Dead Men Walking

got it when i go to log in doesnt work "could not connect to steam network"

yeh i have reinstalled could it be steam is down ?


God bring back 1.5 i beg you :/

You just need to keep at it. I got the same message but after some tries it connects.

QuoteOriginally posted by Sadako@Sep 15 2003, 06:25 PM
You just need to keep at it. I got the same message but after some tries it connects.

Sadly CS1.5 worked first time. Ah, there's progress for ya :(

How long till 1.5 is out a week. Steams pissing me off it wont let me create an account it goes to create it and at the end fails due to steam sucking!!! Is there any chance some1 could make me an account and just email the details please i would be very gratful.

It keeps telling me that my password is wrong - I know that *I* haven't got it wrong....  :(

TL.

Yes I get the same problem as well.

I still havent got it to run after numerous reloads and reboots.

At the moment its just saying that its preparing to play....

What an awesome balls up is all I can say.

Well i cant use yahoo hotmail dont know what it is my cookies are on. So i dont know but i cant create a new account its rather annoying. Ive got another account but it says its expired. Can u regrister online on a site?

Anyone fancy joining me in IRC for a good ol' winge session?

Yes. Signing in now.

QuoteIt keeps telling me that my password is wrong - I know that *I* haven't got it wrong.... [/QUOTE*]

i had htis last night its when u cant connect as the server is too busy


starange thing is its not been a big problem today but from around 6pm (as people start to dload) its slowed down to a point where i cant use it

QuoteOriginally posted by TeaLeaf@Sep 15 2003, 07:46 PM
It keeps telling me that my password is wrong - I know that *I* haven't got it wrong....  :(

TL.

I also had this problem but it sorted itself by going to the lost password bit answer the question and when it says enter a new passy enter the same one.

Seemed to sort it for me. Had no problem since.

everytime click on steam..

"could not connect to steam network. either the steam network is currnenty not running or your internet connection is down play check your internet connection and try again"

:/


/me hits steam in the face with a big ugly bat

steam is most definately UP right now with more that 50% of it's capacity available. Are you having firewall issues maybe?

QuoteOriginally posted by smilodon@Sep 15 2003, 07:22 PM
steam is most definately UP right now with more that 50% of it's capacity available. Are you having firewall issues maybe?

steam is up alright, up its own TANGO  :lmfao:

Right then this is one for all you peeps that have successfully installed this pile o crap ......
I have got as far as steam saying its converting files for steams configuration and then the box that asks ya to delete 1.5 (recommended)...like shit I will !!

so after declining their kind offer it does nowt, nadder,zilch,sod all

each time I connect I start steam and it says no updates are being downloaded....and its not letting me do anything after selecting a game to connect to  :angry:  :angry:

I know the beta took ages to actually start up but this is complete toss !! :angry:  

how far have I got ???

Download the version with the steam cache and try with that. I had to completely delete the old version of steam 1st and have finally got it to work.

You can get that version of steam from blackadder.

QuoteOriginally posted by smilodon@Sep 15 2003, 07:22 PM
steam is most definately UP right now with more that 50% of it's capacity available. Are you having firewall issues maybe?

how do u mean ?

i disabled nortan and tryed still got the same message :/

any other ideas?

Up as in the Steam servers are online.

You can check the system Here (http://www.steampowered.com/status.html)

Bear in mind that a zillion other people are checking this page too so it's a bit slow to load sometimes. As far as I am aware from the Steam forums and CS Nation the Steam Network is up and running. It crashed at the end of last week but since most people have been downloading the 380+mb cache file the servers have all been back on line.

As more and more people upgrade to 1.6 and more and more servers do likewise, the load on Steam will drop a lot and signing in and authenticating will get quicker. So they say.

Dodgy Zone Alarm settings and the built in XP firewall cause a lot of problems. This will trip up signing up with Steam, logging on with Steam and connecting to a game

You may well have a Steam account but Steam can't get through your firewall to authenticate you so your client says that either Steam or your internet connection is down. You also have to allow Half-Life to have access through the firewall (That's the new half-life exe file in the steam folder and not the old one in the sierra folder).

