Jackrosiemaisie Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 How odd, don't know what happened there, both the quote and the reply two posts up were not what I either quoted or replied. Anyway, I was just saying that I resolved my problem with the Steam self updater by quitting and restarting Steam four times and then eventually worked. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aim_Less Posted October 30, 2009 Author Share Posted October 30, 2009 glad its sorted out yeah forum software today is messing up Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sager Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 i am using win 7 and every time i start the game there is box pops up game is blocked because parental control please some one help me Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aim_Less Posted October 30, 2009 Author Share Posted October 30, 2009 disable parental control? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIG E Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 Any Issues with Steam you Have i am willing to provide Help has a experienced user As long has steam bashing crap stays away If you cant find what you need in this faq post here I'm getting an error message when I load the game through Steam. It comes up with 'fm.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close' This is the technical content? C:\DOCUME~1\Steve\LOCALS~1\Temp\e725_appcompat.txt Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sager Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 HOW iv tried everything :confused: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aim_Less Posted October 30, 2009 Author Share Posted October 30, 2009 @ Big_E try updating your Directx ( google directx websetup) and run it see if it fixed @ sager post a screenshot pleasae Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Dollar Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 Ok, i'm having some trouble here and i'm not technically gifted, nor totally stupid. I have downloaded via stream. That went fine. then i exit out of Stream and load it again so that it can update. So thats all fine. However, if i try to run the game from within stream or from the desktop icon, i get "preparing to launch football manager 2010" for a few seconds and then it disappears. So i try again, and its the same thing. Restarted laptop, restarted stream, still nothing. I see 2 other people have said the same thing on here but i dont see a solution. Thanks. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevieG08 Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 Mines installed and i clicked launch but its been stuck on preparing to launch for about 10 mins. Anyone else had this? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arshavin23 Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 i updated the drivers and verified the cache files but i'm still getting the "football manager 2010 10.1.0f84847 has stopped working" message...any advice? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aim_Less Posted October 30, 2009 Author Share Posted October 30, 2009 Guys i had this issue , do the verify game cache trick twice see if it fixes ( instructions are on the faq ) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
fafax Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 Are you seriously telling me that i cant play this game offline? So what if im somewhere with no connection? or i live in a country were internet is still crappy and can go down anytime? This is f*****g lame! i think im gonna sue them if they dont come up with a solution for that! that will teach me to buy the game... really smart spent 9 hours downloading it through steam last night, 3 hours trying to make it work, finally it works, i play for a couple of hours then need to restart my laptop and now i cant even login to steam, it doesnt go through the "connecting to account" screen.. and internet is working fine actually its just a steam screw up.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arshavin23 Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 tried it more than twice, still not working. thinking of giving up on this game. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hunterboro Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 my steam downloading time has just gone for 14 mins to 39 mins. any ideas why this is guys? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sager Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 oh i feel stupid i just uninstall steam to fix the prop now i have to install again i hate my self if it didnt work i well make may win vista Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
5iver Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 Ok some help is required... I purchased a boxed copy of the game today, and installed on Internet via Steam. The game installed successfully, then I opened Steam, it updated itself, re-started and now, is listed under 'Steam>Installed>My Games>Football manager 2010' and it is being listed as 'Updating'. However, the 'Updating' started over 5 hours ago when I first installed the game and is at 52% after 5 hours and moving up very slowly... Could this be perhaps because I am in a student residence with slow-ish Internet? It says 'Updating' and the KB/s are between 28 + 31 KB/s. Is this really slow, or should i leave it? At this rate, the game will have updated itself by tomorrow morning! Also, once the game is Updated will I be able to access the game with a desktop? Because for the moment I can only find FM2010 on my laptop (Vista PC) on Steam, but I can't play it because it is updating itself! Please help, and I apologise for any inconvenience! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eugster Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 Hey. I was playing the game all day through steam and everything was fine. The I installed a new skin, didn't like it, when I changed back to FM 10 dark it crashed. I was angry enough at loosing my save, but now when I attempt tp launch it it says Game is currently unaivalable Please tey again later. Help please. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
carragherisgod Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 Guys. Just run the dxwebsetup from Microsoft and restart the PC. It's worked for me and 7 of my mates so it may very well work or you too. Good luck. PS: Thanks for all the people who posted constructive feedback in this thread. Much appreciated. Helped me a lot. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SL19 Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 mines been like this for 9 1/2 hours Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
5iver Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 Guys. Just run the dxwebsetup from Microsoft and restart the PC. It's worked for me and 7 of my mates so it may very well work or you too. Good luck.PS: Thanks for all the people who posted constructive feedback in this thread. Much appreciated. Helped me a lot. The thing is I don't know if it really is 'stuck Updating' as it is increasing, albeit extremely slowly (now at 54%) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
biffykins Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 I downloaded it in the early hours of the morning, played a few weeks. Went to start the game today and steam sits at logging in and does nothing else. Anyone else having this issue? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meitheisman Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 This is pretty funny Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SL19 Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 This is pretty funny how?...................... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mlegowski Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 Help! I've purchased the game and updated with FM2010. However when I click on steam to start, the steam program freezes and is unresponsive. I have to go into to task manager to end the process Please help! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gricehead Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 Having issues trying to launch FM for the first time from Steam... "Your client needs to be updated to run this game" The download of the update is frozen at 0.88MB/12.59MB. Restarting Steam does nothing. Restarting the PC does nothing. Not impressed. