Steam and Other Valve Games

Petition for an ultra-lightweight alternate Steam client

Beat Darwin — Tue, 21 May 2013 18:47:37 +0000

I would like a version of Steam that I could load, when I wanted to, as an alternate to the main Steam client (on PC/Mac/Linux). This version would support game launching and possibly game maintenance, only.

Since the only thing we "own" via Steam are licenses to execute the games we have purchased, it would be nice to be able to get to that functionality without a lot of other encumbrance, when we so desire.

For times one wants the full Steam experience, just load that client, instead.

Would anyone else be interested in something like this?

NEW DARKRP SERVER FOR GMOD NEED ADMINS

Kodogaming — Sun, 05 May 2013 10:38:40 +0000

I just made a new DarkRP server a day ago and now it is ready for public I have added Custom Jobs and a good map.
Looking for admins for my new DarkRP server - IP : kodo.game.nfoservers.com:27015
To Apply go to our website: http://kodo.site.nfoservers.com/forums/
Spots open:
Admin
Superadmin
Moderator
Donator of course
Respected
Don't have the map? Here is a download link.
http://www.garrysmod.org/downloads/?a=view&id=129002

HL2:DM file format updated

Skyace65 — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 19:43:24 +0000

just got an update for the game that changes the file format to i assume the new one valve is testing with TF2. its the new steam pipe system

Day of Defeat wont load: "HL.exe abnormal termination"

George Morris — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 21:34:40 +0000

Since the end of February, I haven't been able to get Day of Defeat to load. I have tried reinstalling and clearing out all the cache files, but nothing works.

I'm playing the Valve version of Day of Defeat. Nothing on my computer has changed recently (except maybe for those endless f-ing Java updates). I was able to play just fine last month.

Any suggestions on how to fix this? Is it a known issue of some kind?

Your Testimony

Dragonfire5262 — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 01:43:22 +0000

I wan't to know how alll of you found VALVe. Whether it be, say, you heard about half-life from a friend or something completely different.

How would you remove the "bottleneck" greenlight is?

Broax — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 00:33:08 +0000

Hey everyone!

If you've watched the Gabe's presentation on DICE[1] you're probably talking about his wishes to produce a HL/Portal movie with JJ Abrams but I personally don't nurture very strong feelings for that as this kinds of movies usually fail (I know Gabe Newell is different and Valve isn't Konami, but still).

Anyway, what really caught my attention (as you might deduce from the title) is Valve's plans to open up the Steam store to every developer and game. Specifically how he described Steam as a bottleneck (and later even as a dictatorship[2]) implying the greenlight system is broken and needs to be removed (so soon after it launched nonetheless).

I would like everyone interested in this topic to jump in the discussion and give your interpretation on how this should be handled. Why? Because if it's not done well enough it risks Steam becoming a shovelware store full of mindless puzzle games, pay-to-win social "experiences" and amateurish clones of successful games. Like the app stores of smartphones.

Not to mention a petri dish of every kind of virus, worm, keylogger and phishing scam known to humanity!

This could hurt usability of the Steam store (spending a good half-hour trying to find a specific game) ruining its reputation and credibility and therefore the amazing system we all know and love.

I have my own ideas (obviously) but I'm interested in yours.

Thanks for reading! =)

[1] Link for the video if you haven't seen it yet (it's taken from valve time obviously):
[2] Link for the article quoting Gabe comparison of Steam to a dictatorship: Gameindustry.biz: Valve's Newell on tearing down the Steam "dictatorship"

Redesigned Steam for Tablets

voythas — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 00:18:19 +0000

Hey guys,
I managed to design my own vision of Steam app for Tablets, because now it's and stretched mobile version which I'm not happy of.
Let me know what do you guys think about it, here is link:
http://voythas.com/stuff/steam_fullview.jpg

Version 2: http://voythas.com/stuff/steam_fullview_v2.jpg

Enjoy and leave feedback in comments.

This is a long shot... F-22 Lightning 3 issue

leib10 — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 04:40:54 +0000

Hey guys,

I used to play this a lot when I was a kid and I saw that it was available on Steam. I'm trying to play it with Windows 7, but the cursor isn't working and the screen only updates when I Alt+Tab out and go back in. Is there anybody here who might know how to solve this?

Steam Crashes after logging in.

Dr.IndianaJones — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 18:52:08 +0000

Hello everyone,

It seems today (10/23/12) I have been having a problems with steam.

