Steam servers are always busy (please read)

[Gavinvin]

i bought half life 2 and installed it and then steam downloaded the rest of the files, i completed half life 2 and decided i would like to try half life 2 deathmatch but when i tried playing it, it messed up so i uninstalled it, planning to use steam to redownload it, but now whenever i try to redownlaod it, it tell me the steam servers are to busy and i have to try in a few minutes, i have tried this so many times at different times in the day and it always tells me they are busy, please someone help! also is there any way to download HL2 deathmatch from anywhere else than steam? that would solve my problem i think.

 

[^Ben]

Your firewall or router is blocking steam from connection.

 

[DevgruSeal]

also is there any way to download HL2 deathmatch from anywhere else than steam? that would solve my problem i think.

No. And it wouldn't solve your problem. It would make it worse.

Very worse.

So much worse, we'd force you to tap dance while we video tape you...While having handfulls of cheetos thrown at you. Then we'd send the video to Gabe.

 

[Gavinvin]

its deffintly notmy firewall pretty sure it sint my router either, as i said when i installed HF2 it went onto steam to finish off the installion by downloading files for each of the games so steam has worked before

 

[Beerdude26]

Try deleting your Clientregistry.blob :
Exit Steam. Delete the clientregistry.blob in the main Steam folder and the platform.gcf file in the Steamapps folder. But make a backup of them first by copying them in another folder! Now restart Steam.

 

[MorganFreeman911]

No. And it wouldn't solve your problem. It would make it worse.

Very worse.

So much worse, we'd force you to tap dance while we video tape you...While having handfulls of cheetos thrown at you. Then we'd send the video to Gabe.

Hahahahaha.

 

[Gavinvin]

ok i tryed deleting them files, still says the servers are to busy, this is really frustrating i cant play most of the multiplayer mods because they are based on HL2 deathmatch