Have you tried the fixed that someone suggested in this steam forum thread?

Hey that is me. :P I know manual patch is solving the problem? But hey this is Steam version why do I need to manually update the game? And as I said vanilla version is not working properly.

props to KingofGNG this is some of the funniest stuff I have read in a while.
Also, the term milf is derogatory, exploiting her children? c'mon.
anyway, I do choose to use steam, mostly because I didn't have a choice in the beginning and now I like to use it to update people on what games I own so we can play multiplayer or something.
Anyway, yeah Mike, KingOfGnG in my opinion is one helluva troll, my personal favorite tbh. He's always cranky, he never slips. I don't think he's had a single positive post in his whole lifetime here at GOG.com.
Anyway, I respect him, maybe I don't take him seriously, but it's always interesting to see what he has to say, he almost never makes "yup." posts.

Very funny guys :)
But that would be kind of a bribery after the fact, and that does sound terrible doesn't it?
For now you'll have to make due with the +1.
Fair enough ?
But all joking aside, i really liked your attitude Gexecuter. Good Stuff.

His attitude? I didnt get that.
But i suppose the +1 is alright. But, next game steam borks up and they keep selling, the story is all mine. ; )

He's a riot, I gotta admit. I prefer Fungoo as my favorite troll here though. At least he has some constructive trolling. Is that an oxymoron?

All I know is I was able to get Fallout 3 on Steam without any non-Steam DRM, and that's a beautiful thing. Also, no SecuROM on most of EA's catalog there.

I liked the way he saw something wrong and actually did something about it. I meant i really liked his good, positive, active, attitude about the problem.
As for the next game Steam messes up, if it's ok with Gexecuter, the story is all yours :)

Why does everyone keep mentioning DRM, STEAM doesn't use DRM (at least not in the restrictive sense like SecuROM and the likes), although it does sell third party games like Red Alert 3 and GTA4 that come with DRM but this is the developers' decision, VALVe has no say in the matter. Now, if they have known for two months that this game didn't work properly anymore then they should've at least stopped selling the game. But they sell these games through STEAM, it's still the game developers' responsibility to provide support for their games, Not VALVe's.
I've been using STEAM since 2004 and have purchased several games through them, and I haven't had a single complaint. It had some problems when it first came out but STEAM today is a very stable and commendable platform for buying and playing games.

Steam is DRM.
If your internet goes down Steam says "no game for you!"; while Steam can be run in "offline mode" you must actually be online in order to enable it. If Valve bans your account for hacking or whatever you lose access to your purchases. Many games are region-locked to the country of origin, meaning you can't use Steam while overseas or buy a Steam game there and then have it work when you get home. All games are locked into the client and only a handful can be run without it, so if Valve ever removes a game from their service or shuts down entirely you are totally unable to play the games you have legally purchased. In some cases, titles on Steam have stopped working due to a client update, leaving customers totally unable to play until Steam resolves the incompatibility.
Steam is DRM.

That sucks.
I'm still waiting for Rockstar New England to fix Bully: Scholarship on the PC -- Retail and Steam Editions.
I own the Retail Edition, BTW.

a VAC ban will not make you lose your games, just make it so you can't play on a VAC enabled server. And, I've enabled offline mode, while offline, and had full access to most of my games that were already installed just fine. :P

I was one of the original people who complained in that thread about Earth 2160. It was disqusting how long they took to fix the problem, it just seems that after it gets some attention they can be bothered pulling their fingers out and do something instead of focusing on the massive money maker games.

I understand what you're saying and most agree with you. While Steam is DRM, there are worst kinds of DRM.
But this thread was about something different, not DRM related.
They kept a game up for sale for two months when they knew the game was broken and that they had no fix for it at the time.
Also, they pretty much ignored that when their customers pointed out the situation, but the moment it hit the web press, they removed the game from the storefront.
And that's wrong, regardless of the name of the platform: Steam, Impulse, D2D, EADM, GOG, whatever. It's wrong.
If it was an honest mistake, fine, that happens. But it wans't. They received countless support mails about this and kept answering with their typical coy/paste answer.