Steam Initialize?

I can not play this game! My friend, Chrispin, has told me and showed me everything to download, I'm sure its correct. But for some reason beyond my explanation, steam says one thing when I join an Emp. map, "Steam is not initialized. Please try again." If anyone can help or has a fix, could you help me out?

 

More info needed. What exactly did you download and install and in which order?

 

This and in this order :
Version 1.0 Beta Full Client for Half-Life 2

Version 1.05 Beta Client Patch for Half-Life 2

 

And you installed Steam and have Half-Life2 enabled on your account, right?

 

there has been some dodgy bugs from the lastest steam client that shows that you havent played/regged for hl2 and attempts to sell it you again , its happend to another one of my friends too, i was suprised when i had steam trying to sell me empires, this could be the same thing/issue ...

Steve

 

Uhh, k Is there any known fixes? Or am I going to be like this for a long time until Steam fixes it?

Oh and Yes to Chahk. I only have HL2 Deathmatch though.

 

Ahh... you have only purchased HL2 Deathmatch, and not HL2 Singleplayer? In that case, you'll want to make a desktop shortcut to HL2 deathmatch on the desktop. Right click it, go to properties, and in the Target entry, add -empires to the end. Be sure there is a space between the address and the -empires part. Then use this link to launch Empires.

 

What about the -applaunch320 or whatever it is? Oh and it still won't work I put it a space after the -applaunch 320. Like this "C:\Program Files\Steam\Steam.exe" -applaunch 320 -empires
Is it right?

 

try this "C:\Program Files\Steam\Steam.exe" -applaunch 320 -game empires