Problems w/ Latest Steam Update Created 17 years ago2006-05-13 13:27:41 UTC by TawnosPrime

Has anyone else noticed any problems w/ Steam lately?

The past couple of days, my games keep randomly going to the preloaded status. A restart of steam fixes this, but it can be annoying when u go to play a game or mod and it won't load b/c it's "preloaded". And they aren't even brand new titles, either. All I've got installed is HL 1.6, CSS, HL2DM and HL2. Mods are Earth's Special Forces and Dystopia.

Yeah, that's been happening to me. Steam said a couple of my games are at 0% or preloaded. The percentage games start immediately (after going to 99% or "regular" status).

However, similar to your experience, "Preloaded" doesn't start for me, either, until I restart steam.

When I minimize a source game in the middle the game goes to the pre-load status. It doesnt effect anything though.

I've discovered just recently another fun little glitch in steam. It seems that on occasion, my games will stop loading altogether untill I restart my account. It'll say the it's starting in it's lil window, then the screen goes black (as it does just b4 the intro and loading screens), but then it returns me to my desktop.

Now, when I first started using steam about 6 months ago, I was impressed at the service, and at valves games in general. However, as of l8, I've been noticing a decline in this. What w/ the glitches in this l8est update, an unanswered e-mail inquiry to customer service, and a blatant lack of phone service for steam to facilitate quick and easy fixes, valve doesn't seem to be out for the general consumer, just the modders that help drive sales by work of mouth, or in CS's/Garry's Mod's case, a new money makin' venture.

Yeah I got into a rant, but shit like this really pisses me off!

steam = sucks
and the friends list finally works... but its a beta >.<

Give it a week or so and I bet it'll be running stable. Haven't had any problems m'self, apart from all the icons going missing from 3rd Party Mods.

I don't know if this is a bug or not, but my steam window went really big, now I can't see any of the lower mods, like the ones starting with z for example and pre-loaded games.

EDIT: Stupid me, I always fix after I post.