So Half Life 2 Episode 1 came out last week so I re-installed Half Life 2 on my system, fired up Steam and got a Steam Busy error. After fooling around with it for about 1/2 hour I went out to the Steam site and found that there are pages of reasons that Steam might not work on a system. I went through all of these, including making sure the right ports were open (I even bypassed my router and went directly to the cable modem), restarted Steam, ran (and passed) the online Steam port test. I still don't know what the problem is, and so filed a support issue.
Now I might not be the sharpest pencil in the jar, but if I can't figure this out, I'm guessing there are far more novice gamers than me who cannot. Heck, I've spent 2 hours on this already. Should it even be necessary for me to go out to a forum to get this fixed? Is it unreasonable for me to expect that it should just work?
I like the idea of episodic content, and I also like the idea of being able to download it, so long as it's seamless. This, however, is crazy!
Posted by Kevin at Tuesday June 13, 2006 - 1:43 PM | TrackBack (0) | Category: PC Games | © 2006 Gaming Signal
That is so odd in that I have never had a problem with Steam even after several reinstalls on multiple machines. Combine that with a complete recovery of my previous installs, and I consider it far better than almost any other distribution mechanism.
Posted by Tim on Tuesday June 13, 2006 at 4:19 PM
Yeah, we talked about this in person yesterday Kevin. I don't have these issues either and on top of that, I just did the same thing you did. Total reinstall of my whole PC and Steam worked perfectly.
In fact, all I had to do was plug in my credentials and all the games that you get with the Gold membership re-downloaded over only one night. I think that was over 12Gb of data overnight.
There has to be a router/PC issue that is limiting you somehow.
Posted by tditto on Wednesday June 14, 2006 at 10:45 AM