Steam

Biohazard · 15 Oct 2006 at 22:13

I'm about to put my head through the TFT.

Installed XP, then SP2. Install steam, HL2 and CSS from DVD.

Log into steam account, wants to update before it'll let me play. Ok I say;

Initially says 8 hours to download, rapidly within couple of minutes it works its way down to 7 minutes.

Those '7' minutes so far have taken from 9:21pm to time of this post. Ready to play in approximately...... hmm well how about straight away as I've installed off the friggin DVD!

Taskman reports 99% cpu useage.

WHAT THE HELL IS STEAM DOING?

Grrrrr :mad:

HicRic · 15 Oct 2006 at 22:23

Biohazard said:
Ready to play in approximately...... hmm well how about straight away as I've installed off the friggin DVD!

I believe there have been numerous patches, updates and new levels added since the DVD would have been made, it's probably downloading all of that. If it looks like it's stuck and going crazy then close it down, restart and open it up again. Steam can automatically stop/resume downloads so it'll be fine.

DaveyD · 15 Oct 2006 at 22:28

Is it actually downloading? What % is it at?

Close Steam, then open it up again. Let it try downloading CS:S / HL2 updates on its own.

Biohazard · 15 Oct 2006 at 22:35

Done that and its started from scratch again.

Its only downloading updates for steam, as that is what I have launched from the game menu. Before it will play says it needs to update.

Yes its downloading, it the only thing running on the pc just now.. its not going hell for leather but the activity lights are blinkering.

Only re-formatted as steam kept crapping out on Vista. Now its taking all year to update on XP :mad:

Biohazard · 15 Oct 2006 at 22:37

DaveyD said:
What % is it at?

Doesn't show percentage

DaveyD · 15 Oct 2006 at 22:55

Biohazard said:
Doesn't show percentage

Close Steam, goto www.steampowered.com and download Steam from there, run the installer and install it over the top of the installed folder. Make sure your firewall is letting Steam thrugh fully also if that doesn't solve the issue.

Biohazard · 16 Oct 2006 at 08:53

yes I have let it access the net through the firewall.

Its working now at 11:40odd pm, however I can no longer access the console?

normally I hit ` to pull it up but no longer works? :confused:

Zefan · 16 Oct 2006 at 09:13

You need to turn on the developer console option, not sure where it is exactly.

Rincewind · 16 Oct 2006 at 09:24

go to options: keyboard settings, advanced and turn on the console

ttaM · 16 Oct 2006 at 09:25

Go to options -> key bindings(?) -> advanced keyboard options or advanced options and there will be a tick box in there to turn on developer console.

EDIT: Beaten to it