Still not worked, keeps saying cannot connent to the internet.

Done the steam, done it all, and all failed so far.

off to work soon, but going to keep it on and my dad or brother can keep trying it again every 10minutes and if the laptops still on at half 3 when I get in, well i hope its installed so i can have a couple of hours on it before I go to bed.

My mate hasn't got the net and text me saying "it's a nightmare, I'll take it back tmoz" He doesn't realise every other sod on the planet (apart from a few of you lot) can't install the damm bludy thing.

Mine was posted on Tuesday from Play.com and I still don't have it. Pissed off with that really, I thought i'd 'pre-ordered' it, I end up getting it late.

Good start to my season with Man Utd.

Sold Rooney to Real for £40m and put a couple of audacious bids in for Torres and Amauri.

Finally got mine activated but it won't load. It's coming up with 'Cannot run game. Failed to set up graphics system'.

Any ideas?

My only problem was actually opening an account with Steam. It kept saying it couldn't be done and to try again later. Once that was done (after about 20 attempts), and the 2 hours it took for the actual game to download, I'm straight in.

Not had any of the access problems people seem to be having. Maybe as its a bit later everyone's sorted!

Anyway, am Leeds and am 3-0 up at HT in my opening friendly with Guiseley (Beckford 2 and Becchio)

I've finally been able to activate the game, and have started a game with Bradford City. I've only played one game in the season so far, which was a three two win over Rochdale thanks to two goals from my new signing Doudin (yes it does appear that he's as good as he was on 200icon_cool.gif and an own goal from Nathan Stanton. I'm a little dissapointed that I threw away a two goal lead at home before Doudin scored the winner but it's a good result to get started with.

I keep getting random occasional black flashes in the bottom third of my screen. Not got a clue why it is happening. I'm on vista. Any idea what's up?

its a joke and a complete balls up! game uploaded onto steam, tried inputting game code and it won't connect to the internet!! friggin enigma code was simpler to crack than this!!

Have you tried exiting the screen where you imput the key code and going back into steam? I had no luck in activating my account so left Stream, then went back in about an hour later to try again only to be allowed straight into the game, without it even asking for my key code.

finally managed to get the game going about 12.45, too knackered to play it now!!

Was going to hang fire ordering it until a few of the bigs have been fixed. That said, going to the Farsley game this afternoon and they're offering copies for £5 to season ticket holders.

Is it worth bothering with?

Going to buy it today, had a blast on my mates yesterday.

Sign Keirrison and Sofiane Feghouli, not sure if they've been mentioned...

Oh yeah, I was on my mates and for some pathetic reason, every time I searched a player's name, it would put like 2-3 of each letter in, e.g. Aanndreees Iinniiestaa

For a fiver, yes!

13 games into my first season with Bradford City now and curently sitting top of the league with 30 points. Doudin is showing himself to be every bit the goalscorer that he was on 2008 with 8 in 13 games in the league so far. My only concern is that I'm conceding far too many goals away from home. At the moment we are scoring enough goals to compensate for our defensive frailties on the road but we really need to step up in defense if we want to keep up our impressive early season form.

It did that on the demo, i just thought it was a bug on the Demo, Obviously not though...

Right, installed it, even played it. But can't find it stored on my Laptop (vista) anywhere.
Now I admit I'm no computer genuis, so could be me been stupid. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

If you've got steam its on there, well it is on mine anyway. hth

C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\common\football manager 2009\

If you installed via STEAM.

Installed, un-installed, installed etc etc. All of the time thought my saved game of Manchester City was always on. Just could never find the game to click on, on desktop.

Think now, I've cracked it via steam.

Thanks for your help

Right back again, worked on steam

Problem is, it keeps blinking and need to sort it really, as it'll make me bozzeyed. when i had it on earlier, it didn't flash, so i'm presuming it's something to do with the steam

Help again would be greatly appreciated.

Try closing the STEAM games window. Or it might be the overlay causing the problem.

Same here.

There are some things that are suggested to download if you have a quick look around on the internet. None of them have worked for me so it's going back tomorrow.

I don't pre-order from play.com. they've never gotten me anything on the day it's supposed to be out

If you mean an occasional random black flash on the screen, then I had the same problem. Got to control panel>system>device manager?update device drivers>display adapters> then double click on the graphics driver choose drivers in the new window and then choose update driver. That updates your driver via the internet, and after a restart, it should work perfectly and not flash anymore. Worked perfectly for me.