Also installs that fell over part way through or appeared to hang and were terminated by the user will also leave Steam in a mess.

Finally only register ONCE. If you scrap Steam and start again with a new e-mail there is every chance that Steam will already have your HL CD-key allocated to the original e-mail you submitted. It will not stop you setting up a new account but will stop you logging on to a game as it thinks (rightly) that another e-mail has used your key and you are an imposter.

lol im still trying to get 1.6 from somewere anywere plz

QuotePosted: Sep 15 2003, 05:25 PM  

You just need to keep at it. I got the same message but after some tries it connects.

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ive managed to update to 1.6 got me script sorted,putme id on enemydown joined the sport league thingy but i cant seem to connect or sign into steam friends any ideas any 1  



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not ass many headbanging smilies

friends is down i reckon

Erm right, I've decided I'm not gonna bother! At least for several weeks. Quite frankly I can't be arsed. And besides there is the distraction of EA Rugby 2004 now! ;)

So I took the plunge and what a load of tosh - I can't even connect to the steam network (after many, many, many tries), I ain't sure if I've created an account or not as it would never confirm if I had been successful in trying to set one up, and I definitely have no background apps such as virus, trojan, or firewalls to bork it up !

Help (please   :( )

Help how?

QuoteOriginally posted by smilodon@Sep 16 2003, 07:49 PM
Help how?

:D  :D  :D  :D  :D (Hysteria) This morning I was Steaming away like a very steamy thing. Now, zilch! :lmfao:  :lmfao:  :lmfao:  :lmfao:  :lmfao:  :lmfao:  :lmfao:  :lmfao:  :lmfao:  
Oh look, nice young men in their clean white coats.  :dribble:  :dribble:  :dribble:  :dribble:

I've had probs to. First it wouldn't create an account, then when I tried again it said my e-mail address was already in use, so I tried a password reset and I DO have an account. It won't connect to anything though so it might as well not be there. Grrr

Exactly the same prob that I'm having Aga - What a bunch of feckin TANGO.  Do I have an account or not?  Can't work it out.  Says the email is registered then won't let me log in using same email.  Bugger.   :angry:

Guess I'll go back to the good old days of MOH and AVP2 online - sod this steam malarkey  :angry:

I still can't connect. The XP Pro firewall is turned off, ZA has all ports and all protocols open for Steam and still connects to bugger all.

It's a steaming pile off and I'm getting fed up fast.

QuoteOriginally posted by Aga@Sep 16 2003, 08:23 PM
I still can't connect. The XP Pro firewall is turned off, ZA has all ports and all protocols open for Steam and still connects to bugger all.

It's a steaming pile off and I'm getting fed up fast.

If it looks like it is doing nothing then be patient. Then be more patient. it can take forever but once it starts working proerly you will be OK

The first time you log on you have to wait a fair while (5 - 10 minutes) before you get authenticated. Bin the process early and you are in all sorts of problems. I think there's some additional updating going on plus your registration  request gets queued behind other new users. After that it seems to take about 60 seconds to load Steam and about 2 minutes to log in. CS games load in about 60 seconds (so faster than WON!!!).

I'm not sure what inbound connections Steam needs to make to your machine. Theoretically none as you are client with no services being offered. However as Steam is effectively a distributed network you may have to allow some incoming connections. Windows XP's firewall (such as it is) will block inbound connections, so maybe turning it off will help.

Clearly Steam works in principal as I'm having zero problems with it. So either there is something specific with your PC-set-up that's causing the problem, you were impatient with the LONG registration process and dumped it too soon or Steams servers have bugs in them that screw up random registrations. Mine worked yours didn't :(

If you know how to check firewall logs you might want to see what Zone Alarm is doing.

I think it is more a case of steam being under soooo much pressure that it has liquified totally and is danger of turning into a solid.

