Please Help With Steam Downloads

[ricleo2]

I have been trying to download Sin and the new Half-Life game for several days now to no avail. When I clink on the appropriate link I get "this page can not be displayed". Steam tech support has not returned my emails. Any help is always appreciated.

 

[rudder]

need a little info the environment... firewalls, routers, etc.

 

[JohnAn2112]

You should see them in the list of Steam games. Right click on them and click Install.

 

[ricleo2]

Well I have tried disabling my firewall (outpost)and my antivirus, which does not help, and I have no router. Could this have something to do with Java?

 

[Parasitic]

Download the new Steam update through Internet Explorer. Firefox apparently cannot interpret the steam:// protocol command.

 

[ricleo2]

Download the new Steam update through Internet Explorer. Firefox apparently cannot interpret the steam:// protocol command.

Thanks for the suggestion but I am using Internet Explorer. Any other suggestions please?

 

[MSCoder610]

Are they in your game list (just not installed), or do you need to purchase them first?

 

[igowerf]

Are you running Peer Guardian with http blocking? I know the PG blocks Valve's update servers by default so Steam doesn't work unless I whitelist Valve's servers.

 

[ricleo2]

Are they in your game list (just not installed), or do you need to purchase them first?

No. I need to purchase. But when I click the purchase link is when I get the "page can not be displayed".

Are you running Peer Guardian with http blocking? I know the PG blocks Valve's update servers by default so Steam doesn't work unless I whitelist Valve's servers.

Nope, not running Peer Guardian either. Thanks for the responses. Anymore? This is getting frustrating.

 

[mb]

Turn your security and privacy/cookie settings all the way down in IE.

 

[Injury]

Originally posted by: supafly
Turn your security and privacy/cookie settings all the way down in IE.

yeah, this is my thoughts, too.

It sounds like you aren't having a problem with steam, but a problem with the steampowered website letting you on to a secure page. If your settings are too high, sometimes IE doesn't tell you, it just cancels the loading and gives the Page Cannot Be Displayed.

 

[ricleo2]

Turn your security and privacy/cookie settings all the way down in IE.

Well I just tried that to no avail. Thanks anyway. Anybody have any other suggestions? Thanks.

 

[ricleo2]

Bump

 

[WileCoyote]

I'm having the exact same problem... were you able to fix it?

edit: fixed it. FYI I went to steampowered.com and reinstalled Steam and now it works. It looks like when I initially installed, the Steam:// protocol was not registered in Windows. Works fine now.