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Brett
08-07-2003, 03:25 PM
Steam is terrible. Mine never works and right now i cant even log in it says: Failed to connect to any gerneraldirectory server. I redownloaded it and it still wont work. Why couldnt they just keep it the way it was.
BWMASTER
08-07-2003, 03:31 PM
Its still beta
Stigmata
08-07-2003, 03:55 PM
do you have a firewall enabled? that might be the problem, it's the only thing I can think of at the moment that might do that...
bonanzaguy
08-07-2003, 04:35 PM
it's cause you hate steam, so steam hates you back ;)
Brett
08-07-2003, 06:07 PM
No i dont have a firewall. It did work fine till all these updates for the new movies. It started the first update and got stuck on 61% so i restarted and then when it started up it upgraded but there was no media section and none of the servers worked so i uninstalled and tried again and now it gives me that error message. I give up i guess it hates me too.
SD1
08-07-2003, 06:38 PM
also hate it.

Its slow and bloated, uses too much system resource, slows down boot times, bah, pile a shit!

SD
Brett
08-07-2003, 07:13 PM
Alright, I finally got it to work atleast i think. Now i have got servers showing up so im happy.I have one question though i dont have anything about media anywhere is that suppose to be right? i know they havnt released the movies but i saw a pic of a person that had a media section on inthe games tab and mine doesnt. To all of you who are having problems just reinstall till it works, thats what works for me.
jhero
08-07-2003, 08:16 PM
Hmm, that pic is just people at work hacking files...
flox
08-07-2003, 09:16 PM
I love steam. It works great. At least for me :P
FatCombine
14-07-2003, 12:23 AM
Ok stupid question: where is the media section?
Wesisapie
14-07-2003, 05:28 AM
there is no media section yet
nico851
14-07-2003, 10:28 AM
you'll see media section when media is out
rogi
16-07-2003, 10:06 PM
steam sux... period
why? because it takes up resources, bandwidth and its full of pointless stuff (who needs _another_ IM/chat program). On top of that i want to know what it installs, where and how. Its evil imo. Hopefully valve comes with an alternative for steam.
Yatta
17-07-2003, 01:30 AM
I think Steam is great actually, it doesn't give me too many problems except when I try to play CS. :) It also has problems updating itself...
LPC
17-07-2003, 08:20 PM
no worries guys, by the time half-life 2 is released steam will be a great program.
[NST]Cifu
17-07-2003, 10:17 PM
Instead, even the i have only an dial-up connection, and the steam i'snt too usable without broadband conn...
ritcH
21-07-2003, 10:10 AM
The only problem I have with steam is the cs map loading times apart from that I don't notice anything i.e. loading times or have any problems I have an Athlon XP2200 with 512MB RAM so not exactly a great system either.

ritcH
82ross
21-07-2003, 10:51 AM
CS isnt so hot at loading maps on its own. It seems that every version takes longer and longer to load a map. Steam adds a few seconds on itself probably a few more validation routines than normal.

I miss the good old beta days sniff sniff.
FatCombine
22-07-2003, 01:22 AM
I feel sorry for those people whose Steam don't run so well... I've never had a problem/error with it. Is it just other peoples' computers and not Steam's problem?