Borderlands Forum

So some recent update to Steam/Borderlands broke the (Steam version) of the game for me. When ever I try to load the game I am told it is "currently unavailable". All my other Steam games load fine for me & Borderlands itself works fine on my Windows install. This issue is also present on current Wine release so I am assuming it was a change in Steam/the game itself to cause the issue.

Open to suggestions on solving it though :)

Regards,
~Jeff

Hi Jeff,

This is total conjecture here, but it may be so related. Somewhere between the COG-8.0
release and 'the now' of COG-8.1.3 (on linux), something changed in the way COG handles
some software interactions, which 'coincidentally' as it were has also 'somehow fixed'
a couple of other titles I have, that were previously not working with COG-8.0 - I've
had a bit of a natter about it with Jack, and the current 'best guess' answer at present
is that some of the code changes/bug fixes related to getting L4D2 running properly, also
contained (coincidentally as it were) the necessary code fixups needed by my (and possibly
other) games titles. The problem I was having with titles previously, related to the
online registration process needed to reg./activate the downloaded/installed software -
this has suddenly started to work for these titles.

I am not saying the issues may be related ; what I'm exampling here is that changes
incorporated in the most recent COG releases have definitely impacted on at least
2 or more titles that I know of - that said, if I view that coincidence as a positive
side-effect of recent changes in COG, perhaps you are seeing the counter-case for this
situation...ie; the recent COG changes have coincidentally caused bad side-effects in
the Borderlands case? Seeing as the Steam frontend and the game titles I'm referring
to are both using the ieframe component, I wouldn't mind betting in a world full of
coincidences, that somewhere herein the truth hides....

In my case (or in any case), you'd need to downgrade your COG installation, and slowly
slowly work your way up from an 8.0 installation until you find which of the recent
8.x.x releases actually breaks Borderland ; then via changelog, you've got some idea
of which change/addition actually broke things...which of course, makes for very good
material if you want to submit a support ticket (or email info@codeweavers.com) about
the matter - generally speaking, the devs here don't want to fix something at the cost
of breaking something else, and they like to know abot these things...

Cheers!

maybe 9.0 will fix it all for us! :D

The latest patch added SecuROM DRM, so perhaps that's it?

James Andrewartha wrote:

The latest patch added SecuROM DRM, so perhaps that's it?

That seems the most likely to me. One which I suspect may not be resolvable. Or am I wrong? I suspect we have merely to hope steam alter their decision. Securom is such a pain as it only effects legitimate users. Given that Steam already effectively ensures only legitimate owners use the software it seems wrong to add extra controls and spyware to it.

Guess I just wasted £30 plus vat buying borderlands

James Andrewartha wrote:

The latest patch added SecuROM DRM, so perhaps that's it?

Ouch...could be the culprit, however, some other SecuROM systems work in crossover
(and some don't...depends on what's being asked of the software)...

Cheers!

cxgames/bin/wine fails with

err:module:map_image Could not map section .extra, file probably truncated
warn:module:load_dll Failed to load module L"E:\Games\Steam\SteamApps\common\borderlands\Binaries\Borderlands.exe"; status=c000007b
wine: could not load L"E:\Games\Steam\SteamApps\common\borderlands\Binaries\Borderlands.exe": Bad EXE format for

while wine 1.1.33 does the same, although it segfaults before the last line.

Yep, fails under all Wine versions as well (which is why I am inclined to believe it was a change in BL and not CXGames).

Guess I won't be losing my Win7 partition any time soon >.<

~Jeff

Anyone have a way of making the game work? I really wanna play Borderlands. =(

Hello, I tried installing this game from the disk, and the culprit is definitely SecuROM. I went through all the procedures that their website recommended, but to no luck. I have no idea what getting this to work entail or even if it is possible, but from what I understand, the game itself runs under Crossover, so if this SecuROM thing is worked out, then they can add this app to the compatible list.

Even when using steam... activation fails... manual acitvation... hmm... where to get the serial number?? anybody an idea?

thx

The problem is caused by SecuROM and by replacing 'Borderlands.exe' with the No-DVD/Fixed EXE v1.3.1 (v1.3.1.0) I am able again to play the game. I also own all DLC and it works well after running the manual activation.

If you are using Steam, your product codes are shown by right-clicking on 'Borderlands' from the library then selecting 'View game CD key'.

Hi,

Thanks Eric for getting to the bottom of this -- just to clarify things,
the No-DVD/Fixed EXE v1.3.1 (v1.3.1.0) is the official patch for this
title -- search for it on the 'net, google is your friend...

Cheers!

Still does not work. right clicking on game in steam does not give option to view game key, game will not launch with no cd patch either.

After the latest patch (1.4.1) Borderlands is working fine for me on Steam without having to do anything. I don't have any DLC installed.