Well.... nice playing with you guys....

[Ford 1st MRB]

Yesterday after we finished playing in the pub, I left DoD and tried launching EVE. I got a familiar message... The game is currently unavailable, please try again later. This has been happening to me more and more frequently lately and it pisses me off so i decided to fix it.

I backed up anything important to an external hard drive, wiped my main drive, and did a fresh install of Vista. After installign Vista, I re-installed all my motherboard drivers, downloaded 84 updates from Windows Update, got all the lastest video card drivers, sound card drivers and the works.

Downloaded Steam after I finished all that, re-installed, DoD, EVE, CoH, L4D, Killing Floor.

I click on a game, get the splash screen saying the game is launching from steam, get the splash screen for the game itself, then nothing. Game stops loading, disappears from my task managaer and I'm staring at my desktop. It's not in the taskbar, in the services tab, anywhere. Just stops running. It does this no matter what game I try and launch. Checking to see if it was a steam related problem, I installed a game from CD, played fine. So it's something to do with Steam.

Knowing this, I deleted all local content, deleted Steam, re-downloaded it, re-installed DoD. Something different is happening now. Now when I launch DoD, I see the splash screen for Valve, (the back of the dudes head screen) and the loading music, but the window isn't full screen, only like 600 x 800. It still disappears after that screen is done and doesn't launch but now I have a whole new set of problems. It's doing the same thing for EVE, launching in a windowed type mode.

I updated my DX9 and 10 Files to the latest versions, re-installed my video drivers again, still nothing.

Any thoughts?

[Lehman 1st MRB]

i'll miss you... send correspondance, letters with your lipstick on them

i like the new sig too, it's fiery, it reminds me of... you know... fire

[Ford 1st MRB]

Fixed.

Re-installed Vista for a 2nd time in 2 days. Yay.

Not sure what happened on the first attempt, but whatever. It all works again and better than before.

Dry those tears Lehman, I'm back.

[Kirkendall 1st MRB]

Damn, thought we had finally gotten rid of you.

[Ford 1st MRB]

Can you see this?

Cause I'm flipping you off as hard as I can.

[Gooderham 1st MRB]

Damn, thought we had finally gotten rid of you.

Dido. Actually, you came up in conversation today. I was talking with a few friends about playing video games and they were telling me about this really cool guy they were talking with, and I was like, damn, I know a guy like that.