Help diagnose my problem please =)

[Dayve]

Hello all. My new PC arrived today from pcspecialist (specs in sig, pictures in "show off your PC/Laptop" forum) and everything seems fine hardware-wise. Everything's firmly in place and so forth, it sounds lovely when running. I do have one problem though. It's a gaming PC primarily but I haven't had any time to test it out properly yet with a modern, demanding game; all I've done is install one of my favourites, Crusader Kings 2, through STEAM. However when I try to launch CK2 none of my DLC's show up in the DLC box and when I press play nothing happens. Literally nothing at all. As I say I have not tested any other games, just CK2.

I think because my DLC's are not showing up in the box that perhaps the problem is that I didn't uninstall CK2 or STEAM on my old PC before installing both of those things on this new one, so maybe STEAM won't let me launch any games. However, it was my understanding that you could access your STEAM account from any PC, provided you entered the "different PC login" code that they send you in an email - which I did.

I've fully updated Windows, updated my graphics card drivers through the "NVIDIA Geforce Experience" program and used the "check game integrity" thing on STEAM for the game in question. I've never actually had a NVIDIA graphics card before, I've always used ATI/Radeon for all the 10-years or so that I've been gaming on the PC. Could it simply be something I've overlooked?

Thanks in advance for any help/replies.

 

[steaky360]

Aye I've had similar issues, basically run through the usual FAQ type things. You're right about the multiple installs though, or at least I agree with your assumption (and I also assume that) you can log in on your account and access your games on any PC but only one log in at a time.

Turn it all off and back on again (I assume you've already done that tbh )
Try to re-authenticate the download on steam (check files or something I think... cant remember exactly, you right click and stuff)
Failing all that, you could try to simply copy the entire file from your old PC (which has the DLC on it). That should prevent you from having to download it all again. Then do the re-authenticate thing again.

 

[Dayve]

No worries - everything is fine today. I installed Far Cry 3 to see if a non-STEAM game worked and it does, perfectly. Then after playing that for 10 minutes my DLC for Crusader Kings 2 was working just fine. :scooter:

 

[steaky360]

Glad to know!