Wait, is the best advice and hope that Valve sort their sh*t out.

TL.

Their servers "seems" to be under no particular load right now, so it's bugs.

Of course you can get the bug fixes real quick through Steam  :)  err unless you can't connect to Steam due to bugs in which case you're err shagged  :(

I'm gonna love to see how Steam copes with the HL2 release. Pay you money, take your game home, load it up and watch Steam stop you playing it  :blink:

QuoteOriginally posted by smilodon@Sep 16 2003, 07:44 PM
Their servers "seems" to be under no particular load right now, so it's bugs.

Of course you can get the bug fixes real quick through Steam  :)  err unless you can't connect to Steam due to bugs in which case you're err shagged  :(

I'm gonna love to see how Steam copes with the HL2 release. Pay you money, take your game home, load it up and watch Steam stop you playing it  :blink:

if they do that, then I'm gonna get a plane to america or wherever the TANGO they are and burn their offices down  :rant:

QuoteOriginally posted by "Smilodon"
The first time you log on you have to wait a fair while (5 - 10 minutes) before you get authenticated. Bin the process early and you are in all sorts of problems. I think there's some additional updating going on plus your registration request gets queued behind other new users. After that it seems to take about 60 seconds to load Steam and about 2 minutes to log in. CS games load in about 60 seconds (so faster than WON!!!).

Sigh.... I would have had no problem with the reg process taking a while - unfortunately it didn't and binned me out after about a minute of trying to create my account with an error message.

So I figure I'll try and create the account again using same details - but then it tells me the email is already being used!  I'm loath to use another email as I have little confidence in the set-up.

So now when I try to connect I either get - "Steam isn't responsive" or "This account doesn't exist" when it clearly does.   :learn:

chimp its says that when steam is to busy to log on ...dont panic....when things calm down u should be ok......mine is the same when busy

so your saying leave it for few days / week and il be able to log on ?

QuoteOriginally posted by JonnyAppleSeed@Sep 16 2003, 11:10 PM
chimp its says that when steam is to busy to log on ...dont panic....when things calm down u should be ok......mine is the same when busy

Do you then envisage a time when it will not be busy? Of course! When 50% of the people now finding it busy  decide to end it all! Then the ones who toughed it out will be able to connect.

Logging on is NOT a server load issue IMHO. Steam Servers have been nowhere near  full capacity since Sunday night when the Steam cache files were released. (Unless Steams server page is a complete lie). I've also tested Steam by logging in and out about ten times tonight and joining about six servers - without issue

So it's a borked client on your PC a software conflict or a bug.

If Steam tells you that your e-mail is already in use then you did indeed register. And you do have an account.

What you also appear to have is a client that doesn't think it's registered and so hasn't updated properly and isn't sending valid user ID info. Therefore you should have this problem for ever unless you fix it.

If it's a norsed up registration try my post in THIS THREAD (http://forum.deadmen.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=3021)

If it's bugs then you're on your tod.

Likewise if you have an overly agressive firewall or an Anti-Virus called Norton...(spit  :angry: ) you may be in trouble. Turn off your firewall and buy a real Anti-Virus and test it again  ;)

Wohoo 1.6 steam is working finally.

I say it has busy network just down to the fact that it runs sweet for me in the early hours of the morninig....but as soon as it hots up i cant connect its slow and get various error messages with the different apps....network..friends ect :unsure:

but when i get home in the morning i can host/join games and find its also busy updating DOD TFC and all my other mods  :huh:

See that's odd cause I can get onto a game anytime. The Yanks are all at it right now yet I've just been playing on a server fine?

I don't actually have a clue whats going on  :lmfao: :unsure:

I haven't been able to connect to the Friends element for about 36 hours now.

Deleting the ClientRegister.blob fiel in the steam dir also seems to give it a kick start when you then reload steam.

TL.

HOT TIP HOT TIP


"i find that if yu start cs and click the friends icon on the main ct page it works everytime then"


and it works ....thankyou good night  <_< :byebye:  :byebye:

If you had problems while first registering then you may have problems connecting.

