Steam trouble

[Bodzilla]

Been trying to get my UT3 up and running since i reformated my computer on steam.

keeps saying "the game is unavailable at this time"
*eye twitch*

anyone got any ideas?

[StankBacon]

you could try deleting your ClientRegistry.blob file and restart steam...

that usually helps with quirky steam problems.

[Bodzilla]

more info bacon please, i'm a bit retarded in this shit.

[StankBacon]

its in your steam root folder, close steam, delete ClientRegistry.blob, restart steam.

it will say updating platform files and then you can log in again.

[Bodzilla]

didnt work

:<

[StankBacon]

:(

[Bodzilla]

any other people have any ideas :S?

[t3h m00kz]

http://forums.enemydown.co.uk/showthread.php?t=59425

These guys may have a few answers, I just skimmed over it though.

I have the packaged version of UT3, no steam integration, so I personally can't help you lol

[Phopojijo]

You can put your retail key in and get the Steam version if you wish. (That was to the mookz)

[t3h m00kz]

Yes, but having to sign into steam every time I want to play would be a pain in the ass tbh, I'm not much of a steam user in general

[itszutak]

Yes, but having to sign into steam every time I want to play would be a pain in the ass tbh, I'm not much of a steam user in general
Steam signs in automatically when you turn on the computer, no need to sign in again when you want to play the game.

But besides that I would NEVER EVER recommend someone using steam's launcher for UT3.

Steam hates UT3 for some reason, and it's the only game I've ever had problems with on steam.

[Bodzilla]

i found the solution people.

and it works with any steam game, beacuse all sorts of games are getting it.

what it is is a corruption of some local data for the game to fix simply do this

For anyone still stuck:

I noticed that after I installed Half-Life 2(for the second time ..properly without errors), (In Steam) the "Updating starting.." next to it didn't move, after many PC and Steam restarts.

I tried everything everyone else suggested, and here's what worked for me:

Right-click Half-Life 2, go to Properties, Local files:

(1) Verify integrity of game cache
(2)[most importantly] Defragment cache files

Defragment, lastly as I did, worked for me. Though I don't know if this will work for everyone.
Once i did that, it did a mini update on UT3 to fix what was missing and ALLLLLLLL was goooood :D

i might put this in my sig for refference.

Enjoy!
ZIlla

P.s. had to troll across like 8 forums to find this D: