I Hate Steam

[Brett]

Steam is terrible. Mine never works and right now i cant even log in it says: Failed to connect to any gerneraldirectory server. I redownloaded it and it still wont work. Why couldnt they just keep it the way it was.

 

[BWMASTER]

Its still beta

 

[Stigmata]

do you have a firewall enabled? that might be the problem, it's the only thing I can think of at the moment that might do that...

 

[bonanzaguy]

it's cause you hate steam, so steam hates you back

 

[Brett]

No i dont have a firewall. It did work fine till all these updates for the new movies. It started the first update and got stuck on 61% so i restarted and then when it started up it upgraded but there was no media section and none of the servers worked so i uninstalled and tried again and now it gives me that error message. I give up i guess it hates me too.

 

[SD1]

also hate it.

Its slow and bloated, uses too much system resource, slows down boot times, bah, pile a shit!

SD

 

[Brett]

Alright, I finally got it to work atleast i think. Now i have got servers showing up so im happy.I have one question though i dont have anything about media anywhere is that suppose to be right? i know they havnt released the movies but i saw a pic of a person that had a media section on inthe games tab and mine doesnt. To all of you who are having problems just reinstall till it works, thats what works for me.

 

[jhero]

Hmm, that pic is just people at work hacking files...

 

[flox]

I love steam. It works great. At least for me

 

[FatCombine]

Ok stupid question: where is the media section?

 

[Wesisapie]

there is no media section yet

 

[nico851]

you'll see media section when media is out

 

[rogi]

steam sux... period
why? because it takes up resources, bandwidth and its full of pointless stuff (who needs _another_ IM/chat program). On top of that i want to know what it installs, where and how. Its evil imo. Hopefully valve comes with an alternative for steam.

 

[Yatta]

I think Steam is great actually, it doesn't give me too many problems except when I try to play CS. It also has problems updating itself...

 

[LPC]

no worries guys, by the time half-life 2 is released steam will be a great program.

 

[[NST]Cifu]

Instead, even the i have only an dial-up connection, and the steam i'snt too usable without broadband conn...

 

[ritcH]

The only problem I have with steam is the cs map loading times apart from that I don't notice anything i.e. loading times or have any problems I have an Athlon XP2200 with 512MB RAM so not exactly a great system either.

ritcH

 

[82ross]

CS isnt so hot at loading maps on its own. It seems that every version takes longer and longer to load a map. Steam adds a few seconds on itself probably a few more validation routines than normal.

I miss the good old beta days sniff sniff.

 

[FatCombine]

I feel sorry for those people whose Steam don't run so well... I've never had a problem/error with it. Is it just other peoples' computers and not Steam's problem?