Col Hogan Posted March 5, 2004 Posted March 5, 2004 I've been playing FA in steam problem free. After steam updated itself, which took few attempts for it to appear to finish update downloads, steam menu comes up, logged in, can see servers, but when i tell it to fire up FA , FA starts loading then i get windows error window pop up saying "could not load client.dll" . It shows the correct path to steam...fa folder. I still have original sierra/half-life/fa folders to play in WON servers, where FA still works. I compared the client.dll of each. They are same size and date. No apparrent change. Tried renaming steam/fa client.dll to .bac and pasted sierra/fa client.dll into steam/fa folder. Same error. I can close everything to get back to desktop, but each time must reset desktop res back up from 640 to usual 1024. Game is set to run in 640 so i presume game failing to finish loading is reason for that. ANY IDEAS ON SOLUTION TO CLIENT.DLL NO LONGER BEING FOUND OR RECOGNIZED ? Quote
Random Posted March 5, 2004 Posted March 5, 2004 try the fix involving deleting the .blob file it worked for me Quote
tfen12 Posted March 5, 2004 Posted March 5, 2004 IM GETTING SAME PROBLEM!!!>......crap i hate steam Quote
Col Hogan Posted March 5, 2004 Author Posted March 5, 2004 Thanks, but I tried deleting blob file after reading here and there. Steam did a small update, faster then troulblesome one. I still get windows popup saying "unable to load library c:\programfiles\steam\...Firearms\cl_dlls\client.dll." Quote
Arnie Posted March 5, 2004 Posted March 5, 2004 I say only something: 3 days now and i have also problems with this ***** steam. First: no Server for Update. Second: no E-Mail Validation. Third: problems with the steam.exe (steam.exe has no rights ?). This night, i will make a complete new full installation. I hope it will work then. If not: AAAEEEGGGRRR. Quote
Col Hogan Posted March 5, 2004 Author Posted March 5, 2004 The client.dll which appears to be exactly the same as the same file in sierra\half-life\firearms\cl_dlls folder is :1,208 kb in file manager, properties show ...1.17 mb (1,236,992 bytes), 1,245,992 used, created feb 19, 2004 = steam install datemodified oct 4, 2004 = 2.8 update datearchive = yesThe same file in sierra folder is same except created oct 23, 2003 = 2.8 update install date.Since the sierra fa works fine on won servers still, it seems uninstalling/rebooting/reinstalling steam fa won't likely fix problem.Unless this file contains info relating to sierra or steam install which may be corrupt from first 2 failed steam updates 2 days ago. Renaming steam\fa client.dll and pasting sierra\fa client.dll gets same error trying to run fa in steam. Quote
-DoL--Laertes--Int-- Posted March 5, 2004 Posted March 5, 2004 I've had the same problem post-update with FA failing to load. An attemp to run FA exits Hl/FA with a remark about client.dll not loading. This same error occurred on 2 separate machines (same version of HL and steam installer). These systems have been running steam/FA flawlessly for several monts.I tried blob/steam.dll removal - nopeI uninstalled steam, reinstalled steam and copied my HL folder back under Steam Apps. - nopeI then copied then entire 400+ Mbyte HL folder, from under Steam Apps, from a 3rd PC that had survived the update process (it had used a different HL CD and version of steam installer). THIS WORKED, though I had to hand move sprite and cfg files to get the game back to normal.I've played 2 external server maps (on TA's server) and have loaded 2 maps standalone. NO CRASHES.I suspect the problem lies in some smaller subset of the copied folder, but can't guess what it is. Hope this helps.salut,--- Quote
Col Hogan Posted March 6, 2004 Author Posted March 6, 2004 I tried replacing client.dll.I then removed steam fa folder, ran registry cleaner, rebooted.Fa dissappeard from steam game list.Tried pasting sierra\fa folder where fa was in steam.FA reappeared in steam game list but still won't load client.dll library.Finally did add/remove uninstall of steam. (forgot to run reg cleaner after rebooting). Downloaded steam installer from steam and ran it.It logs in but it shows all former games in game list, except fa, and they all greyed out. To try them gets install window that asks for verification code it says it's emailing me. After many hrs no email.I guess without reg cleaned it contains info telling steam what games belong in my game list. fa gone from reg since i ran reg clean after deleting fa folder. so now i add/remove steam again, reboot, run reg cleaner to remove all steam keys, reboot, try steam installer again to see if it scans hard drive for useable games like it did when 1st installed.rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr 8-0 Quote
