Forum Overview :: Steam

No, Steam still sucks by mysterio 01/27/2007, 6:27pm PST at some point I decided to block outbound connections on my firewall except for "standard ports" (like 80, 443, etc). And I'd have to open up any additional ports as necessary. Well when I did that it started to take FOR-EVER to log in to my computer, and then when I finally got logged in, I couldn't start any processes.... click firefox, no. Try to start a command shell, no. Ctrl-Alt-Del to see what processes are running, no. And like a minute later everything would get going. A couple hours of debugging later, and I find out that removing steam from login startup fixes the problem. Huh, Steam times out trying to connect to Valve and in the meantime I cannot start any processes on my system? Huh? WTF is it doing? Then three months later I decided to try and play Half Life 2 again, and it popped up some bizarre error message about how it couldn't find some file. So I unblocked my firewall and started Steam up manually, thinking... ok, even though I already bought HL2, and even though I already got signed into Steam, and even though I'd already played HL2 like 500 times all the way through, that it was probably some dumb shit like it deactivates your software after so many months and needs to renew its... uh.. encryption keys... or whatever the fuck Steam does. Long story short: I can't play HL2 anymore, because Steam won't let me. But it will let me play HL2:E1.

Steam is good, I like Steam. NT by Jhoh Cable o_O 01/09/2007, 12:15pm PST     Steam sucked, it got much better. Go Steam. by Ice Cream Jonsey 01/09/2007, 1:18pm PST         By the way if you thought Steam sucked when it started! by Jhoh Cable o_O 01/15/2007, 10:13pm PST             No, Steam still sucks by mysterio 01/27/2007, 6:27pm PST                 Long story even shorter by Horrible Gelatinous Blob 01/28/2007, 12:48am PST                     Re: Long story even shorter by mysterio 01/28/2007, 3:01pm PST                         Complete Idiot's Guide to Debugging Steam (With a Debugger) NT by For Dummies (Like You) 01/28/2007, 3:37pm PST                         Reinstalling: Out of the question. NT by Straight to the debugger I went 01/28/2007, 9:51pm PST                         Re: Long story even shorter by Ice Cream Jonsey 01/29/2007, 11:33am PST                             Re: Long story even shorter by mysterio 02/05/2007, 8:02pm PST                                 This Mysterio speaks truth NT by Entropy Stew 02/06/2007, 3:19am PST                 You fucked up. Throw away your computer, get a new one. NT by Jhoh Cable o_O 01/28/2007, 11:56am PST                     Are you sure he should get a new one? No computer = no problems. NT by Second opinion 02/05/2007, 8:39pm PST