I will log in to steam, then I get to the main page and then it just shuts down. I've tired logging in again and its the same thing.

Anyone know how to fix this?

Thanks in advance.

Help! Steam won't work!

Dragonfire5262 — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 16:44:51 +0000

My Steam won't work. I've had this problem for a while, and I can't seem to fix it. Whenever I click the steam icon on my taskbar, the "Connecting Steam Account" window pops up, and shortly after, in the taskbar, a small sliver of yellow appears, almost as if it's trying to download something. If it helps, I also recently switched motherboards (yes I did Reinstall Steam) Someone help please!

Choosing game install paths

Mad Muffin — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 20:43:51 +0000

why can i choose the install path of some games,but not others....

can somebody explain this to me?

View attachment 23768

Source Filmmaker

MuToiD_MaN — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 23:30:25 +0000

Anyone else experimenting with this yet? From my humble beginnings it seems like it's pretty easy to use! Futurama and Big Lebowski lipsyncs here we come. Posting one of my favorite creations I've seen thus far to get things started.

Erik Wolpaw and Chet Faliszek to appear at PAX Prime

Spyster — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 11:36:08 +0000

http://prime.paxsite.com/schedule/p...ll-a-conversation-on-game-writing-with-chet-a

Join Stephen “Stepto” Toulouse as he conducts a wide ranging interview with Chet Faliszek and Erik Wolpaw, two of the writers behind some of Valve Software’s best stories. Topics will include working at Valve, challenges and advice on writing in games, what some old man named Murray has to do with anything, and of course your questions in a live Q&A at the end.

Trouble connecting to Steam

The Monkey — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 20:32:35 +0000

On four out of five days that I try to connect to Steam, I get this message:

Sometimes I can gain access a few hours later, sometimes not. This has been going on for a few weeks.

Any ideas?

EDIT:
I checked my firewall, and it's not blocking Steam.

Is there a way to stop group invites from non-friends?

Krynn72 — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 19:29:42 +0000

I keep getting invited to shitty groups by people not even in my friends list. Is there a way to block these invites, while keeping others enabled?

Want Counter Strike Source

black ace — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 23:27:47 +0000

Hello

Please Guys send me Counter Strike Source CD-Key in message
I really want that game

Source Games Basically Unplayable

mesa — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 21:20:00 +0000

Hey all,

Ever since buying a laptop for myself (May '11) I have been having an issue with playing any online source game. I have a Samsung QX410-S02 which is perfectly capable of running more intense games than CS: S, TF2, or L4D1/2. I have played COD4, BLOPS, BF: BC2, SWTOR, EQ2, D3, Guild Wars 2, etc running fine. The issue is that every 30 seconds to a minute, I will skip 3-4 times in a few seconds, making it impossible to do well in Valve's online shooters.

I have tried running the game just the intel graphics card, and just the Nvidia (through Optimus controls) and no change. Running hl2.exe in admin, Windows XP SP2/3 also has no effect. I even tried dual booting with Windows 8, same issue. Unfortunately cannot try XP on this machine as I have issues finding drivers for my HDD. I'm out of luck, been searching like crazy for a year now and cannot find anything to fix this. Any, and I mean any help is appreciated! Let me know if you need more information.

Video of the skipping in multiple games:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_hpk...ature=youtu.be

Windows 7 Home 64bit
Intel Core i5 m480 @ 2.67ghz
Nvidia Quadro 310M / Intel GMA HD (Nvidia Optimus)
4 GB RAM
SATA HDD 5400 RPM

Anyone Got a Spare CS:GO Beta key?

Sir Gungar King of Narnia — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 01:43:09 +0000

Hey people, I Have been looking for a CS:GO key for about 2 months now and the application for one got me nowhere, Has anyone got a spare one i could use please?
If you do please reply

Failed to Find Steam Error

Gman — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 00:26:10 +0000

I have just recently purchased Hitman:Blood Money and when i click play in my Libary i get a error window saying "Application Error:Failed to Find Steam".

I'm quite unhappy because i payed £6.00 for the game and i wish to play it.I read it up on the Internet and i keep seeing the Delete ClientRegistry.blob solution but i am unsure if its safe for all my games and whatnot.

Is there a better solution? I will reboot my computer and see if it fixes.

-Gman

Looking for someone to help me with a steam workshop project.

