OMFGWTFFTW STEAM ARGHHHHH

KaneStatton · 22 Jun 2009 at 23:02

*CALM* *CALM*

Right Total war had been downloading for like 3 days on my 512kb and now its gone, nada, nothing, vanished.

Steam crashed so I restarted the comp and its gone and if I go to the store it wants me to buy it again for £29.99

What do I do ?

SkeeterUK · 22 Jun 2009 at 23:03

Logged in on the right account?

megatron · 22 Jun 2009 at 23:03

Ask on steam forums.

KaneStatton · 22 Jun 2009 at 23:06

I'm going to the forums right away and yes I'm on the right account.
If I go onto program files Empire is there but of course only of what I downloaded so I cant play it.

[timko] · 22 Jun 2009 at 23:07

KaneStatton said:
if I go to the store it wants me to buy it again for £29.99

The store won't tell you that you've already bought something. Goto your "My Games" tab instead and you'll see it in the "Not installed" section, or whatever it's called.

KaneStatton · 22 Jun 2009 at 23:11

[timko];14339156 said:
The store won't tell you that you've already bought something. Goto your "My Games" tab instead and you'll see it in the "Not installed" section, or whatever it's called.

I've looked there and nothing is there apart from other games I havent installed.

KaneStatton · 22 Jun 2009 at 23:15

Fixed it mother ****ers,
All I had to do was rename the steamblob thing.

If I have to download it all again the computer will be going out the window however.

[timko] · 22 Jun 2009 at 23:26

KaneStatton said:
If I have to download it all again the computer will be going out the window however.

I thought the window thing was reserved for when/if you find the game to be pants?

Strife212 · 22 Jun 2009 at 23:28

Totally unrelated post, but who is that in your sig timko?

KaneStatton · 22 Jun 2009 at 23:28

[timko];14339290 said:
I thought the window thing was reserved for when/if you find the game to be pants?

The window is the solution to many problems

It said 0% btw but it was just 0% of what is remaining

.

KaneStatton · 24 Jun 2009 at 09:34

Another problemo

When I pause a download on Steam I get like 500 ping on games grahhh and my TF2 patch won't download it just says download starting.

megatron · 27 Jun 2009 at 10:57

Throw yourself out the window.

jmc007 · 27 Jun 2009 at 13:17

Strife212 said:
Totally unrelated post, but who is that in your sig timko?

Is she chewing a caterpillar?

Chaapa'ai · 27 Jun 2009 at 13:56

I am sure Steam will give you more time to dl.
Side note: Seriously.?.. 512k internet and you are downloading dvd sized files?

valdai · 28 Jun 2009 at 01:06

To be honest I'm at <200kb/sec on a line capable of 700 at the moment anyway so it doesn't matter too much. Also downloading Empire

Chaapa'ai · 28 Jun 2009 at 11:32

valdai said:
To be honest I'm at <200kb/sec on a line capable of 700 at the moment anyway so it doesn't matter too much. Also downloading Empire

I use firefox with the DownloadThemAll! addon that speeds up single file downloads unless of course Steam blocks it.

snowdog · 28 Jun 2009 at 11:50

Chaapa'ai said:
Side note: Seriously.?.. 512k internet and you are living in 2009 ?

Fixed

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Can't you get more or are you being a cheapskate ? 512k is something I started with, 7 years ago (if not more, I can't exactly recall in what class I got it but it was in primary school)...

You knew the game was this large though, why buy it if downloading it from steam is such a pain.

KaneStatton · 28 Jun 2009 at 12:38

snowdog said:
Fixed .

Can't you get more or are you being a cheapskate ? 512k is something I started with, 7 years ago (if not more, I can't exactly recall in what class I got it but it was in primary school)...

You knew the game was this large though, why buy it if downloading it from steam is such a pain.

I cant possibly get more no, and it actually costs quite a lot £22 a month or something. I have told my parents to get onto orange and get the price lowered but they don't seem to care as its fast enough for them. But because we live something like 5km from the connection point we can't physically get any faster anyway, without moving away.

512K is like the minimum broadband I think

so annoying.

snowdog · 28 Jun 2009 at 12:55

Ouch that sucks, knowing me I'd actually move house for that reason

. 512k would be terrible for me these days. I found using 3.6mbps 3g+ bad enough for a month :eek:

.

Raumarik · 28 Jun 2009 at 12:55

Kane - I was told something similar by Tiscali - that my low download/upload were down to distance from the exchange, but technology has been improved at most exchanges since so it could be false. My understanding is that once your connection is setup initially it takes 10 days to set the rate it'll be at, after that it isn't recalculated or updated at all until you move ISP.

When I moved from Tiscali to IDNET, it was redone, Tiscali swore blind they couldn't give me more than 1MB down, the instant I went to IDNET I was upgraded to 6MB down. I've recently upgraded to IDNETs ADSL2+ package (same monthly as normal ADSL but only available on certain exchanges that BT have upgraded) and now I'm sitting on 11MB download.

It's worth considering switching to another ISP to see if you have luck like mine!