Getting the game to work without Steam!

[Jaws2002]

Maybe your instal is messed up. Verify the game instal.

Start steam and do this:

Click on "Library", right click on "il-2 cliffs of dover" select "properties". In the new menu that opens click on "Local files" and then "verify integrity of game cache".
let steam check and fix your instal. I had few crashes here and there and this fixed few of them.

Good luck.

[flightdok]

Steam will not load. It starts, then gives a steam updater window that says updating steam, it gets to 26% of the update x 3 times then quits and says "steam temporarily unavailible try again later"............if steam won't load, then my game won't load either.

[Anvilfolk]

I'm pretty sure you're better off asking these questions over on Steam Support - it's not related to CoD at all, it seems.

That might happen if you have an unstable internet connection. I've had Steam break on me once, and I've been using it almost since it was out. Generally, I find it works pretty nicely, and it's been on a few of my computers.