cant play bioshock

LabR@t · 30 Nov 2007 at 21:11

when i try to start steam informs me its not available right now try later

I mean come on i paid for it why cant i play it !

Sherbs · 30 Nov 2007 at 21:17

Jesus, be patient. Restart your machine etc. God some people.

LabR@t · 30 Nov 2007 at 21:20

duh, dont you think i tried that I'm not stupid you know.

now can anyone help me rather than state the bleeding obvious.

been like it for couple of days now

neocon · 30 Nov 2007 at 21:20

it doesnt like you, it doesnt want to play

neocon · 30 Nov 2007 at 21:20

how about some more information

LabR@t · 30 Nov 2007 at 21:22

thats all it says all my other steam games run fine. I have reinstalled my os onto new build but i never download/reinstall my steam folder as its like 30+ gb never had this trouble before.

Jimbeam3678 · 30 Nov 2007 at 21:26

tried steam forums ...........

Sinque · 30 Nov 2007 at 21:27

It's boring anyway

edgedemon · 30 Nov 2007 at 21:30

s-p said:
Close steam down and delete the clientregistry.blob file. Then restart steam and it should attempt to connect to a different server with hopefully a better rate of transfer. You'll find this particular file in the root of your steam folder, which for me is E:\Games\Steam

Dunno if the above would help (back up the old file first)
It could be that steam is having a bad night, Im using it for the first time ever, and I have been downloading TF2 for 5 hrs now and am still 25% off a finished game, and had to reconnect multiple times. Not that impressed so far...

LabR@t · 30 Nov 2007 at 21:41

nope its no good, looks like i got to dl it again

edgedemon · 30 Nov 2007 at 21:44

Sinque said:
It's boring anyway

No way - Bioshock is wicked, very atmospheric

Magnum_Force · 30 Nov 2007 at 21:52

Being abit harsh on they guy aren't we, he only wanted help getting his game started.

Having said that, Bioshock is pretty boring, don't bother re downloading it

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eyetrip · 30 Nov 2007 at 21:53

Can you not start steam, or can you not start Bioshock?

LabR@t · 30 Nov 2007 at 21:54

delete

LabR@t · 30 Nov 2007 at 21:54

just bioschock

css, dods,hl2 etc etc all work fine

Mp4 · 30 Nov 2007 at 21:57

Just restart steam , and wait 5mins

LabR@t · 30 Nov 2007 at 21:57

been trying for couple of days as I have already said.

Magnum_Force · 30 Nov 2007 at 21:59

I don't think you'll find much help here mate, your better off trying the Steam forums I think

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Can you play it with Steam being in offline mode??

Sinque · 30 Nov 2007 at 22:04

edgedemon said:
No way - Bioshock is wicked, very atmospheric

Doesn't mean it's not boring, bored me so much I un-installed it about half way through. The only part remotely interesting to me was when the swan lake music, or whatever it was, played and all the monsters attacking you after you got all the pictures for that guy.

Magnum_Force · 30 Nov 2007 at 22:17

I agree with the above poster, it just didn't inspire like it should have, and i think that was mainly down to the gameplay. I mean, fighting big daddies should have been intense, instead it was crap because your character obviously forgot to empty the water out of his boots as he left the sea.

Either that or he had 2 left feet as a genetic defect.