Acideyeliner

Bought this during the steam sale. I've spent two long days trying to fix this. Restarted steam dozens upon dozens of times, running as admin, did the REGEDIT thing, restarted computer, disabled antivirus, verified integrity of game cache probably at least 50 times. It always says failed to validate 1 file, but it never actually downloads the new file. I have completely deleted everything related to Arma 2 and redownloading multiple times, get the same issue. I even went so far as to move my computer back to a week ago to make sure I got everything. I can't even see my key, it gets stuck at retrieving key. But I do have my receipt, and my steam inventory history (actually it wasn't traded, so I don't even think my inventory history would record it...). Is there any way I can show this to the mods to get a direct download from the Arma 2 site? From the hundreds of Arma 2 threads I've read, this is a Steam issue. I have opened a ticket on steam asking for my key, or a new key. No reponse yet. I've had issues before, usually with games with Games for Windows Live, and nothing has been as frustrating as this. I'd just like to play, and I don't know who I can turn to to fix it. I even got a friend that had the same problem to take control of my computer, do what he did, and not even that worked. Just a thought... Could I transfer a friend's download to my computer and put in my Serial key somewhere (hopefully the key I can retrieve through Steam support) and get that to work? Since the problem is with Steam downloading it? PC specs in case it matters: Win7 64-bit AMD Radeon 6770 HD 4 GB RAM 6 core processor @ 2.5 GHz

Bought this during the steam sale. I've spent two long days trying to fix this. Restarted steam dozens upon dozens of times, running as admin, did the REGEDIT thing, restarted computer, disabled antivirus, verified integrity of game cache probably at least 50 times. It always says failed to validate 1 file, but it never actually downloads the new file. I have completely deleted everything related to Arma 2 and redownloading multiple times, get the same issue. I even went so far as to move my computer back to a week ago to make sure I got everything. I can't even see my key, it gets stuck at retrieving key. But I do have my receipt, and my steam inventory history (actually it wasn't traded, so I don't even think my inventory history would record it...). Is there any way I can show this to the mods to get a direct download from the Arma 2 site? From the hundreds of Arma 2 threads I've read, this is a Steam issue. I have opened a ticket on steam asking for my key, or a new key. No reponse yet. I've had issues before, usually with games with Games for Windows Live, and nothing has been as frustrating as this. I'd just like to play, and I don't know who I can turn to to fix it. I even got a friend that had the same problem to take control of my computer, do what he did, and not even that worked. Just a thought... Could I transfer a friend's download to my computer and put in my Serial key somewhere (hopefully the key I can retrieve through Steam support) and get that to work? Since the problem is with Steam downloading it? PC specs in case it matters: Win7 64-bit AMD Radeon 6770 HD 4 GB RAM 6 core processor @ 2.5 GHz