Col Hogan Posted March 6, 2004 Author Posted March 6, 2004 well the above did not work, it still wants validation code. Quote
Col Hogan Posted March 6, 2004 Author Posted March 6, 2004 [TBT]Gen_Tigerhawk figured out while i at work, to back up to previous window from validation code box window, change email address to send code to, (since i chose "use existing acct" instead of "create new acct" when i reinstalled steam, it seems to have problem sending to email already registered) ... she then got email with validate code within minutes ... upon entering code, steam started downloading half life ... i don't underdstand why the download since i thought it just copied my sierra folder half life before ... she got the half life working ... but when she tried fa she still got "unable to load library steam\...fa\...client.dll .While this is progress that may help some of you.Thanks to [TA] Shotty for client.dll error fix post in steam help desk forum.If no other option i may try it. But time short and just wanna play til have to "crash" so gonna hopefully find more servers then recently in original won network, which would be good idea for the many of us that are "out of steam" ;-) Quote
-DoL--Laertes--Int-- Posted March 6, 2004 Posted March 6, 2004 I've found the culprit that was producing the "client.dll failure to load" error on one of my FA systems (the other is at a location I can't check for a few days):There is a "IFC22.dll" file that was *missing* from my Half-Life directory on the system with the "client.dll" error. When I found and copied a IFC22.dll file from a working system to the system that wasn't working, the client.dll error went away (i.e. I can now play FA). Oddly, my original Half-Life folder has a copy of the IFCC22.dll that is a different size (196 vs 192 KB), but it also prevents the "client.dll" error.Final word: see if your'e missing IFC22.dll from your post-update SteamApps Half-Life folder and get/install a copy. Hope this helps.salut,--- Quote
Col Hogan Posted March 7, 2004 Author Posted March 7, 2004 A BIG THANKYOU TO [DoL]-Laertes-]Int[- . This worked for me and saved my sunday aftyernoon from hrs of removing all half life and reg keys to reinstall all games and steam. Planned work on truck then play here at night. YAHOO ;-)In other pc beside 1st 1, no uninstall ever done with anything, not even steam. Just copy the ifc22.dll file from sierra\half-life folder to steam\half-life folder.SALUTE !! Quote
Col Hogan Posted March 8, 2004 Author Posted March 8, 2004 Check for any files in sierra\half-life\ and sierra\half-life\firearms folders and subfolders that are missing from same folders in steam folders. Quote
Arnie Posted March 8, 2004 Posted March 8, 2004 Im happy that, after i deleted the blob. file, steam is now working proberly. But what i dont like is the fact, that for three days it has doesnt worked last week. Is it not possible to play FA without steam ? If everyone has a legal copy of Halflife, isnt it possible to play like all other multiplayer games ? Quote
Col Hogan Posted March 8, 2004 Author Posted March 8, 2004 I registered at steam days ago for forum posting helpful info from here to there but they have yet to activate my postability there. I've found many more helpful ideas here so maybe someone that can post at steam site could forward some of the useful info there from here, in the interest of reducing help seeking load on steam and freeing it up more for our stability of play.Thanks Quote
Col Hogan Posted March 9, 2004 Author Posted March 9, 2004 i'll post some of the above info that i didn't notice in steam, there, now. Quote
KingPin Posted March 16, 2004 Posted March 16, 2004 Arnie]Im happy that, after i deleted the blob. file, steam is now working proberly. But what i dont like is the fact, that for three days it has doesnt worked last week. Is it not possible to play FA without steam ? If everyone has a legal copy of Halflife, isnt it possible to play like all other multiplayer games ? it is, u just need to find a server running the wonids... there r some left, i think 4 of them in europe... but empty pretty often :-( i play on them anytime my steam crashes... as long as they don´t shut the Wonid servers down... KP Quote
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