Got steam all upadated, when I try to download C-S; CRAAASH!

[Killa|3yte]

Anyone else experience this:

Steam finally got updated, but it just hangs when I try to download Counter Strike!?

 

[Typhon]

yeah. foobar.

 

[coax]

actually mine says 765 minutes 34 seconds left before i can play. so it's downloading, just very very very slowly.

 

[Feath]

Right click and select "Update this game automatically". Wait for Steam to stop updating then try to play.

 

[Typhon]

ok, so I did all that, and when I double click Half-Life or cs, the little
"Preparing to play half-life..."
window appears. And sits there. And uses 0% of my CPU. and has been there for a bout 10 minutes.

 

[3DDuL]

Dudes, i can only see ONE server!
The only filter i use is the game filter.... :-?
Does anyone know which ports to open?

 

[Killa|3yte]

same here

 

[Ridic]

steam is stupid...they are doing to much with it...its not jesus you know. Sure i have no problem with it replaceing won and such, but jklzxdhyfvnioajgh

 

[OCybrManO]

I did that and it said "Preparing to play Counter-Strike" for over an hour... I was watching TV for a while and when I came back it was still exactly as I left it.
Though, it was still responsive... it hadn't frozen.

 

[Feath]

I had some hanging problems with stuff.

Then I downloaded the installer again and reinstalled. After that it worked a lot better. I got the installer from the Halflife2.net forum.

(Also, the installer was different, the first one I used said "Beta").

You could try that?

EDIT: http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=6742

 

[Killa|3yte]

Originally posted by [Hunter]Ridic
steam is stupid...they are doing to much with it...its not jesus you know. Sure i have no problem with it replaceing won and such, but jklzxdhyfvnioajgh

LOL i'm quoting that

 

[Killa|3yte]

sigged

 

[d8cam]

Give them a few more days to figure stuff out.

 

[Dsty2001]

Guys, you can't expect a program downloaded by millions of people within a 12 hour period to work 100% perfect. Give it a few days before you start complaining

 

[OCybrManO]

What you should expect is that Valve would understand that they need a ton of bandwidth to handle the load and that they would get more servers up before they released the new Steam.

 

[zdub]

Im just trying to get steam to update so i can see ANY OF THE MENUS and its been sitting on my desktop saying steam - Updating for about half hour now. but its not moving an inch!

 

[Vino]

 

[OCybrManO]

I followed the advice of someone else on here and re-downloaded the installer.

Now it is worse than it was before.
Now Steam locks up before I can even start downloading a game.
Now Steam doesn't know that I have HL installed on my hard-drive (I told the first installation to leave it alone) and it won't copy anything over.

Well... since I have nothing to lose seeing as nothing has downloaded yet after install #2... I might as well clean out the registry and re-install one more time.

BTW: Great animated gif.

 

[Gunner]

That's hilarious vino lol : )

 

[OCybrManO]

Damn... well... it appears that everytime I reinstall it stops earlier.
Now I can't even update the Steam platform.