Today's Steam Thread

[ichor]

@NU8|$ wrote..

Does n e 1 kno if Steam is just down right now or what? Cuz when i open it and try to login it waits a while then gives me an error...n e 1 have n e ideas?

I'm downloading CS at the moment.. it's just sucking right now cause there are sooo many people trying to use a small amount of bandwidth to download thousands of gigs of CS files. Keep trying or give up and try again in a few days

[Delta2]

Valve must think that only 500 people play CS, with the amount of bandwith aviable for ANYTHING they release

[thor2488]

http://www.petitiononline.com/Steam/petition.html



Just around 17606 more signature to catch up with the nosteam one...

[ichor]

dizzle wrote..

hmm i logged into steam and it told me to donwload and install some 350 mb file, so i clicked on install and nothin happend... what the fuck?

A jedi knight craves not steam... just be patient man.. or read the CSNation front page.. and notice you can download the cached version

[celesoft]

ok, my steam just freezes when i click on games now. it was working fine last night, wtf. you know what never did that? WON!

[CHAOS-TOM]

Delta2 wrote..

You won't be so calm when you have to pay 10.95 a month to play CS1.8.



-but hey what am I saying with fuckups like Steam I dont think CS well make it to 1.8.

ok listen the only games u ever pay for are games that only have a certtain number of servers and they all belong to the game . the thing abotu cs is that people make servers so u wouldnt have to worry about paying to play any time with cs unless teh decided to wipe all 25000 servers and make another 25000 just so u could pay

[@NU8|$]

Well i downloaded the Steam file with the cache files already with it, and i installed it, then i opened it, created a new account...but when it tried to login it sat there for a couple minutes and then had an error.

[ichor]

Delta2 wrote..

Valve must think that only 500 people play CS, with the amount of bandwith aviable for ANYTHING they release

I already explained that man.. you have to argue about new things now :P

[Delta2]

Hey if they could find away to piss off this many CS players (Steam) they can find away to make us pay to be pissed off as well.

[sushi]

Valve couldn't have prepared for this enough. They did all they good, and i'm suprized everythings going as smoothly as it is. At least most of us have the update files now. It's going to be slow for the next week or so, and it's not Valve's fault people. If any of you ran the beta of steam and 1.6, when hundreds of thousands weren't trying to get it (even though they say they hate it), you'll have been playing what steam will be when the servers calm down. Steam runs smoothly, and is a better interface than 1.5's HL engine. Just give all the people some time to download it, you'll see in a week or 2.

[ichor]

@NU8|$ wrote..

...but when it tried to login it sat there for a couple minutes and then had an error.

Wierd.. you probably got a corrupted file

[celesoft]

RECALL STEAM!!!

[@NU8|$]

well doesn't that jus suck!

[jo0ni3]

ok so far the steam is very sluggish... i hope this passes.. VERY SOON

[I]

thor2488 wrote..

It took 3 or so days of testing things, but CS 1.6 is working. This is what I did:



1) DLed 500k Steam installer.

2) DLed "Steam install with cache files" off of bittorrent. (Use another mirror if you like)

3) Installed Steam, moved cache files into the SteamApps folder.

4) Opened steam, created account.

5) Set Half-life and Counter-strike to update automatically.

6) Waited until the status thing in the properties of CS said Ready to play.

7) Opened CS, closing the Games window.

8) Left it for 30 minutes.

9) CS 1.6 was ready to play.

10) It didn't take nearly as long to open CS the second time.



If, at any time, it seems to be frozen, like during the updating process or when you click a button, wait a few minutes. It is probably going to finish what it was doing. Closing it before it's done can cause problems.



I hope this helps.

yea, kinda the same thing i did only once installed it works, but when i get outa it, it will not come back on just crashes, but if i erase everything and start agian i can play in about 10 mins, just sucks to have to reinstall every time i want to play