Dr.IndianaJones — Sun, 03 Jun 2012 00:47:51 +0000

Hi everyone,

I have some really cool ideas to add to the steam workshop, such has some neat DOTA hero skins. Problem is I can't do any 3D modeling (trust me, I have tried). I was wondering if anyone would like to help me with this task.

Please let me know.

Thanks,
Indy

CS:GO beta key

Zach Kaikis — Tue, 22 May 2012 16:57:29 +0000

anyone out there with an extra beta key? slim chances I'm sure but i figured I'd give it a shot

Steam cloud sync error

bobtheskull — Wed, 09 May 2012 18:02:38 +0000

My patience is beginning to wear thin with Steam at the moment. After years of no problems, I'm being plagued with them now!

I logged in to Steam a few minutes ago and all my categories had vanished, with all games in my library in one big list again. I tried to run up a game and got the 'Steam was unable to sync your files for *** with the Steam Cloud'.

I rebooted, and my categories are all back, but i'm still getting the Steam Cloud sync error. Anyone else getting this?

Steam Crashing problems.

bobtheskull — Fri, 04 May 2012 22:04:18 +0000

Ok, for several weeks I've been mostly playing Fallout 3 and New Vegas. In the last 3 or 4 weeks I have been having a lot of stability issues, with both games crashing several times an hour. Sometimes I could have 3 or 4 crashes in 10 minutes! I just figured it was Fallout doing its norm of being a bit flakey sometimes, or GFWL being arsey as usual.

Last week I started noticing it with other games. Binding of Isaac. TF2. Arkham Asylum. MW3 (when it was free to play last week). Lost Planet. Then I got War for Cybertron in the daily sale and ... booom.... 15 mins of play, CRASH.... exactly the same as the others.

Is there any way of verifying the actual Steam Client, in the same way as you can with individual games when they start bugging out? Should I remove and reinstall Steam? All the games seem to be verifying fine. Or maybe its my ageing computer?

This is driving me mental as some games are becoming unplayable.

Steam Account Suspended

Gman — Thu, 03 May 2012 16:35:01 +0000

It's been suspended for quite a long time now and Steam have not did a thing.I have did the ticket thing and it is not working.It got suspended after that thing where you could get Portal 2 and many more games for free.I just want to play my games now.Any tips?

half life 2.!

diidas — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:18:28 +0000

hey.
Im here with a question
about half life 2.
in fact i need a gift of
half life 2, can someone
send a gift to my
steam ? please i realy
want. i cant buy because
of credit card... :/
so please can someone
send ?
my steam : ihnag1 email:
dvdlinsk@gmail.com
please, i realy want hl2
gift
if guys dsnt have hl2
gift. I want a css, cs 1.6
or day of deafeat source,
please ;/

Fake steam site trying to get your account!

Zombie In A Kilt — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 04:55:11 +0000

My friend on steam gave me this site it looks fake and I'm pretty sure it is.
I also think he got hacked because he tried to get a game from the site and he's been acting really strange sinnce then...
So I'm just warning you all for this :/

Anyone still play Red Orchestra 2?

HardenedMetapod — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 05:33:55 +0000

I need people to play with now that I can finally run it.

SoaSE Mods

EvolvedPie — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 03:01:51 +0000

I was wondering if anyone knew what the best program is of creating and editing mods for Sins of a Solar Empire? And what mods would be good to take a look at for ideas about how it has been done in the past? Or any ideas about mods that would be fun to play.

I couldn’t find a post on this already but if there is one please feel free to point out what an idiot I am and then could you very kindly point be in the right direction.

Many thanks.
xx

New Maps For DOD Source Here

harkinm007 — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 09:12:49 +0000

Hello all. I have spent some time looking around the web and found it hard to locate new maps in a centralised location so here is a thread to add links to new maps for DOD Source.

I am mapping right now and have placed some on a few websites to get the thread started, although it took some time to find sites and even then the maps I added were the first in a few years! Come on DODers - make some more maps and upload them.

DOD maps are varied from WW2 type | Fun type | Orange type | etc.

redwater1 (gun game)

http://www.strategyinformer.com/pc/dayofdefeatsource/map/40916.html

redwater1 (ctf)

http://www.strategyinformer.com/pc/dayofdefeatsource/map/40915.html

dod_para_s (ctf)

http://www.strategyinformer.com/pc/dayofdefeatsource/map/40421.html

or

http://www.map-factory.org/day-of-defeat-source/cp-control-point/dod-para-s-3-bsp-3526

appid not configured

Acepilotf14 — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 21:51:25 +0000

I've been getting this error all day now when I try to run TF2- it loads the valve logo splash screen, gets to the menu loading screen then freezes and pops up this error with the windows error dialogue.

