Weird Steam issue concerning VAC games

James J · 5 Sep 2011 at 20:14

My housemate has a weird problem with steam where games like killing floor, left4dead 1 and 2, TF2 ect all won't launch and say that "the game is currently unavailable at this time, please try again later" or something to that extent.

Now we've tried tonnes of things, including:

-disabling firewalls
-deleting clientregistry.blob
-reinstalling the games via backups
-reinstalling the games via downloading
-changing graphics card drivers
-changing wireless network card
-matching all wireless settings with mine
-fully updated windows 7 64bit

We can kinda get the left 4 dead games working by not using steam to launch them, instead making a desktop shortcut from the .exe and using the -steam launch command.

Killing floor is a no go though due to how it searches for games so we need a proper fix for this. Has anyone encountered anything similar or the same issue before and if so, how did you bypass or solve it?

uv · 5 Sep 2011 at 20:17

every time I get this, validating the content in Steam resolves the issue.

James J · 5 Sep 2011 at 20:22

Also tried that for all the games

LeJosh · 5 Sep 2011 at 20:29

I think Valve's Game server is down just now.

Check their forums.

http://forums.steamgames.com/forums/announcement.php?f=1069

Gimpymoo · 5 Sep 2011 at 21:27

Do you use multiple steam accounts on the same computer?

linktoinsanity · 5 Sep 2011 at 22:34

LeJosh said:
I think Valve's Game server is down just now.

Check their forums.

http://forums.steamgames.com/forums/announcement.php?f=1069

That's just their official Game Servers. It does not affect their content servers.

LeJosh · 5 Sep 2011 at 22:35

Yeah, noticed that later on.

My mistake.

James J · 5 Sep 2011 at 23:42

Gimpymoo said:
Do you use multiple steam accounts on the same computer?

Nope

Aedus · 5 Sep 2011 at 23:51

Delete the .blob file in Steam folder
Change download region in Steam
If not, re-install steam and copy game files and copy them back after (Make sure you delete all contents of the Steam folder, some are left there after you un-install).

Those are the only things I can suggest even though you've tried most already.

James J · 6 Sep 2011 at 01:02

Aedus said:
Delete the .blob file in Steam folder
Change download region in Steam
If not, re-install steam and copy game files and copy them back after (Make sure you delete all contents of the Steam folder, some are left there after you un-install).

Those are the only things I can suggest even though you've tried most already.

Sadly tried this also lol

Sin_Chase · 6 Sep 2011 at 01:06

Fire an email off to Gabe directly with a good amount of detail, make sure you follow the published Steam FAQs/Guides to the letter first though, indicate you feel you have exhausted all options. I would be very surprised if he did not point you in the direction of someone who might be able to help within Valve rather promptly.

I had a billing issue on my account resolved within about 20 minutes emailing Gabe

James J · 6 Sep 2011 at 14:01

Sin_Chase said:
Fire an email off to Gabe directly with a good amount of detail, make sure you follow the published Steam FAQs/Guides to the letter first though, indicate you feel you have exhausted all options. I would be very surprised if he did not point you in the direction of someone who might be able to help within Valve rather promptly.

I had a billing issue on my account resolved within about 20 minutes emailing Gabe

Lol might actually try that!