The Game Is Unavaliable

willizwilliz Join Date: 2004-09-04 Member: 31327Members, Constellation
in Tech Support
I have a problem every time I try to open Natural selection through Steam it goes to preparing to launch game then a little Window comes up saying the game is unavaliable at the moment please try later how do I fix this to play?
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  • Lt_PatchLt_Patch Join Date: 2005-02-07 Member: 40286Members
    edited May 2005
    This kind of problem can occur if one of many things has happened.

    Here is a few of the common ones.

    1. Half-Life is not correctly bound to your Steam account.
    2. Half-Life is not 100% ready for offline play (even if playing online, this can mess things up)
    3. Half-Life (or one of its MODs) as ran, and has crashed, sending you back to the desktop, wondering what the hell just happened, and clicking the Play Game entry for Half-Life (or one of its MODs)
    4. Steam (or Half-Life) has a pending update, and is refusing new connections to the Steam Master Server, until the pending update has finished.

    1, First off, check that you can actually play Half-Life. Double click on the Half-Life logo, and run the Training Map. This will verify that Half-Life is correctly bound to your Steam account. Try running it after that.

    2, If that doesn't work, log out of Steam, then log back in. Make sure you fully exit Steam, not just close all the open windows. Log back into your Steam account, as see if it is trying to update. Let it update and try again.

    3,If that doesn't work, then restart your PC, log back into Steam, and try opening Half-Life (not any MODs). This will flush the Half-Life engine back to the Ready state, allowing you to play Half-Life (or one of its MODs). If the Half-Life engine crashes, then it has a tendancy to report "In Use" back to Steam, and therefore, Unavailable for new instances of the engine.

    4, Check that Half-Life is 100% downloaded and ready for Offline Play. This can be done by Right-Clicking on the Half-Life logo, and selecting Properties. Under "Amount Aquired" it must read 100%, and Offline mode MUST read Ready.

    If none of the above work, post back up, and I will look up some more advanced solutions.

    Hope that all helps.

    *PS. Thanks be to "typical Skeleton" for helping realise that my Tech Support approch was too friendly. This will be the new design from now on.*

    *edit for clarity*
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  • BlueNovemberBlueNovember hax Join Date: 2003-02-28 Member: 14137Members, Constellation
    edited May 2005
    GJ Lt.Patch. <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
    <!--QuoteBegin-Lt.Patch+--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Lt.Patch)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->
    Pfft, I never get praise when I give advice...
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  • Lt_PatchLt_Patch Join Date: 2005-02-07 Member: 40286Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-BlueNovember+May 22 2005, 05:31 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (BlueNovember @ May 22 2005, 05:31 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> GJ Lt.Patch. <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
    <!--QuoteBegin-Lt.Patch+--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Lt.Patch)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->
    Pfft, I never get praise when I give advice...
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    Woot, the sympathy vote works everytime!
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  • typical_skeletontypical_skeleton Join Date: 2003-02-24 Member: 13944Members
    edited May 2005
    Once again, the answer for this problem lies in the SteamPowered.com FAQ.

    Go to www.steampowered.com and look it up in the Help section.

    EDIT: And Patch, I suggest you practice what you preach and keep certain matters in PM and out of the forums.
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  • DepotDepot The ModFather Join Date: 2002-11-09 Member: 7956Members
    williz you may want to shrink your siggy before the gestapo gets ya. <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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  • willizwilliz Join Date: 2004-09-04 Member: 31327Members, Constellation
    Yeah true but WHAT they gonna do? Oh and it's fixed now and nothing you said helped when I started my comp it went to the blue screen to cheack files and stuff and that sorted it out so i stilldon't know exactly what was wrong.
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  • Lt_PatchLt_Patch Join Date: 2005-02-07 Member: 40286Members
    Probably a damaged index file, if chkdsk fixed it.

    Typical, if what williz say is what happened, then the Steam FAQ will not have helped in this case.
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  • typical_skeletontypical_skeleton Join Date: 2003-02-24 Member: 13944Members
    The Steam FAQ clearly states that it can be caused by temporary downtime.

    There isn't any reason to believe he wasn't a victim of this for some reason or another, it's likely scandisk/chkdisk had little or nothing to do with the solution. Probably coincidence.
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