Steam re-install question

Chabsy · 24 Jun 2007 at 18:21

I got a stream account and a dvd of HL2 a few months back i formatted and didnt save the steam folder. Anyway ive reinstalled steam and reinstalled HL2 when i try to activate the HL2 it says CD Key is Duplicated.

Whats the fix for this.

Cheers

Also i wanna go back and play HL1 DM is that a source game now

Ak!ta · 24 Jun 2007 at 18:31

When you reinstall steam, you shouldn't have to reinstall any games again. Steam should pick up any games that are registered to your acount and dl them for you...

Try uninstalling Hl2 and then update your Steam account from the control panel where Hl2 is listed...

Chabsy · 24 Jun 2007 at 20:07

tried that i've also just got this e-mail from stream

This is an automated message generated by Steam account administration.

Steam has detected that your copy of Half-Life 2 Retail Standard has already been registered to another Steam user. Your product's CD-Key (the number printed on the CD case which you were asked to type in after installing the game) matches one already in our database.

I would appear that my account has been hijacked

Dano · 24 Jun 2007 at 20:17

Are you actually using the same username and password to log into steam or did you create a new account?

Chabsy · 24 Jun 2007 at 20:30

Dano said:
Are you actually using the same username and password to log into steam or did you create a new account?

No same user and pw

Rincewind · 24 Jun 2007 at 20:37

Chabsy said:
I got a stream account and a dvd of HL2 a few months back i formatted and didnt save the steam folder. Anyway ive reinstalled steam and reinstalled HL2 when i try to activate the HL2 it says CD Key is Duplicated.

Whats the fix for this.

Cheers

Also i wanna go back and play HL1 DM is that a source game now

just go to www.steamgames.com and download steam, then login to that with your old username and password, then download half life 2 from them

Dano · 24 Jun 2007 at 20:40

In which case you shouldn't need to re-activate the game. Launch Steam, login, go to 'My Games' tab and it should be listed there as 'Not Installed'. If it isn't then you are not using the same account as games are not transferable between accounts.

Chabsy · 24 Jun 2007 at 20:50

Dano said:
In which case you shouldn't need to re-activate the game. Launch Steam, login, go to 'My Games' tab and it should be listed there as 'Not Installed'. If it isn't then you are not using the same account as games are not transferable between accounts.

You were right 1st time i had logged in with the wrong account for some reason i had created 2 accounts, i must have been drunk.
Thanks for that