i dont hate steam!

orderoftheflame · 4 Jul 2011 at 20:40

adam_castell said:
should i verify all games before trying one of them?

Tbh, I'd only do it if you find you have problems with a specific game.

Your just going to spend an age watching progress bars fill to 100% and tell you every-thing's OK otherwise. If a game works fine when you run it, there's no need to "fix" it.

adam_castell · 4 Jul 2011 at 20:49

the steam update is just hanging now lol, this is a game in itself

adam_castell · 4 Jul 2011 at 22:16

sucsess!!!!!! all seems good now, going to get some gaming time in whilst i can before proper testings

thank you everyone for your help, i will report back and let you knwo how i get on

adam_castell · 4 Jul 2011 at 22:24

he spoke to soon!!!!!

i system restart has stopped it working??? next time i get it running the pc will stay on for eternity! lol

Devrij · 4 Jul 2011 at 22:30

I've just started having the same issue today! Started with a "you've logged into this pc for the first time" error, at which point I just entered the code from the email, but now it doesn't send the email so I'm stuck :/

HAz · 4 Jul 2011 at 22:31

I dont hate Steeeam 'OH NO!' I LOVE IT!!!

Fiocca · 4 Jul 2011 at 22:33

Sounds strange! Is it only steam you are having issues with? Nothing else at all?

adam_castell · 4 Jul 2011 at 22:37

Devrij said:
I've just started having the same issue today! Started with a "you've logged into this pc for the first time" error, at which point I just entered the code from the email, but now it doesn't send the email so I'm stuck :/

i think that is to do with the busy steam servers.

Fiocca said:
Sounds strange! Is it only steam you are having issues with? Nothing else at all?

only steam, everything else is ok

adam_castell · 4 Jul 2011 at 22:52

one common thing is my steamapps content, maybe a download is corrupted and buggering steam when it trys to load that content?

Mr Krugga · 4 Jul 2011 at 23:18

adam_castell said:
one common thing is my steamapps content, maybe a download is corrupted and buggering steam when it trys to load that content?

In which case you should verify the integrity of the files and see if it solves the problem.

garyfl · 5 Jul 2011 at 02:05

if you have peer guardian or anything similar, youl find it blocks connection to steam so it wont start up at all.

MeMeMeMe · 5 Jul 2011 at 02:30

adam_castell said:
one common thing is my steamapps content, maybe a download is corrupted and buggering steam when it trys to load that content?

Here's what I would do now.

1. Move the Steamapps subfolder somewhere safe.
2. go into control panel -> programs & featutres, and uninstall steam.
3. Reboot, then reinstall steam
4. Start it up - since your steamapps folder won't be there, you'll have to download games again. JUST download one - pick a small one.
5. test it, see if it works.
6. shut down steam (right click the icon, select Exit Steam)
7. Copy your steamapps folder back into your steam folder
8. now see if your games work.

Now, everything works okay after step 5, and stops working after step 8, we know something in your steamapps folder is messing things up. In which case, you can just delete it and start redownloading games again.

If it still doesn't work right after step 5, your problem isn't one that the usual tricks will solve. You'll need to contact steam support.

Tombo · 5 Jul 2011 at 02:53

Easy mode, delete everything except Steam.exe and Steamapps and run it again

adam_castell · 5 Jul 2011 at 09:35

Tombo said:
Easy mode, delete everything except Steam.exe and Steamapps and run it again

been suggested a few times in this thread already, done it a few times, no good

adam_castell · 5 Jul 2011 at 09:38

MeMeMeMe said:
Here's what I would do now.

1. Move the Steamapps subfolder somewhere safe.
2. go into control panel -> programs & featutres, and uninstall steam.
3. Reboot, then reinstall steam
4. Start it up - since your steamapps folder won't be there, you'll have to download games again. JUST download one - pick a small one.
5. test it, see if it works.
6. shut down steam (right click the icon, select Exit Steam)
7. Copy your steamapps folder back into your steam folder
8. now see if your games work.

Now, everything works okay after step 5, and stops working after step 8, we know something in your steamapps folder is messing things up. In which case, you can just delete it and start redownloading games again.

If it still doesn't work right after step 5, your problem isn't one that the usual tricks will solve. You'll need to contact steam support.

at this point i have wasted over 16 hours trying to get things sorted, i am just tempted to go in all guns blazing and unistall and delete everything steam and steamapps related to go for as clean and fresh install as possible.

what is the best way to unistall the games and make sure my registry is clean?

dreigns · 5 Jul 2011 at 09:59

That might not sort the problem as some settings and drivers will still be there and might be the problem you be better off doing a clean reinstall If going that way

adam_castell · 5 Jul 2011 at 10:04

dreigns said:
That might not sort the problem as some settings and drivers will still be there and might be the problem you be better off doing a clean reinstall If going that way

that will take days

Dickyb0b · 5 Jul 2011 at 10:04

delete the .blob files, ,always solves it

adam_castell · 5 Jul 2011 at 10:13

Dickyb0b said:
delete the .blob files, ,always solves it

done that several times, also has been mentioned several times in this thread

dreigns · 5 Jul 2011 at 10:18

adam_castell said:
that will take days

Takes me 4-5hours tops to reinstall everything just back up the stuff u need