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Game Forum / Action Games / Half Life / February 2005Help: Just installed HL2, now "Cannot connect to steam"
From the little I've read so far, it seems a lot of people have had this issue. WTF? I installed the game, went to run it, and RIGHT AWAY I get "Cannot connect to Steam Network". No delay at all. How am I supposed to troubleshoot this? I already bypassed my Router and I'm going straight into my ISP (Ok, so I still have a wireless connection to my router, but the router is in hub mode, so there's no NAT translation going on). Could it be my wireless link? Why would this be the only game to have issues with my wireless link? Please help. Thanks in advance! David Oops -- sorry about the multiple post. OE is acting funky on me. David > From the little I've read so far, it seems a lot of people have had this > issue. WTF? I installed the game, went to run it, and RIGHT AWAY I get [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > David Maybe the two problems are related. You might have a flakey internet connection. DaveL > Oops -- sorry about the multiple post. OE is acting funky on me. > [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] >> >> David http://steampowered.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/steampowered.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.ph p?p_faqid=11&p_created=1092152203&p_sid=CmJmL6zh&p_lva=12&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPTEmcF9zb 3J0X2J5PSZwX2dyaWRzb3J0PSZwX3Jvd19jbnQ9MjYwJnBfcHJvZHM9MCZwX2NhdHM9MCZwX3B2PSZwX 2N2PSZwX3NlYXJjaF90eXBlPWFuc3dlcnMuc2VhcmNoX25sJnBfcGFnZT0xJnBfc2VhcmNoX3RleHQ9Q 2Fubm90IGNvbm5lY3QgdG8gU3RlYW0gTmV0d29yaw**&p_li=&p_topview=1 DaveL > Maybe the two problems are related. You might have a flakey internet > connection. [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] >>> >>> David Yeah -- I tried all that, and still got nothing. :-( Luckily, late last night, I finally figure out what was wrong (see other post). Thanks for your help, though. :-) David > http://steampowered.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/steampowered.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.ph p?p_faqid=11&p_created=1092152203&p_sid=CmJmL6zh&p_lva=12&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPTEmcF9zb 3J0X2J5PSZwX2dyaWRzb3J0PSZwX3Jvd19jbnQ9MjYwJnBfcHJvZHM9MCZwX2NhdHM9MCZwX3B2PSZwX 2N2PSZwX3NlYXJjaF90eXBlPWFuc3dlcnMuc2VhcmNoX25sJnBfcGFnZT0xJnBfc2VhcmNoX3RleHQ9Q 2Fubm90IGNvbm5lY3QgdG8gU3RlYW0gTmV0d29yaw**&p_li=&p_topview=1 > [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] >>>> >>>> David > Maybe the two problems are related. You might have a flakey internet > connection. That's a well known problem with OE, it happens quite alot... best to just use a decent messenger prog like Thunderbird :)  SignatureBen Cottrell AKA Bench All these modern celebrities are endorsing supermarket products now... I got a pack of sausages from Tesco the other day and there was this picture of Anthony Worral Thompson on the front. Below, it read 'prick with a fork'. Huh? I have been using OE for five years now and it has never done that to me. DaveL >> Maybe the two problems are related. You might have a flakey internet >> connection. > > That's a well known problem with OE, it happens quite alot... best to just > use a decent messenger prog like Thunderbird :) > Huh? I have been using OE for five years now and it has never done > that to me. > > DaveL Me either. Some people just naturally hate OE and want to slam it whenever possible... After composing my original message, I hit "Send", and it came back and said "message could not be deleted". Huh? Wha? So I tried again. Same thing. WTF? So I tried a 3rd time. Then I finally trold myself to just check the damn NG to see if it had been posted. It had -- 3 times. Then I decided to try a new newsreader (I hate the fact that I use OE -- I feel like an AOL user or something -- you know, like the guy who walks thru the hallway with toilet paper attached to his shoe). So I downloaded Xnews. Tried it -- hate it (it takes forever to DL all the message from the NG -- perhaps I just need to tweak the settings, but man is it slowwww). So the point of my message is (besides allowing everyone to sleep better knowing what my original problem was) WHAT IS A GOOD FAST NEWSREADER I CAN USE? Thanks... David >> Huh? I have been using OE for five years now and it has never done >> that to me. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > whenever > possible... > So the point of my message is (besides allowing everyone to sleep better > knowing what my original problem was) WHAT IS A GOOD FAST NEWSREADER I CAN > USE? Thanks... Been using Mozilla Thunderbird for some months now. Quickly got used to it and now much prefer it. Signature"NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency.... Our three weapons are fear, and surprise, and the ruthless efficiency...and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope.... Amongst our weapons...are fear, surprise, ruth... Amongst our weaponry...are such elements as fear... I'll come in again" So I figured out what was wrong, and I'm still laughing at the roundheads at Sierra/Valve for allowing this to happen. I installed the game, went to play it, and, as I said, nothing. So I read and read and read -- newsgroup posts, forums, even the sierra support page (which by the way, doesn't have squat about this infamous error message). Eventually, something hinted at the fact that there is a seperate program called "Steam" that I needed to have installed. Well, it wasn't installed. Or, it was only partially installed. So, I downloaded it from steampowered.com, and low and behold, I got past the first problem, and stumbled onto a second problem! This time, I got an error message about the steam.dll not having some entry point. So, luckily, since I'm a SW developer, I knew that I either had a corrupt, or out of date, DLL. So I unistalled Steam and reinstalled it. This time it worked! Well, kindof. It brought up this "buy these games" screen, and it had a button to register my version of HL2. Cool, I thought, I'm almost there. Guess again. I went to enter my S/N, and I was told that I need to first install the retail version of HL2. WHA? Huh? WTF??? I've already installed it like 3 times, and I have the bruise on my forehead to prove it! Ok ok ok. I'll uninstall the damn thing and reinstall it. So I did, and about 40 minutes later, I finally got to the slow loading screen, and away I went. What a piece of junk. Sure the game's pretty and sounds good and Oooh, I can pick things up and throw them -- revolutionary! But besides that, this game is the "Gigli" of computer games. Way to go Valve. Good job. Absolutely incredulous. Thank goodness I'm a SW developer, otherwise I'd still be installing, uninstalling, beating my head on the table, calling support numbers that are only open M-F 8-5, hoping someone will pick up anyway. No wonder people hate computers. If it isn't spyware, its these installations that have no notion of "user experience". DCH > From the little I've read so far, it seems a lot of people have had this > issue. WTF? I installed the game, went to run it, and RIGHT AWAY I get [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > David >snipped< Strange - doesn't seem to affect non-software developers in the same way. Perhaps you're over-qualified for installing games? Signature"NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency.... Our three weapons are fear, and surprise, and the ruthless efficiency...and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope.... Amongst our weapons...are fear, surprise, ruth... Amongst our weaponry...are such elements as fear... I'll come in again" >snipped< Strange - doesn't seem to affect non-software developers in the same way. Perhaps you're over-qualified for installing games? ;-) Signature"NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency.... Our three weapons are fear, and surprise, and the ruthless efficiency...and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope.... Amongst our weapons...are fear, surprise, ruth... Amongst our weaponry...are such elements as fear... I'll come in again" > Strange - doesn't seem to affect non-software developers in the same way. > Perhaps you're over-qualified for installing games? ;-) Nahh, looks like it's possible to install HL2 without installing Steam It's obviously a bug in the installation program The rest of the story is called the DLL hell :-) - Peter |
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