Steam multiplayer problems Created 16 years ago2008-08-30 16:36:41 UTC by ATDestroy

Im having problems with my Steam multiplayer games (tf2 css) In the in-game server lists, I cant see any servers in my favorites, history, or internet tabs. If i hit refresh it comes back and says "cant find main server list"

In the servers window on the steam interface however, i can see the servers normally, but if i join from there, it starts the game, but when it tries to connect, it says "failed after 4 retries"

This started to happen randomly, i didn't change any settings, and i checked my firewall, it isn't blocking anything from steam. Any idea what could be going on? I'd like to get on those TWHL servers

Sometimes happens, try reopening the game or just wait some minutes, they'll come back

Its been happening the past 3 days, its just now that i've decided to ask TWHL.

Restarting steam, game, or computer, doesnt help

I tried reasearching the web, but i get no relevant results.

Im debating reinstalling steam, and all my games (i got em all on retail dvds) Steam already installs everything to my D drive, because i installed steam before hooking up my extra drive. So if i do reinstall at least that will be some good coming out of it

delete clientregistry.blob

Penguinboy, im not sure that helped. Error message:

"this game is currently unavailiable"

Does that for all games, media, and tools.

Well, i guess now i need to reinstall steam and all my games. So maybe it did help

meh

clientregistry.blob is the universal steam fix. did you restart steam after deleting it?

if you do reinstall steam, you can backup the "steamapps" folder to somewhere else on your hard drive, then reinstall. Then you can copy the folder back and you don't have to reinstall all games, and you don't lose your custom maps and stuff. this shouldn't affect the problems you're having, all that's in there are the game files.

"This game is currently unavailable" doesn't mean to reinstall. It happens all the time.

I usually just wait it out, but deleting the blob file usually works.

Ok, im having serious problems now.

Upon deleting the blob file and trying to restart steam, The "updating steam window" would come up and after about 3 minutes of inactivity, that message would disapear and a new message would say "could not connect to steam network.

So i reinstalled steam, and i now get the same messages.

Wut?

"This game is currently unavailable" doesn't mean to reinstall. It happens all the time.

I usually just wait it out, but deleting the blob file usually works.

I used to get that all the time. It would actually tell me sometimes too that the game was preinstalled. Restarting steam was my easy fix.

Luke misunderstood i think, i got that Game currently unavailable message after deleting the blob. But then i exited steam (penguinboy's recomendation) and tried starting back up. I get the steam updating window, that eventually turns to a "cant connect to steam network" message. Reinstalling didnt change the result at all.

What? No.

You said you needed to reinstall because Steam said they were unavailable. That wasn't true, so I was just reassuring you that's normal.

Well, whats not normal now is that steam cant connect. I think im going to see if steam has support or something