Steam's Being Stoopid!

gazzab · 5 Dec 2011 at 16:45

I bought Brink last night and since then whenever I try installing it it tells me the servers are too busy and doesn't download, but the game in my library comes up with 'play' instead of 'download' when I hover over it. I've tried on multiple servers, deleted 'clientregistry.blob' and restarted me computer. Nothing's working.

My mate who lives down the road started his Brink download fine.

Any ideas?

Deception · 5 Dec 2011 at 16:48

As you've entered the key for it etc, can you just put your mates downloaded version on pen and then stick it in your steam apps folder?

gazzab · 5 Dec 2011 at 16:49

Not a bad idea, but we kinda wanted to play it tonight... I don't get why it's doing this

BigAndy87 · 5 Dec 2011 at 16:49

tried changing ur region download? *edit* never mind

tried Properties on games libary and 'verify integrity of game cache'

Martini1991 · 5 Dec 2011 at 16:51

gazzab said:
Not a bad idea, but we kinda wanted to play it tonight... I don't get why it's doing this

Wouldn't copying his be faster?

gazzab · 5 Dec 2011 at 17:01

Martini1991 said:
Wouldn't copying his be faster?

It would be, but he's waiting for his to download, I cba to get a cab or walk down there, and his pendrive is only 4gb anyway

Drukk · 5 Dec 2011 at 17:11

I had the same problem with F1 2011. Would n't let me download it saying servers to busy. After 3 days I raised a ticket with steam. They emailed back and said it would now work and it did so was something their end.

pingwing · 5 Dec 2011 at 17:30

I had this problem with Left 4 Dead 2 (osx though) only way I could get round it was making sure EVERY file to do with the download was off my system then reloaded steam and did the client registry blob thing to get it to see it needed to start from the beginning.

gazzab · 5 Dec 2011 at 18:11

pingwing said:
I had this problem with Left 4 Dead 2 (osx though) only way I could get round it was making sure EVERY file to do with the download was off my system then reloaded steam and did the client registry blob thing to get it to see it needed to start from the beginning.

Any idea where the game files download to? I looked around in the Steam folder and couldn't find anything

Drukk said:
I had the same problem with F1 2011. Would n't let me download it saying servers to busy. After 3 days I raised a ticket with steam. They emailed back and said it would now work and it did so was something their end.

Done. What a pita :rolleyes:

linktoinsanity · 5 Dec 2011 at 19:00

gazzab said:
Any idea where the game files download to? I looked around in the Steam folder and couldn't find anything

Make sure Steam is NOT running when you do this.

Default location is C:\Program Files (x86)\Valve\Steam\steamapps\common\

The folder should be in there. There will also be a smaller ncf file in C:\Program Files (x86)\Valve\Steam\steamapps. Delete that.

C:\Program Files (x86)\Valve\Steam is where you'll find the client registry blob file.

gazzab · 5 Dec 2011 at 19:09

Other than clientregistry.blob, there are no Brink files anywhere...

EDIT: I can download all my other games fine... the plot thickens