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If you do own Half-life, and have bound the CD-Key to your Steam account, then Steam will automatically download the files required to play the game. You can also purchase it direct through Steam, using either a credit card (all of the world), or using a PayPal account (except in Germany, at the current moment). It's carried by all good stores that stock video games, and is also carried by all major online retailers. If you don't own Half-Life (the original version, NOT Half-Life: Source, or Half-Life 2), then you need to go out, and buy yourself a copy of it. 1, that you do have Half-Life properly bound to your account and 2, that you have actually downloaded the files for Half-Life, and played through the Training Course AS A BARE MINIMUM. Login to your Steam account, and download a fresh copy of the pre-requisite files for Natural Selection. Steam isn't installed on this PC in a detectable fashionĭownload a fresh copy of Steam from, and install as usual. 'Setup has not detected a valid Steam installation'ġ. Reason: Not really a problem, more of a niche thing, unrelated to NS specifically, aethestic issue Maximising a windowed, non-fullscreen NS. Reason: Problem was reported during the 3.2 beta, with no system information to back this up.Ģ. Problem exiting NS, crashing at the menu when exiting. Mismatched DLL file (aka 'Your dll differs from the server')ġ. SteamID Ticket Problems (aka 'Error verifying STEAM UserID ticket.')Ĩ. Natural Selection v3.2, and Custom Modelsħ. Microphone not recording properly (aka 'Dude, I can't hear you')Ħ. Natural Selection, and 64-Bit Operating Systems (aka 'Your display does not support downloadable gamma', black HUD sprites, Green scoreboard text) THIS SECTION COVERS ALL VERSION OF VISTA, WINDOWS SERVER 2003, AND WINDOWS XP PROFESSION 64-BIT EDITIONģ. Natural Selection installation issues (aka 'Setup has not detected a valid Steam installation')Ģ.

Please, make sure you check each section, and look at the 'AKA's for them all, as you problem may be listed as an 'aka'ġ. They'll all be posted in this first posting, with fixes being added to both the latest post, and this one. Here's the current list of common problems that are covered in this topic. Contains common problems and direct fixesOk, it's about time Tech Support had a 'Common Problems' page, and I'm gonna bite the bullet and make it.

Half life 2 download finishes and then restarts