Football Manager 2011 Not Opening

[rswan]

Hi,

I've been playing FM For yeeeears and I've never had this problem before. I double click the FM Icon and nothing happens. When I do this again, it says Football Manager 2011 Is already running. I tried restarting my computer many many times which had no effect, then I tried pressing Control > Alt > Delete and closing the process FM.exe, which didn't work either. This has just happened after I recently did a system restore. I noticed quite a few threads on different websites with this problem, but most of them just told me to do what i've already done. Any ideas?

 

[Jack Fulham]

You tried to uninstall then reinstall?

 

[rswan]

You tried to uninstall then reinstall?

Yeah, backed up saves and uninstalled. Re-installed, added saves, still no joy :'(

 

[Tharros]

Have you got the game installed via Steam?

Make sure Steam is in online mode:
Start Steam
Steam > Go Online

Otherwise try deleting Steam's blob files:
C:\Program Files\Steam
Delete AppUpdateStats.blob and ClientRegistry.blob

As a last resort, delete everything in the steam folder, except steam.exe and the steamapps folder (where all your games are kept)

 

[rswan]

Have you got the game installed via Steam?

Make sure Steam is in online mode:
Start Steam
Steam > Go Online

Otherwise try deleting Steam's blob files:
C:\Program Files\Steam
Delete AppUpdateStats.blob and ClientRegistry.blob

As a last resort, delete everything in the steam folder, except steam.exe and the steamapps folder (where all your games are kept)

Cheers for the reply. Unfortunately neither of this worked, I actually thought Steam was ruined after I deleted the blob files as I got an error to start with, but when it got back up and running ti still never worked. Any other ideas?

---------- Post added at 07:15 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:26 PM ----------

Uninstalled and re-installed another two times, unusually worked on the 3rd attempt. No idea what went wrong, thanks for the recommendations though!