Steam = Argh!

[SecretSquirrel]

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.

[Rad_Man]

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?

[Stryker]

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

[OldBloke]

Are we having fun yet?  <_<

[FATAL]

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: , well happy   im suprised i sorted all this 1.6 jaga out to b honised    :narnar:    :narnar:    :narnar:    :narnar:    :narnar:    

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

[OldBloke]

By Jove. I do believe he's got it.  

[Rad_Man]

Lucky B'Stard  :lol:  :dribble:

[Anonymous]

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

[SecretSquirrel]

Originally 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

[Anonymous]

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

[smilodon]

Originally posted by smilodon@Sep 16 2003, 08:44 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:

Sorry to quote my own post, very bad form and all that, but I think I need to rectify a dodgy comment I made.

Steams News Site says the following

Login Failures
September 17, 2003, 1:17 pm · Chris Bokitch
Some people might be getting the following message when attempting to login to Steam:

"Login to steam failed. Either the specified account does not exist, or the password was wrong. Please check your email address and password and try again."

This is a bit misleading - your account exists and is fine. The authentication servers are under heavy load right now. This problem should be resolved shortly. Thanks for your patience!

So it may well not be a damaged registration problem but just an overloaded server.
Or it could be both  

Doesn't explain why I've never seen it on my PC ? Maybe God loves me?

[MAD_ness]

getting pretty racked off now ...........

managed to get to the screen where you can actually look for servers .....put the addy in for mh ...and sit back ready for connecting .............wait !..........wait a little longer ............still waiting ...........................AND STILL BLEEDIN WAITING!!!





PILE 'O' CRAP !!!!!!


MIGHT get a game before the lan !!!!!!!!

 :angry:  :angry:

[Zok]

http://www.steampowered.com/forums/misc.ph...ion=showsmilies

steam smilie list

note: not one for angry :rant:  :frusty:  :yell:  :angry:

[MAD_ness]

ok.......finally managed to connect to mh ....yay....no !!! lasted for about 3 mins before the map changed ...

aztec     ping    64

map changed to dust2

ping 1345

wtf is goin' on ?

tried re-connecting ...nada/zilch/TANGO all ......

so racked off now feck cs till this is all sorted !! :rant:  :rant:  :rant:  :thumbsdown:  :angry:  :angry:  :angry:  :angry: