Having one bugger of a time connecting to an online game.

[Quintilian]

Yes, quite a few of us have to use this work around.

[Shempl00]

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1694499

This thread fixed it for me, it involved adding - (dashes) in between every 4 letters of the cd key in the registry and locking that string so that it could not be edited/deleted

I've also added the key to the 64bit version of the registry and done the same thing to that, so far so good.