Steam is getting me all steamed up! (groan)

[dabuddha]

Bought half life 2 today. Installed it. No problems yet. When I try to run it, it tells me it is unable to connect to Steam. It seems like it's trying to update steam. I even disabled my zone alarm and I'm still getting the same thing.

Steam is temporarily unavailable, please try later

is what it says every time i double click on steam. Any ideas?

TIA

UPDATE BELOW

 

[slightlyhuman]

fvck steam, its usually no problem over here but this whole week, it shuts down after adjusting res, anything, shuts down for any reason..

plain and simle. FVCK STEAM FVCK IT FVCK IT FVCK IT


sh1t i hate steam now

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[dabuddha]

I've tried reinstalling it, I've tried forwarding the ports it wanted me to forward, nada.

I'm becoming a sad panda

 

[Farmer]

I don't know about you guys, but stuff like Steam just seems like the wave of the future. I mean, it's tied to the internet, so pirating it would be extremely difficult. It's only a matter of time before other companies start adopting programs like it.

IF they could get it working right, it doesn't seem to be a problem. But, all I know is, I'll be playing a lot less games.

 

[dabuddha]

Originally posted by: Farmer
I don't know about you guys, but stuff like Steam just seems like the wave of the future. I mean, it's tied to the internet, so pirating it would be extremely difficult. It's only a matter of time before other companies start adopting programs like it.

IF they could get it working right, it doesn't seem to be a problem. But, all I know is, I'll be playing a lot less games.

I agree with you to a point. These moronic companies are going to start realizing that they're going to be losing a lot of money becaues of this crap then they ever did because of "piracy'

 

[w00t]

friends list : worthless
steam: takes up ram that i need
1.5 was better i got better frames but my comp is a pos so w/e

 

[dabuddha]

This is really great. I shelled out cash for this damn POS game and I can't even play it. So much anger :|

 

[daniel1113]

Check your firewall and router to make sure the appropriate ports are open. If that doesn't help, there are hundreds of posts on the Steam boards solely about connection issues. If all else fails, call Valve.

Steam, thus far, has performed extraordinarily well. It is fast, and just works (assuming your connection is set up properly).

 

[dabuddha]

Originally posted by: daniel1113
Check your firewall and router to make sure the appropriate ports are open. If that doesn't help, there are hundreds of posts on the Steam boards solely about connection issues. If all else fails, call Valve.

Steam, thus far, has performed extraordinarily well. It is fast, and just works (assuming your connection is set up properly).

I've forwarded all the ports that were in the support page. I've even set my pc as the DMZ. I've shutdown zone alarm and disabled Norton Antivirus. Is there a phone # for valve? I couldn't find one. I've also been going through the steam boards and no one has a solution for this problem. One suggestion was to delete the ClientRegistry.blob file and rerun it but it's still doing the same thing over and over.

 

[belazeru]

any one know how to run hl2 w/o that stupid steam program?

 

[daniel1113]

Originally posted by: belazeru
any one know how to run hl2 w/o that stupid steam program?

It can't be done... however, I presume in the coming months some programmer will figure out a way. I don't see why it is that important, though. Once you register HL2, you can play it offline anyway.

 

[dabuddha]

Damnit, it's still doing the same thing even now. WTF am I supposed to do to fix this.

 

[dabuddha]

http://www.sanika.net/steamerror.JPG

^--- error message

 

[ArmchairAthlete]

Steam has worked just fine for me with HL2 and CS:S =/

 

[slightlyhuman]

was just in a match, steam does what it does best, shuts down, gg

 

[CubicZirconia]

Originally posted by: dabuddha

Originally posted by: Farmer
I don't know about you guys, but stuff like Steam just seems like the wave of the future. I mean, it's tied to the internet, so pirating it would be extremely difficult. It's only a matter of time before other companies start adopting programs like it.

IF they could get it working right, it doesn't seem to be a problem. But, all I know is, I'll be playing a lot less games.

I agree with you to a point. These moronic companies are going to start realizing that they're going to be losing a lot of money becaues of this crap then they ever did because of "piracy'

I completely disagree with the bolded text. You're mad, and rightfully so. But if you're going to start making sweeping statements like that you need to realize that steam is still pretty new. Sure it has bugs, but they will be worked out. If you don't like content delivered over the net you had better get used to it, because that's the way things are going.

 

[daniel1113]

Originally posted by: CubicZirconia

Originally posted by: dabuddha

Originally posted by: Farmer
I don't know about you guys, but stuff like Steam just seems like the wave of the future. I mean, it's tied to the internet, so pirating it would be extremely difficult. It's only a matter of time before other companies start adopting programs like it.

IF they could get it working right, it doesn't seem to be a problem. But, all I know is, I'll be playing a lot less games.

I agree with you to a point. These moronic companies are going to start realizing that they're going to be losing a lot of money becaues of this crap then they ever did because of "piracy'

I completely disagree with the bolded text. You're mad, and rightfully so. But if you're going to start making sweeping statements like that you need to realize that steam is still pretty new. Sure it has bugs, but they will be worked out. If you don't like content delivered over the net you had better get used to it, because that's the way things are going.

Also, from what I can gather, Steam wasn't created to attack piracy... at least that wasn't the primary reason. Rather, Valve realized that by delivering content directly to customers (which is finally possible thanks to many recent technological innovations), they couldn eliminate the need for a distributor and improve the distribution of updates/patches. Within a few years, just about every major software company will be doing the same. Hopefully Steam will remain ahead of the competition by continuing to improve.

 

[dabuddha]

Update: Well I figured a work around.

Background: Here's my network setup

Cable Modem --- WRT54G ----- (wireless connection) ------ WAP54G ---- BFSW411 (I think. It's the 4 port switch by linksys) ----- main computer

I have the WAP54G in bridge mode and it works for everything. I ended up installing Steam on my server computer which is connected via hardline to the WRT54G. That was able to connect and update fine. I then copied the whole valve directory onto my main computer. I then had to reinstall Half life 2. Now it works fine. I am able to connect to steam. They really need to get their sh!t fixed because this is ridiculous.

 

[daniel1113]

Originally posted by: dabuddha
Update: Well I figured a work around.

Background: Here's my network setup

Cable Modem --- WRT54G ----- (wireless connection) ------ WAP54G ---- BFSW411 (I think. It's the 4 port switch by linksys) ----- main computer

I have the WAP54G in bridge mode and it works for everything. I ended up installing Steam on my server computer which is connected via hardline to the WRT54G. That was able to connect and update fine. I then copied the whole valve directory onto my main computer. I then had to reinstall Half life 2. Now it works fine. I am able to connect to steam. They really need to get their sh!t fixed because this is ridiculous.

Glad to hear you got it working, but that's hardly Valve's fault. You are the one with the trainwreck of wires and switches... lol.

 

[dabuddha]

Originally posted by: daniel1113

Originally posted by: dabuddha
Update: Well I figured a work around.

Background: Here's my network setup

Cable Modem --- WRT54G ----- (wireless connection) ------ WAP54G ---- BFSW411 (I think. It's the 4 port switch by linksys) ----- main computer

I have the WAP54G in bridge mode and it works for everything. I ended up installing Steam on my server computer which is connected via hardline to the WRT54G. That was able to connect and update fine. I then copied the whole valve directory onto my main computer. I then had to reinstall Half life 2. Now it works fine. I am able to connect to steam. They really need to get their sh!t fixed because this is ridiculous.

Glad to hear you got it working, but that's hardly Valve's fault. You are the one with the trainwreck of wires and switches... lol.

My network setup might be unique but it works for everything else. Only steam has problems with it.