It has to be an OS issue as I have Win2K SP3 and I get the 'Steam - Error, The Game is currently unavaliable. Please try again at an other time' message too. Poo, I have a damaged drive so I cannot play at ALL without a nocd, ah well here's hoping for a fix.

EDIT: Doh! What an ejit, I have SP4! :D

same error here

i have win2k also, sp4

i have an error log ... maybe that will help:

\errorlogs\errorlog00001.txt

Error:Steam error: SteamProcessCall(LaunchApp)(0xab0014,0x201fc04,0x2 01fd0c) failed with error 1: Win32 StructuredException at 66A4139E : Attempt to read from virtual address 220092993 without appropriate access rights.


Function trace:
CFileSystem_Steam::Mount()


and


\errorlogs\errorlog00002.txt

Error:CJoinGameDialog::OnSteamError() : launch game failed, with steam error:
SteamProcessCall(LaunchApp)(0xab0014,0x201fc04,0x2 01fd0c) failed with error 1: Win32 StructuredException at 66A4139E : Attempt to read from virtual address 220092993 without appropriate access rights.


Function trace:


i hope that will help you ...

Same here:
Win2k SP4

errorlog00001.txt:
Error:Steam error: SteamProcessCall(LaunchApp)(0xab0015,0x1d7fc04,0x1 d7fd0c) failed with error 1: Win32 StructuredException at 66A4139E : Attempt to read from virtual address 171573592 without appropriate access rights.


Function trace:

errorlog00002.txt:
Error:Steam error: SteamProcessCall(LaunchApp)(0xab0015,0x1d7fc04,0x1 d7fd0c) failed with error 1: Win32 StructuredException at 66A4139E : Attempt to read from virtual address 171573592 without appropriate access rights.


Function trace:

Both logs come from ONE attemp to start the game.

btw: crc ok!

Dimensio: I only added a few more checks in the path names

Edit: Win2k users, try the DLL attached to this post
Edit2: DLL removed. See below.

Ive tried the new dll.
Same Error as before.
2 Error logs:
1:
Error:Steam error: SteamProcessCall(LaunchApp)(0xab0014,0x21cfc04,0x2 1cfd0c) failed with error 1: Win32 StructuredException at 00000000 : Attempt to read from virtual address 0 without appropriate access rights.


Function trace:
CFileSystem_Steam::Mount()

2nd:

Error:CJoinGameDialog::OnSteamError() : launch game failed, with steam error:
SteamProcessCall(LaunchApp)(0xab0014,0x21cfc04,0x2 1cfd0c) failed with error 1: Win32 StructuredException at 00000000 : Attempt to read from virtual address 0 without appropriate access rights.


Function trace:

Oops, I made a mistake. Try this one instead.

Edit: DLL removed

Hey hijack. No luck on Win2k SP4 here: I don't get the errorlog files anymore with the new dll but steam still crashes. Theres no error msgbox or anything it just disappears as if it was going to launch the game but doesn't. I checked the running processes after and neither steam.exe or hl2.exe is there.

ditto...
 

Same for me.....Exactly what the last guy said.....

I have the same Problem with Win2k Sp4 no msg still crash.

great work on the patch... works fine for me ( i actually bought the game, thats probably why ppl are getting errors)

you should also put on your desc on gcw that it works for cs source and hl1 source aswell

just to help you out, im running on xp sp2 :P

no I bought it, too
 

no I bought the game retail....I understand that its Win2k related.

Damn. I'll have to investigate that more but I can't do that right now.

If you can build the DLL (using Dev-C++), try to change the value of the variable "replaced" on line 179 of hijack_dll.c
Try some values between 0 and 20 for example. If you find any working value, post it there.

I'll give it a shot hijack. I'll repost with my results. Actually I had already started looking before you posted that =)

Fixed the dll:

case 0xFFEC8B55: // Win2k SP3 && SP4
replaced = 6;
break;

6 was the magic number. Win2k: SP4. Attached is the dll I compiled, enjoy all, thanks hijack.

I have no programming knowledge whatever.

I feel like Homer Simpson...I keep entering new values, trying the rebuilt .dll, and saying "Doh!"