The only confusing factor is why it suddenly shoots up when everyone starts moving, or I get close to people.. I understand there will be some fluctuation there, but there is no reason why my latency should shoot up another 100-200 :frown:

[sylverarrow]

Well last time I was at your house I was able to connect to 4 different wireless rounters and they had no passwords. So get a wireless card and start taking them all down. :evil:

[The_Machinist]

Haha word up. Terrorize them bitches!

[Nebula]

Well last time I was at your house I was able to connect to 4 different wireless rounters and they had no passwords. So get a wireless card and start taking them all down. :evil:

I hate to say it, but I might really do it if it gets bad enough :lol:

I'll buy one of those wireless cards that look like a USB flash drives, those things are like james bond material.

[JimbobSS]

I had my shortcut icon on my taskbar do something like that after an update and had to go into the start menu and launch it from there....unless you've already tried that.

[JimbobSS]

damn nm, didn't follow the post til the end....I can be a bit retarded sometimes :shock:

[sylverarrow]

I concur. :biggrin:

[Nebula]

lol... :lol: