I played NS WAY early beta when i first heard about it playing old CS. I have since stoped playing CS and got a new computer with HL2. I reinstalled NS but i for some reason cant either find it in the My Games on steam or the NS.exe file to run it directly.
any ideas?

NS won't appear in My Games, because it's not official. It will be under the 3rd party games list. If it does not show then exit steam, go into your steam directory and delete the file client.blob then when you restart steam it will update your settings and NS should be displayed. There is no NS.exe as it is a mod and can only be run within half-life.

Is Half-Life 1 installed on your pc? You can't play NS without it.

i do not have half life 1.
i do have the orginal CS CD that comes with most of the popular HL1 mods.
but my CS is not steam ready becuase a friend stole my CD key so i need to mail it in and have it reset.
i played NS back in the day with only the files that comes with the orginal CS CD.

You need a hl or cs cd key to play.

ok cool i got CS but like i said its not on steam yet guess i cant wait a while longer

Thanks for the help guys

ok.... i deleted clientregistry.blob, it updated, and NS stilll isnt there... it's installed right, or at least i think so (...\steamapps\(email)\Natural-Selection)
any suggestions?
and i do have a valid hl/cs key

I believe you need to install in to ...\steamapps\(email)\halflife.

you have to install it to

\Steam\SteamApps\<name>@<provider>\half-life\
this will make a folder named ns where to ns installed

\Steam\SteamApps\<name>@<provider>\half-life\ns

(the folder is called nsp in someversions to..)

Hi!

I have downloaded NS 3 beta, and i´dont know why it doesn´t work. I have done all things what you have sayed in this forum but it´s not working. (i dont know how i can play it) In downloads there is a text what says i have to run half-life throuh the steam and "load a training course". Can you help.

So where exactly do you have it installed? By running HL once they mean you just have to load a random game of HL to make sure it has all files up to date.

I nahe installed it into steams files! I wanna know how can i play ns if it doesn´t show in my games and there´s no ns.exe. And in steam i cant find ns, servers.

NS can only be run when intergrated into steam/half-life.
First you have to make sure steam is installed and working. Then play a quick game of hl1 so the directory is created.
When you go to install ns, the default path that automatically is displayed should be the right place: C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\accountname\half-life
NS should now appear in the my games list, might need to exit and start steam again. This is the only way you can play NS (or launching from the servers list when you click to connect to an NS game).

Thanks!
There´s only one problem. When i got to install ns setup says "there´s no steam installed". I have installed steam! I think thats why the default directory of installation is not .....steamapps\......