Help!

[darthshearer]

Thought I'd get a bit of praccy in for tonights TFC game and I cant connect!

It comes uyp with an error of
"Current Half-Life CD Key is in use please try again later"

Eh? Whats up?

 

[Pro]v[etheus]

This usually happens if you either a) have a dodgy copy of HL. b) lent your legit copy to a mate. c) some barstand has nicked your CDKEY by using a KEYGEN proggy. d) you have an OEM copy which carries the same CDKEY as most other OEM copies as Yaesu, his wife, myself and my boss found out (bloody annoying).

If you do have a legit copy then you can contact Sierra via email and report the problem. I believe they will exchange it if you send it back with a proof of purchase.

Hope that has helped you.

 

[darthshearer]

Hmm

I do have a legit version. I have no prob playing CS and I get the same error when I try and play DoD!

 

[Pro]v[etheus]

does this happen all the time ?

 

[darthshearer]

Yeh and now its ruined me game of TFC toneet man!

 

[Mr Flibble]

this may sound insane, but try changing your name before connecting. I don't know if it still applies but a long time ago I had a similar problem that was caused by my attempt to connect with a stupidly long name. I changed it to a short name and hey presto got WON authentication. Worth a shot

 

[darthshearer]

Nah still pants.

Changed my name to M and P and Creo and anything else small

This time it got furthur and started to connect and then said I needed WON autentication as I was denied it.

? ? ? ? ? ?

 

[Mr Flibble]

I'm presuming you've tried the bog standard reinstall. Seems unlikely someone else is using your CD-key if you get it all the time. All I can think of tbh.