Look here http://www.steampowered.com/forums/showthr...?threadid=13852 (http://www.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=13852)

I've not tried yet using another mail account yet because I don't have another mail account yet. If this turns out to be correct then it's a bigger steaming pile than I thought.

The steaming pile worked after registering again with a different mail address. How rubbish is that? Having to make another mail address just to register with Steam because it messed up the first registration. I guess I'm lucky it only took 2 mail addresses, I could have been at it all day using hundreds of them.

I joined MH to test and the graphics on Aztec look better. I'll see you all tonight.

  <_<

I've been trying to register since Friday. I've tried various times of the day from 06:00am to 12pm.

Looking through previous posts I think I've every problem everyone has mentioned.

My Diary of woe:

Friday

I D/L the steam client from steam site installed got to the Email/name bit then it crashed. Then had the usual error message when tried to log back in 'Name already in use'. blah blah

Saturday

Trying to connect to steam, error message ' Either Steam server is down or check your internet connection.' I put this down to busy servers.

Sunday

Same message - Seems odd when many of the steam servers have spare capacity.

Uninstalled steam & D/L from Nvidia mirror. I'm desperate maybe corrupt syeam file.

Sunday night

Within 30secs get:
'Critical Error cannot connect to.'  Steam then crashes

Don't know rest of message its too long.

Rad has sent me the 370meg file.

Looks like I have a combination of a faulty registration for which I need to re reg with a different email add.
And I may have a bug/corruption problem...on the basis I can't even seem to connect to steam anymore at all.

So I wonder whether installing Rad's upgrade will work.

Steam steam steam ... thats all thats coming out of my ears and nouth at the moment.....this is kack. I downloaded the SteamInstall_cs.exe, removed the previous version, loaded up the _cs version , signed back on and sweet I thought I had it cracked.....................go to get on a server and it comes up "steam ticket shit TANGO MF'er expired" please enter password ..... so I .........steam steam steam - enter the fk'n password and then nothing happens, 2 mins later the shit message comes up again, so i close down the steam shyte and then try to reload it......and it says Steam is already running you can only have one instance of this stench running at a time. So I reboot and now can't even get the menu screen, i try to start it again it says........this pile of cows dung is already running ....... How the fk can I get back to the menu screen when theres no way to get to it!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am a bit slighted to the version deleting al ma 1.5 stuff which leaves me without the only game (solitude from the missus and little holwer) that I enjoy!!!!!!! Please help it really does make ya want to give it up............can we play this dung at the LAN?

Rest assured valve have their 'crack smoking' team of drunken monkeys working on the next bug ridden steaming pile of shit.

For those who have had no luck, this means you can have no luck with a whole new version.

For those who got it working, this means as if by magic it will update itself, crash and not work, thus enhancing your steam pleasure.

Just sit titght my little lambs

Are we having fun yet?  <_<

ooo yes a big thx to the man called -=[dMw]=-oldbloke thx 4 the info about the passy im gonna buy u a phat pint at the lan  :worship: :worship:  :worship:

( @ 3:15 today i was on mh, it was proper bo i tell thee :narnar: , :D well happy  :D im suprised i sorted all this 1.6 jaga out to b honised  :D  :narnar:  :D  :narnar:  :D  :narnar:  :D  :narnar:  :D  :narnar:  :D  

see u all tonight fingers crossed and all thet shi**

By Jove. I do believe he's got it.  :rolleyes:

Lucky B'Stard  :lol:  :dribble:

Anybody else getting the "cannot connect to steam network" error or am I today's lucky winner?

QuoteOriginally posted by BlueBall@Sep 17 2003, 03:32 PM
Anybody else getting the "cannot connect to steam network" error or am I today's lucky winner?

Aye for the past 2 days - but I'm putting it down to a software glitch

QuoteOriginally posted by SecretSquirrel+Sep 17 2003, 05:02 PM-->