Re: Steam related discussions
Looks really odd and weird. Not interested.
Looks really odd and weird. Not interested.
baccilus
Cyborg Agent
Now you can trade games on steam
PC Gamer: Steam trading beta will let you swap TF2 items for spare Steam games | PC Gamer
FAQ: *support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=6748-ETSG-5417
TF2 blog: Team Fortress 2
Its in beta now. Portal 2 is also coming soon. We will also be able to trade items from other 3rd party devs that participate.
The coolest thing is that you can trade extra games (aka gifts) for other gifts, or for TF2 items atm.
EDIT:No one interested in this cool new feature?
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PC Gamer: Steam trading beta will let you swap TF2 items for spare Steam games | PC Gamer
FAQ: *support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=6748-ETSG-5417
TF2 blog: Team Fortress 2
Its in beta now. Portal 2 is also coming soon. We will also be able to trade items from other 3rd party devs that participate.
The coolest thing is that you can trade extra games (aka gifts) for other gifts, or for TF2 items atm.
EDIT:No one interested in this cool new feature?
Re: Battlefield 3 discussion!
Well, I have my 1st Steam experience in the HL2 days itself and apparently it was downloading a lots of DRM encrypted stuffs (from what I had got by the onscreen dialogs etc., don't know whether I was right or wrong) from the net despite having the disk. And it was a terrifying experience at dial-up!
And here's my latest experience with Steam: Just installed Steam last week, and on my 2Mbps BB (not unlimited), it took some 15-20 minutes to completely install, and of this, login took more than 5 minutes. And BB speed was top-notch all those time. I really don't know what that 1.5mb installer really does in the background. Even today there was login problems, first it shows not responding, then say cannot connect to my account, on restart it started updating (from my experience it updates more frequently than a firefox nightly build), again task manager shows not responding, then finally the home screen comes, taking a "sweet" 6 and a half minutes in total. I faced similar situation last year and the year before that. And in both cases I promptly uninstall it within a week.
Any solution? Or am I doing anything wrong?
PS: I have nothing against Steam, but because of all these problems, I can't really purchase any Steam specific games. My bad!
Well, I have my 1st Steam experience in the HL2 days itself and apparently it was downloading a lots of DRM encrypted stuffs (from what I had got by the onscreen dialogs etc., don't know whether I was right or wrong) from the net despite having the disk. And it was a terrifying experience at dial-up!
And here's my latest experience with Steam: Just installed Steam last week, and on my 2Mbps BB (not unlimited), it took some 15-20 minutes to completely install, and of this, login took more than 5 minutes. And BB speed was top-notch all those time. I really don't know what that 1.5mb installer really does in the background. Even today there was login problems, first it shows not responding, then say cannot connect to my account, on restart it started updating (from my experience it updates more frequently than a firefox nightly build), again task manager shows not responding, then finally the home screen comes, taking a "sweet" 6 and a half minutes in total. I faced similar situation last year and the year before that. And in both cases I promptly uninstall it within a week.
Any solution? Or am I doing anything wrong?
PS: I have nothing against Steam, but because of all these problems, I can't really purchase any Steam specific games. My bad!
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Re: Battlefield 3 discussion!
Its just bad luck i guess or some kind of problems with your firewall settings. For me, most of the time steam loads in a jiffy. And the security it provides for you a/c is remarkable.
Its just bad luck i guess or some kind of problems with your firewall settings. For me, most of the time steam loads in a jiffy. And the security it provides for you a/c is remarkable.
Re: Steam related discussions
I'm more interested in increasing the no. of games in my a/c.
I'm more interested in increasing the no. of games in my a/c.
OP
Re: Battlefield 3 discussion!
Try defragging steam directories.Well, I have my 1st Steam experience in the HL2 days itself and apparently it was downloading a lots of DRM encrypted stuffs (from what I had got by the onscreen dialogs etc., don't know whether I was right or wrong) from the net despite having the disk. And it was a terrifying experience at dial-up!
And here's my latest experience with Steam: Just installed Steam last week, and on my 2Mbps BB (not unlimited), it took some 15-20 minutes to completely install, and of this, login took more than 5 minutes. And BB speed was top-notch all those time. I really don't know what that 1.5mb installer really does in the background. Even today there was login problems, first it shows not responding, then say cannot connect to my account, on restart it started updating (from my experience it updates more frequently than a firefox nightly build), again task manager shows not responding, then finally the home screen comes, taking a "sweet" 6 and a half minutes in total. I faced similar situation last year and the year before that. And in both cases I promptly uninstall it within a week.
Any solution? Or am I doing anything wrong?
PS: I have nothing against Steam, but because of all these problems, I can't really purchase any Steam specific games. My bad!
OP
Re: Steam related discussions
Do a fresh install and clear all your temporary files of your PC. And after you log-into steam the next time, change the download region. This might solve the issue.
I see many user having the same problem with no real solution over at the steam forums.
Steam takes an extremely long time to login - Steam Users' Forums
EDIT: I see some users had this problem fixed by adding steam and steam's folder in the exceptions list of their PC security program. And some solved it by deleting the clientregistry.blob file from steam's directory.(but don't forget to take backup of this file).
Do a fresh install and clear all your temporary files of your PC. And after you log-into steam the next time, change the download region. This might solve the issue.
I see many user having the same problem with no real solution over at the steam forums.
Steam takes an extremely long time to login - Steam Users' Forums
EDIT: I see some users had this problem fixed by adding steam and steam's folder in the exceptions list of their PC security program. And some solved it by deleting the clientregistry.blob file from steam's directory.(but don't forget to take backup of this file).
Liverpool_fan
Sami Hyypiä, LFC legend
Re: Steam related discussions
Yes. Of course.
Yes. Of course.