Steam: Slow but rock solid

[Angrybrit]

Last night: Installed Steam. Downloaded the the game packs from the web. Then proceeded to install Counter-strike. Ran Counter-strike to add my CD-key. Then ran Steam, found my installation, upgraded to the lastest version and voilà. It's really slow though.

Other than that NO problem.:cheers:

 

[PriNcE oF SpAcE]

I hope it works as well for me when I get around to download it...

 

[forn1x]

wow you must be the only one, no one else can get it to work right.

 

[Gunner]

Well that worked once for me, but as of today (this morning actually) things went bollocks, doggy style... nothing works, several attempts reinstalling, nothing... I cleaned my registry and defrag each time but no luck so far. It worked fine yesterday!... fudge.

 

[Angrybrit]

A thought. Are you people still using Windows 95/98/ME?

I've had to install a few, all were XP installations and no problems to report at all.

 

[coax]

It's always slow. But you just wait. In a day or so you'll find that it hangs/stops/crashes yor whole machine for no particular reason.
It's absolute rubbish is what it is.

 

[Dr. Freeman]

Originally posted by )[eVo]( Para
Well that worked once for me, but as of today (this morning actually) things went bollocks, doggy style... nothing works, several attempts reinstalling, nothing... I cleaned my registry and defrag each time but no luck so far. It worked fine yesterday!... fudge.

this is just a guess but i think ur Steam was fine.. its just that there isn't alot of servers available.. last time i checked Steam status, 6 of them servers were down, and i checked again right now and 4 are down now.. so its quite possible that because of the server u were connected to, went down or something.. so just means u gonna have to be extra patient with Steam.


btw, im using Win98, and yes i have had tons of problems.. u name it, i probably had it.. but i think the reason why Steam is slow for me is because this comp has 128 SD ram.. im sure Steam is a ram/resource hog.. so having 512 ram of the latest type might help..

and yes, having Win2k or WinXP editions probably help too..

oh well.