Steam Status

[CSN NewsBot]

As you probably all have noticed, since the update this morning, Steam has been running pretty sluggish all day which has caused a lot of unresponsiveness and not allowing people to log in. Erik Johnson, Valve's recent new posting king, has posted on www.SteamPowered.com that by tomorrow morning, Steam should be running much better.



The reason for the sluggishness was because the content servers were overloaded; most of you knew this. "Until the Steam content servers are able to catch up with demand, some users will continue to experience slowness or unresponsiveness from the Steam client", says Erik Johnson. You can read his full post below.[break="Erik J's post"]

Since this morning's update was released, the Steam network has been overloaded, causing many Steam users to be unable to login.



Until the Steam content servers are able to catch up with demand, some users will continue to experience slowness or unresponsiveness from the Steam client. We've been making some changes to the content servers today to accelerate this recovery, and we expect conditions to improve quite a bit by tomorrow morning.



Thanks, again, for your patience after this update.

[JRules]

Edited by [user="97433"] @ [time="1078378198"]

It was a lil slow, I downloaded as soon as it was released but just downloaded on other comp about 10 min ago and its back to normal speed now.

I've also been able to verify my email address, and do the hl2 survey.

[.b0w. Bushwacker]

wasnt too bad for me after a restart of my computer

[iami]

Here's a fix for a related (?) error:



When I filled out the HL2 survey, I noticed that Steam picked up my Operating System as 98. I'm using Win XP (home). Not sure how this happened, because it accurately identified my NTFS file system, but that's besides the point. I had a good laugh at Steam's expense, and continued with the install. Everything installed smoothly; no problems even with the notorious Steam Content Servers.



When I tried to run cstrike (or DoD or any other mod) after the install, however, I received the message:

Steam - Error: Failed not run game.[sic]

Then a sentence or two about having two steam versions installed (not true).



After much hair-pulling and steam-reinstalling, I found this post which gives a fix for the problem (or close to it). Simply:

» Right click on the steam.exe (located at: 'C:\Program Files\Steam\Steam.exe')

» Select properties

» Click on the "Compatibility" tab

» Uncheck "Run this program in compatibility mode."

That should do the trick, hope this helps someone keep their hair.

[Zips]

Updated the client just fine.



Had a bit of a delay updating the individual games, but afterwords I was able to play them fine for a while until I quit.



Overall, good update. People just have to learn to be patient.

[bullet_head]

iami:

Thank you for that post, that may help quite a few regulars. Very much appreciated :)

[stirallyracer]

Steam is very sluggish on my computer now, downloading the security files used to take only 6-7 seconds. Now, it takes 20 seconds!

[Automatic Man]

what is all this verifying via e-mail? what does it mean? they send an email to make sure people aren't bsing emails on your email name? i dont get it...



havent had a chance to test out the new update yet, hope all goes well, i wish valve would have included the official CS bot cuz it "r0xorz j0o b0xorZ" (but i know its the CZ bot now )



neways, keep up the good work, valve. way to listen to the community's feedback :)



www.reserved16.com = kthxbye

[a_russak]

Cancel that thought, no clue what it's for...oh well, my e-mail is legit.

[Helkite]

Yeah, I think the email verification is basically to make sure your email address is legit.



Somehow the system that's supposed to send these things out hasn't sent one to me yet though.... man, everything is overloaded.

[-:Nighthawk:-]

Yeah, the survey deal has some issues, for sure. For me, it just decided that I run at 1152x864 instead of at 1280x960, and claimed I use D3D mode instead of OpenGL. Ah well, doesn't really matter too much, I suppose.

[MikeJ]

It said i have 3,000 mega hurts

[azz0r]

I guess were not ready for games over it then

[Venom666]

i haven't received the e-mail though i saw it sending it to me twice...

weird

[RNR]

Your not alone Number 13. No email either.