arby220 0 #1 Posted February 1, 2009 So I bought L4D recently. It installed fine, no problems. But whenever I try to play, it freezes at the menu, or it closes and says, "Steam is not running. You need to run Steam in order to play this game," or something like that. Help? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Plasma Waffle 0 #2 Posted February 2, 2009 So I bought L4D recently. It installed fine, no problems. But whenever I try to play, it freezes at the menu, or it closes and says, "Steam is not running. You need to run Steam in order to play this game," or something like that. Help? Run steam Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
arby220 0 #3 Posted February 2, 2009 Run steam I am =( Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tinman 0 #4 Posted March 31, 2009 are you using vista? if so it may be wanting you to ok steam to run it ....via vista's UAC...which is shown behind the game. hit the windows key when it errors out and you will see it. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Krash 1,040 #5 Posted April 1, 2009 Same problem, but mine is in TF2 and i was just playing last night with no problems. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
KitHarrison 0 #6 Posted May 14, 2009 I used to get this problem by launching the game through a desktop shortcut rather than through Steam. Is that your problem? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
