Today's Steam Thread

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Edited by [user="174692"] @ [time="1063463668"]

And to people that say give it time a few days ...



I have a few points about this .......now i have spent a lot of time with remote deployment over very large networks through wan and lan ...altiris/ghost/ads/.net etc etc ......and one thing is for sure bandwidth is always the first bridge to cross....now if we are having problems now with only about half the cs playes and dod guys trying to steam power their rig's up .....what is it going to be like every time updates are released or new titles like hl2 come out, does it mean a week of flatlining cause steam cant cope with the bandwidth...will people who pay get first crack, with us not so stupid people always being at the back of the que ?..



And while all this updating and new installs are going on ,what we are seeing is crippling of the game servers, and people are getting a ton of errors because their install has the odd bit of dud or missing code cause of having to retrying so many times and prievously failed installs ....



Steam is a great idea and worked well during the beta , but i always thought it's setup would be it's a weak point (more like gaping wound)..I already have gave it 3 days and it is still as bad as day 1...How long should we give it then ?

[murdoch82]

a little heads up to peeps who are having problems



if u are up to the stage of "updating platform" and nothing seems to be happening. close steam and re open and try again. Some times it takes 20 mins to update but i have updated in less than 10 secs.



if u are up to the stage of updating cs or any other game for that matter. Dont do it manually. click on the arrow that says dont keep this game updated and change it to always keep this game updated.



Now send your steam client to the system tray and watch telly or read a book. dont get frustrated, just let the program dl itself. if it crashes. simply reopen steam and it will resume the update automatically from where it left off.



of course to avoid all the above problems. DL steam with full cache and 1.6 built into 1 simple download. The links are available from various sites.



Hope it helps some

Murdo

[VonTreigo]

someone make a wonid valadation server!

[Purple_93]

yay mine works now-

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now I know why some people hate the shield- -_-

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gaili is cool, though it doesn't counter the shield at all-

[shurcool]

you mean steamID? and how would they know everyone's steamID, huh? u'd have to wait 'till every1 changes their wonID to their steamID in their CAL profile or something.

[little deity]

I dreamed I had the new install downloaded and it was running and I was playing and winning!!!!!!!!!!! then ***poof*** I woke up at my computer and nothingness....

[diggydoolans]

Downloading Steaminstall_CS now but still have HALF an hour left this crap has taken me 3 days so far as the original install continues 2 crash every time I start CS. CS starts 7 bars load up then Steam crashes & appears as not responding in Applications. Hopefully the Steaminstall_CS file will solve everybodys problems!

[pl@yer]

Yah finally got Steam and CS 1.6 to work. Just finished playing on de_dust.



I try getting it to work yesterday for the whole day and it didn't work........then today seeing the Steam w/ cache file I downloaded that in 50 min from FilePlanet(my friend has a subscription, so no line!!) then CS was running and I was playing in 10 mins!!!!!

[murdoch82]

yeah i think the best option is the full cache with the 1.6 DL. really 50% of the links available should be the full install. It takes a lot of the pressure off the steam servers. Glad to see people getting success from this programme now :)



Murdo

[NITREX_GT]

i left this damn thing on since 11:30pm last night!

right now, its 11 am :| and its only converting Base Goldsrc :P

[Solitude]

yeah...so I got the CS update to about 32 seconds left but it doesn't want to finish....just sits there at 32s left.



YAY VALVE!!

[diggydoolans]

10 minutes till steaminstall_CS finishes dowloading i will then report if CS works!

[dastickiemonkie]

i just downloaded steam and got cs.16 to work.....

no comment here... just laughing at alll u ppl who has troubles



p3 866mhz

intel 32mb card <---sux

128mb ram

128k modem

[diggydoolans]

good luck 2 u its taken me 3 days!

[Ghengis]

Ok firstly I have dled and steam works pretty much as well as in beta, a few retries and all is fine.

TheAcorn wrote..

Anyone tried skin support in steam?



I've had quite a distaste for the regular CS skins for over a year now... If I can't have my ultimate M4 and chrome deagle, I'd rather not play. :P



I perused this comment thingie, but I didn't happen to see any mention of it, and I'm in process of downloading Steam now... And I hope that I can use my skins, CS is great, but its so damn dated, they really make it better... visually.



Thanks in advance for the first guy who tries this.

Harmless wrote..

I haven't had a chance to actually try my skins, as I keep getting hung up on a few screens. But I know for sure the changelog lists skin support as an addition. Whether or not it works though..Well, who knows?

Skins supoprt in the changelog is only for the STEAM GUI NOT FOR MODELS; if u put custom model s n the models folde rin steam/cache/ etc etce it will re dl resources i believe. Wait fro a nnouncement that custom models will be supported