I Need Help!

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When i try to start Team Fortress 2 a window pops up that says "Preparing to launch Team Fortress 2" after maybe 2-3 seconds the window closes and Team Fortress 2 never comes up. (no error message pops up or anything) I have tried deleting team fortress 2 and reinstalling it....that didnt work I have also tried deleting everything in the Steam file except "Steamapps" and "Steam.exe" and starting steam and that didnt work.... I have looked all over the internet and have found no solution to this problem... If anyone can help me with this problem i would be so glad.

Thankyou to anyone who at least reads this...

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[Paul Bunyan 13]

Try running it as an administrator.

This happened to me once, and I think that's all I did to make it work.

[Near 0]

Try running it as an administrator.

How would i do that? And THANKYOU, usually i get no help when i try forums for this kind of stuff XD.

[Paul Bunyan 13]

Right click the Team Fotress 2 icon on your desktop (or anywhere) and click "Run as administrator".

[Near 0]

Thankyou i will try that and if it doesent work then idk what ill do

[Krash 1,040]

If that doesn't work (Which it probably will) do the same but to 'hl2.exe' in your team fortress 2/tf/ folder.

[Near 0]

hehe i dont know if it works or not if only i could find the administrator password XD

thanks for helping though when i find the password if it doesent work with both suggestions then ill come back here

thanks guys

[Paul Bunyan 13]

Are you on an admistrator account?

What OS are you using?

[Near 0]

well when i right click the tf2 icon on my desktop it doesent give me a run as administrator option so tried right clicking steam and it gave me that option except its called "run as" and i use windows xp, but when i click run as (and im on a administrator account) it will give me the option to run as the account im using OR run as administrator and i click the bubble that lets me type the password in administrator , is the password givin to you or do you come up with it yourself? i cant remember XD

the attaced file shows what i get stuck at to give you guys a better idea (keep in mind i noticed that the periods at the end DO NOT move which leads me to believe its freezing up)

Team Fortress 2 Problem.bmp

[Krash 1,040]

WIN 2000?

[Spartan_0214 18]

Check your processes. If TF2 isn't running minimized or somesuch.

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Ok so im giving the other computer a break and i downloaded it on the bottom one but i have a wierd problem on this one..its in game and yesterday i was playing fine...but now it said "this server has lost connection to steam, your loadouts could not be used" And this is on a lotus server too.

Nevermind i fixed that issue

[Near 0]

Ok, heres everything i could find on my computer

System:

Microsoft Windows XP

Professional

Version 2002

Service Pack 3

Computer:

AMD Athlon[tm] 64 processor

4000+

2.41 GHz, 1.00 GB of RAM

Physical Address Extension

[Brokkoly 11]

the loss of connection to steam is serverside, not client-based, it's ok, you'll live without your yummy sandvich, full of balogna and lettuce, tomatoes, oh god, it's worse than I thought!

[Mana 3,867]

the loss of connection to steam is serverside, not client-based, it's ok, you'll live without your yummy sandvich, full of balogna and lettuce, tomatoes, oh god, it's worse than I thought!

It's both. However the message is the same. When the client loses connection to Steam it will get the "Server has lost connection" message, even though everyone else (server included) will have the connection.

Also Valve has finally made it so the servers auto reconnect to steam. Thus making it even less likely that the server does lose connection to Steam when Steam Cloud is not down.

For a client to regain connection a reconnect is needed.

[Near 0]

Oh no no no no, you all misunderstood, i fixed the server connection problem, all that info i posted was for the computer that wont even OPEN team fortress 2

[Paul Bunyan 13]

Have you managed to try running as administrator yet?

[Near 0]

well i tried using a pass cracker but i could not figure it out... ophcrack i couldent figure out how to download the "tables" for the pass cracking.

Oh no no no no, you all misunderstood, i fixed the server connection problem, all that info i posted was for the computer that wont even OPEN team fortress 2

I can not run as admin. because my mom does not remember the password.

[Brokkoly 11]

brute force it!! aaaaaaa aaaaaab aaaaaac... and so on and so forth