Steaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam

[the Carpenter]

I've not had any problems with it, since I DLed it.
Seems to lag more than WON did though.
I've never updated anything either.
I think I have 2.0 version ?
It works just fine, either way.

[sPlOrYgOn]

lol never updated...
thats probably why you've never had any problems...
steam gets worse each update

[Pierre-Marie Baty]

YAY!
tried again today after 1 night sleep and it worked

keep trying soulfather, that'll work someday

[stefanhendriks]

i had this problem:

- updated steam

and the 'error' they told they have fixed , appeared for the first time (and kept on repeating) on my screen. Something about the "Game is not available". (CS), I tried. any other mod i had installed, no luck.

Anyhow, what made it work:
- i looked to half-life engine.cfg; removed it.
- i replaced that file with a version of a friend of mine and it worked (since he got it running).

So if anybody has trouble with this, grab a working "half-life engine.cfg" file at (5MB zipped!) http://realbot.bots-united.com/files...e%20engine.zip

To install:
unpack it into steam/steamapps.

[MusicMan]

don't you mean a .gcf?

[Pierre-Marie Baty]

Yea, I think thats what he meant

[SoUlFaThEr]

whoa........was just at the steampowered forums

ok
the FIX
end the steam process.....

erase all of the .gcf files in \steamapps

then login.....

it will update the platform FILES and will log you in.


[edit] i did that shit....had to reinstall cs ....from my 1.5 and now for the first time i get that game not available error that all others that i never got. i dont know how to correct that one....and i only have platform, cs and ricochet.gcf files in my apps folder....
but when i got in its still unavailable for me and wont update cs or ricochet
[/edit]

[edit2]
ok....this time i opened steam and connected(login)
then i right clicked cstrike game.....went to properties and changed the auto update to no auto update....
i exited with logout.....got back in , logged in fine.......and then changed it back to auto update.....
i let it sit there.and watched my steamapps folder for a bit....and suddenly half-life.gcf appeared.....then i right clicked my cs game icon again and it had updated 1%. so i got out of steam again without the logout.......
when i got back in i double clicked the cstrike game icon and that shit actually began downloading the updates!....and its still downloading so lets see.....
[/edit2]

[sfx1999]

Try this instead:

1) Exit steam.
2) In the main steam folder delete everything but unwise.exe, steam.exe, and writeminidump. DO NOT DELETE THE FOLDERS!
3) Go into bin and delete everything in it.
4) Run steam.exe. Wait for it to update and see if it works.

BTW, this is the way I use to fix the "Steam has caused an invalid page fault in steam.dll" error and it always works for that. I have not tried it with anything else.

[Thirdeye]

ok i deleted my clientregistry.blob ( which i hope you backed up ) now dont get me wrong ive tried this serveral times up intill last night after i read PMB post it work fine... just took forever to update...

http://home.stx.rr.com/thirdeye/steam=gay.jpg

[>BKA< T Wrecks]

It's really odd. Today I tried, and without deleting, tweaking, fixing or changing anything, it went back to normal. I can play fine now, and I didn't do anything but wait.