Steam issue. Again...

slipd · 27 Aug 2011 at 16:46

Hey guys,

Why do I keep getting stopped from playing my steam games?! I went to play portal 2 earlier and I get a "this game is currently unavailable error."

I went to play it and avast reported it as an error/virus and recommended I should do a boot scan, which I did, now I just want to play my game

Isn't there a way of renaming something and downloading one or two game files again? I need a quick fix...

Out of interest, does anyone know why this keeps happening?

Cheers!

slipd · 27 Aug 2011 at 16:56

ran_out said:
Try deleting the clientregistry.blob file i think it's called in the steam folder.

That's the one, cheers mate

slipd · 27 Aug 2011 at 17:04

I renamed the file (clientregistryold.blob) and it hasn't worked, same message... would not deleting it have made a difference :confused:

slipd · 28 Aug 2011 at 11:17

Turns out it was avast in my case... everytime I was trying to run portal it was moving the .exe to its vault or whatever!

I uninstalled avast last night and reinstalled this morning and I can play portal again

Like to know how it happened in the first place though!

Thanks.