Plz help

Hi i just bought a acer aspireone, i d/ld fm09 throught steam i had no problems installing it and activating the key, so when i came to playing the game(all excited) i double clicked the shortcut icon like u do and nothin happened, does anyone have any ideas how i could solve this? any help is appreciated

Firstly, some questions:

Are you on Vista or XP, PC or Mac?

How did you get the FM icon onto your desktop when buying through Steam? Did you do it the correct way as shown below:

I want to play the game without using Steam but cannot find the desktop icon

(This is only if the game has been installed VIA steam)

You can play it without loading up Steam by doing the following:

Go to C: Program Files - Steam - Steam Apps - common - Football Manager 2009

Inside this folder you will find the FM09.exe

Create a shortcut here, and drag it onto your desktop

The game will now work without running steam - make sure Steam is NOT already running when you do this.

If not then you'll have to play through Steam

Try restarting your computer, its a shot in the dark but may help....

im running windows xp on a laptop

And what icon are you clicking on? Is the FM09 one and did you get it on your desktop following the instructions above?

yeah i done that n still the same