Please help before i will smash my pc!

[AnthoniusII]

Steam platform is the worst desision CA made for its games EVER!!
So here is the problem.
I made a format of my pc.
I have a retail version of Shogun II plus i bought RoS expansion.
I re installed Steam ,conected to my acount and then proceed to the game instalation from the two disks.
After instalation was completed steam downloaded files for almost 3 hours.
I assumed that it was the improvent packs and my expansion.
Then when dowloading was finished i pressed the shortcut to play the game.
NOTHING!
So i payed money for a game and its expansion and i CAN NOT play it when ever i want!!!
So before i smash my pc on my anger can someone offer me a solution?

[irishron]

Contact Steam library to see if it's in there. If not, contact Steam support with the original email and its activation code.

[A Barbarian]

Don't install from disks. Only activate the game on steam and completely install from there.

[AnthoniusII]

Thanks guys i will unistall the game and follow your advices!

[A Barbarian]

which OS are u running?

[AnthoniusII]

W7 Ultimate and i installed the Steam and game in D disc instead of C.

[irishron]

It should not make any difference which drive.

[AnthoniusII]

I know i had it there before the pc format.

[irishron]

It's Steam being its usual stupid self. Do it A Barbarian's way and hopefully it turns out okay.

[AnthoniusII]

It's Steam being its usual stupid self. Do it A Barbarian's way and hopefully it turns out okay.

Fingers crossed..

[AnthoniusII]

NOTHING!
When i select The Shogun II shortcut it activates Steam's winbot.exe something and the process stops there!
CA I WANT MY GAME BACK OR MY MONEY BACK !!!

[Totalheadache]

all other games are fine with steam? have you contacted them or CA directly?

[AnthoniusII]

all other games are fine with steam? have you contacted them or CA directly?

I have no other games on Steam.
I am trying to contact.

[AnthoniusII]

I have talked to a lawyer and he said that i can move legaly against both CA and Steam simply because i DO NOT have 100% access to my game that i payed.

[irishron]

Go for it. Let us know how it goes.

[AnthoniusII]

Does any member of CA development team,has any kind of solution?
Or i sould proceed to what my sig says?

[irishron]

CA Developers hang out at http://forums.totalwar.com, not in this backwater site. If they did, odds are GED would have already got an earful from them about your last post.

[Dictator Of The Roman Republic]

after installing on steam, quit from steam, restart your computer, open steam, let it login and load ect, then try, It worked for me when I had the same problem for a different game.

[Vimes]

You do know that there is an indication from what you have posted that your PC could be infected by malware / virus (backdoor trojan) etc...?

http://www.fixfiles.net/winbot.exe.html

[wulfgar610]

NOTHING!
When i select The Shogun II shortcut it activates Steam's winbot.exe something and the process stops there!
CA I WANT MY GAME BACK OR MY MONEY BACK !!!

I just got W7 HE 64 bit myself, and I don't have winbox.exe in my system 32. So there may be a conflict with steam here.

The bleeping computer thinks winbox is a trojan.

Have a check in your config under startup and if winbot is there then disable it.

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/startups/