I've tried verifying the game cache, then redownloading the game altogether. Did nothing.

Does anyone still play this game?

samusaran253 — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 13:30:48 +0000

Are there still a lot of players and servers up? I'm thinking about buying this game.

Some artsy pics I found.

Kyzr — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 04:05:16 +0000

Just some artistic pics from day of defeat that I found interesting. Although I doubt, with the massive amount of traffic the dod:s forum gets, that too many people will see these. Oh well.

http://imgur.com/a/PmZxC

there is a way to start steam in offline mode?

Mon, 29 Aug 2011 07:47:05 +0000

my internet sucks so sometimes I dont have it

and cant start steam cuz of that,when I try it says something like "since there is no start info on this pc offline mode cant be activated" which means exactly what?

that I can do start it in offline in some way?

is there a way for it or I am screwed if I dont have internet?

How The **** Do You Get Steam Tech Support To Respond?

chickenrex — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 15:00:26 +0000

I've been waiting for four days for a response on two tickets for the same problem.

(That problem being, by the way the "Your Steam Account Is In Use On Another Machine" error message, which needs some explaining since we're supposed to be able to run Steam on more than one machine.)

Are they being affected by the hurricane, or suffering from some personal tragedy, or do they just not give a shit?

Anyone who knows or can offer assistance, please respond. My e-mail address is Nreal_6@hotmail.com.

Steam grouping of friends.

hool10 — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 13:59:57 +0000

Your playing Killing Floor and you find a great player to play with so you add him. You also play Eve Online and have a few friends on Steam. You also have a few friends from this site as well. I think you get the point but by the end you have a bunch of people on your friends list and your like "who is that person"? It gets worse when they change their names constantly as well with avatar. Wouldn't it be great to add friends and group them into categories like x-fire? Well now you finally can do that if you enable the beta version of Steam: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2052495

-Added bucketing of friends in the friends list – right-click on a friend as select ‘Tag as…’ to organize them into categories.
-Fixed a case where Steam Guard would unnecessarily re-ask for activation in the Steam Client.

My friend wants HL2....

Zombie In A Kilt — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 13:54:17 +0000

Hey...
I don't like to beg but my friend wants HL2 so badly but his mum won't let him get it and i'm totally broke.
But perhaps someone else could buy it for him instead of me? I could even trade all my TF2 stuff for it.

Need Help in MW2 (Spec Ops)

Overwatch Sector — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 01:39:03 +0000

I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask and I'm not asking for an answer but I'm asking for someone to help me in Call of Duty : Modern Warfare 2 Special Ops.

I need help on Bravo Missions Overwatch and Big Brother on Veteran. my friends suck so I need a really good player to help me. My steam profile can be clicked next to my name the post. Thank you for reading and hopefully I can find someone to help me.

Guide: Simplest Way to Make a Half-Life Deathmatch:Source Dedicated Server

cpt. obvious — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 17:34:55 +0000

This is the simplest and easiest way to set up a dedicated server for Half-Life Deathmatch:Source.

Note: You Must Own Half-Life Source/Half Life Deathmatch:Source to do this.

1. Download Source Dedicated Server - If you do not already have this on steam, go and download it. It is free and is in the tools section of your main steam window.

2. Go and download GCFScape - Download just the installer here.

3. Extract the GCFs - Extract all the files from the GCF files half-life source.gcf and half life deathmatch source.gcf, which are located here: C:/Program Files/Steam/steamapps/
Extract these files into the following folder: C:/Program Files/Steam/steamapps/YOURUSERNAME/source dedicated server/

Note: If you have a 64 bit operating system like I do, then "Program Files" will be "Program Files (x86)" because Steam is a 32 bit application.

4. Launch Your Server: Go to your steam main window and go to the tools section. Click on Source Dedicated Server, which you should of installed earlier, and wait for it to load. Select under the "game" menu "HALF-LIFE: Deathmatch". Then choose your map and other server options and, finally, launch your server!

It's that simple!

Any questions just reply to this topic.

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