Me and a friend have each other on the Steam friends list to play CounterStrike.

I can join CS games he is already in but I appear to be offline or not in a game if he tries it the other way around. I have set my status to be 'online'.

If I access the friends list within CounterStrike then I see a message saying 'Steam must be running for this to work' which it is.

Also Counterstrike crashed if I try and save a server as a favourite.

I have reinstalled everything and deleted all files before reinstalling but still no joy.

Any advice please?

1. Reinstall Steam

2. Defrag Computer

3. Check for Spyware/Mal-Ware

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Cpt Snow {Reveille}