Steam Help Anyone? Created 17 years ago2007-02-25 15:30:43 UTC by maestr02

Ok, so last week I was working on a map on Hammer np. Saved my work, quit, and went to work. Came home, steam updated, and the window disapeared at about 30% through the update. Nothing.

I double click steam again. Nothing. I highlight the icon on my desktop and hit Enter about 50 times. Get a ton of windows saying "Steam is already running" and im going "WTF?". So I hit ctrl-alt-del and sure enough, steam is running, but i cant find a window for it. So I shut down the process and assume my pc is buggy, and reboot. Same thing.

Ok, virus definition update, complete scan, router ports, spyware, firewalls. No Dice. Switch it over from my ADSL to my Cable modem. No go. Set it up on my wife's pc. Works like a goddam dream

Ok, time to hit the valve tech help site. I click all their "click this to test this or that" and it will make Steam launch in processes window, but I cant see or do anything! I have been through all the posts, all the suggestions. I reformatted my hard drive yesterday. Yep, fresh clean install of windows xp, all fresh up to date drivers. Ive connected directly to my modem, no firewall, no router, no viruses, no spyware. I shut down every damn unnecessary windows process and startup procedure imagineable. Nothing.

Im gettin really really really bummed out here... been without for close to a week and the withdrawls are killing me in a bad way

I see a few others having this issue since the most recent update. Anyone found any solutions? For some reason I am unnable to post over on the vavle site, and they havent answered the question I ticketed either!

HAAAAAAAAAAALP!

C:program filesvalvesteam

Delete the ClientRegistry.blob and start Steam and see if that works. Usually fixes all Steam problems.

Already did that, no dice. Ive deleted everything off my computer. Reformatted the Hard Drive, fresh install of everythign including drivers.

I filled out a customer service ticket for help over at http://support.steampowered.com on the 17th. I also submitted info for registration to their forums at that time. I still cant post on the forums for help and they havent answered my ticket. THeir forums are filling up with posts from others having the same problem, but nobody from Valve will respond, I dont think they even have a clue as to whats going on.

Frankly, I hope valve really enjoys my $50, because its the last $ they will ever see from me.

HUGE thanks to everyone at TWHL who helped me get rolling last year with the hammer editor. Much thanks, but im going back to Unrealed. At least Epic's tech help responds and they have a phone # I can call with issues, like "the $50 product you sold me doesnt work at all."

peace.

Hmm I noticed Steam has been acting up...Yesterday Friends would not connect in-game and creating a server would bring up a Library Engine Error...

I checked the threat lists, I disabled and even tried running steam before I installed antivirus. There is a larger and larger # of people having this problem.

What bothers me is the lack of any communication from valve on the matter. A post on their forums saying they are looking at it, answer my ticket even, or anybodies posts over on their forums for that matter. Its pretty sad.

Funny how upset you can get when your game isnt available.

Oh that ticket thing is really useless...It takes 3-5 days for a reply and if you request another it puts you at the bottom of the list again.

Still I love how Steam manages things...Most of the time it is great...You're just unlucky to try it when a big error pops up for most of us.

Got it working... its weird.

The icons it placed in my start menu and desktop wont work. they just leave steam running in th background. (not sure still, mighthave something to do with the "-silent" taged to the end of the shortcut, particularly if steam is set up to startup, check msconfig, startup, can see -silent at the end of the steam line). Anyway, if I right click any of the icons and select "pin to start menu" they will work from there.

Im not sure why, I dont care how, im just glad its working again.

Insane.