Steam Error ?!?

mtjdavis · 28 Oct 2006 at 17:06

Well, i decided to put Half-Life 2 + Steam on, it installed fine.

But when i came to open steam it either comes up with

Could not connect to Steam network.
This could be due to a problem with your Internet connection, or with the Steam network.

or

Steam.exe (main exception): Unable to start Steam Engine: *SteamStartEngine(0x12e8c8) failed with error 200: Connection Closed by peer, WinSock Error 0 "No error"

I've tried disabling the firewall, i've manually opened all the ports and i've done both winsock-fix programs to no avail.

So please can anyone help?

Thanks in advance.

p.s: i think this is in the right forum, instead of software

mtjdavis · 28 Oct 2006 at 17:11

Yeah i did, i'll try it out

mtjdavis · 28 Oct 2006 at 17:13

Nope, didnt work.

Got the 'could not connect to steam network error'

mtjdavis · 28 Oct 2006 at 17:21

Oh, right thats a shame.

Also, what you said about needing a program to play. Because of the whole register on steam thing, it means you cant re-sell any steam game at all, even if brought from a store and not online.

Found this out when i tried to trade in HL2: Ep1 at gamestation, but i guess they had some logical reason for doing it.

mtjdavis · 28 Oct 2006 at 17:22

To Davey: i havent tried resetting the router yet, i'll give it a crack