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arkim Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 No, damn it, this still requires Steam to launch in order for me to play the game. When I use the shortcut, it loads Steam in the background and then loads FM.In FM09, I simply typed in an activation code, and I was able to launch the game directly from the FM09.exe file without EVER having Steam running after initial installation. I apologize in advance if this has already been posted, but try going into your Steam directory (should be something like C:\Program Files\Steam or SteamApps and browse around for the FM 2010 folder. See if you can run the game directly from there and if it works, just make a shortcut to the .exe on the desktop. This worked last year and should be the same this year, at least according to SI as it was posted in the DRM/Installation thread. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aim_Less Posted October 30, 2009 Author Share Posted October 30, 2009 Guys read and try some of the things on the faq , if you still have issues , post here please Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deus84 Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 Weird problem for me as well. I preloaded the game as soon as it was possibile. After unlocking the game, steam downloaded and installed the latest update availaible but if I tried to launch te game from the steam menu nothing happened, the game did not load. Then I tried to launch the game directly from the directory but it said me some sort of steam api.dll was missing...and that's weird considering that all the other games I got under steam are working fine. Then, i read somewhere I could run the Verify integrity of game cache. I did it twice but nothing changed. The editor was working fine...i opened, load a database, made a few changes and saved it. But after a few minutes the editor.exe disappeared :| Now i'm uninstalling the game and download and installing one more time...hope it works Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aim_Less Posted October 30, 2009 Author Share Posted October 30, 2009 you should had verified game cache before uninstalling , but i hope it works for you Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
arseneknowsforsure Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 hi when i try to install it says `steam can not be installed to selected location, folder path contains unknown files.` Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris 84 Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 i was wondering if someone could help me. i installed the game via steam, but when i get to the main menu, the game crashes. that is to say the cursor can move around, but clicking on "start new game" or anything else is impossible. in fact, the only way to exit is control alt delete. i tried restarting my comp and i tried uninstalling and then reinstalling without using steam. i keep getting the same results. can anyone help please? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aim_Less Posted October 30, 2009 Author Share Posted October 30, 2009 hi when i try to install it says `steam can not be installed to selected location, folder path contains unknown files.` go to steam folder and erase it and now try installing Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aim_Less Posted October 30, 2009 Author Share Posted October 30, 2009 hi when i try to install it says `steam can not be installed to selected location, folder path contains unknown files.` i was wondering if someone could help me.i installed the game via steam, but when i get to the main menu, the game crashes. that is to say the cursor can move around, but clicking on "start new game" or anything else is impossible. in fact, the only way to exit is control alt delete. i tried restarting my comp and i tried uninstalling and then reinstalling without using steam. i keep getting the same results. can anyone help please? verify game cache Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
deniro80 Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 Can I download the new game from Steam, whilst playing the Demo ??? If so how ?? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAMIE358 Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 how do you verify cache thing guys?? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aim_Less Posted October 30, 2009 Author Share Posted October 30, 2009 1-Load Steam 2-From the My Games tab, right-click on the game and select Properties from the menu. 3-Select the Local files tab and click the Verify integrity of game cache... button. 4-Steam will verify the game cache files (GCF's) - this process may take several minutes. 5-Once the process is completed, the Check Window will automatically exit. do it twice to make sure game files are fine Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAMIE358 Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 thanks aim less. i will have a try of that now. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAMIE358 Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 thanks aim less. working now after 7 long hours! much appreciated Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hassy28 Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 Can you help me please AimLess. I have been having problems since 9am this morning. Still cant play the game. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aim_Less Posted October 30, 2009 Author Share Posted October 30, 2009 whats the problem ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxburman93 Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 Hi, bought boxed copy and installed game, didn't use steam at all. Started game and got to title page eith new game etc. and it says please insert disc. Have uninstalled and installed numerous times, got it working and played an hour then same message popped up. Please help Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris 84 Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 verify game cache i tried this and it didn't make any difference. anything else i can try? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aim_Less Posted October 30, 2009 Author Share Posted October 30, 2009 Hi, bought boxed copy and installed game, didn't use steam at all. Started game and got to title page eith new game etc. and it says please insert disc. Have uninstalled and installed numerous times, got it working and played an hour then same message popped up. Please help only with steam it wont ask for the DVD @Chris 84 have you tried to update directx also it looks like its an issue with the game itself update your drivers aswell Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxburman93 Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 only with steam it wont ask for the DVD @Chris 84 have you tried to update directx also it looks like its an issue with the game itself update your drivers aswell I had dvd in the machine, I don't mind that, it just said it wasn't in there and didn't work Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greensprout Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 Steam is really starting to annoy me now, I really do Iwish I'd have just bought it from a shop. I'm wanting to play the game offline. I travel alot and do not always have an internet connection. I've been testing the game at home now (disconnectiong from the net) and it never seems to work in offline mode. It keeps saying password not saved or soemthing although I told it to rmemeber my password. Please tell me you don't have to be online to play the game! (I have read previous comments, but there is no definitive answer) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aim_Less Posted October 30, 2009 Author Share Posted October 30, 2009 are all your games on your list updated? go to settings and make sure that the dont save credentials option is not ticked Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greensprout Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 I only have Fm09 and Fm10 on there, so yes all up to date. I have never had a problem with fm09, by just using the shortcut bypassing steam but as was stated before you have to go through steam. I just don't want to be in the situation where I'm on a long journey and unable to play the game. (As I was last week with the demo). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pyewackett Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 i tried this and it didn't make any difference.anything else i can try? This is what I did. Verify game cache. Plus defragment files all from in Steam. The exited steam it updated the client. Good luck. Seems to have done the trick. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aim_Less Posted October 30, 2009 Author Share Posted October 30, 2009 have you tried the go offline option? see if it worked? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greensprout Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 The tick box isn't ticked. But I have tested a few more times and it seems to be booting offline. Fingers crossed. Thanks! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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