Safe Hands Posted May 25, 2009 Share Posted May 25, 2009 Is anybody else Steam down? Cant play as Steam needs to do an update but keep getting a message saying Steam cant contact. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZacWBA Posted May 25, 2009 Share Posted May 25, 2009 Having the same problem. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aim_Less Posted May 25, 2009 Share Posted May 25, 2009 no probs here- go steam folder m find the clientregistry.blob file and delete it and now start steam Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamilton162 Posted May 25, 2009 Share Posted May 25, 2009 Nope, have you tried creating a desktop shortcut and launching the game using that? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Safe Hands Posted May 25, 2009 Author Share Posted May 25, 2009 no probs here-go team steam folder m find the clientregistry.blob file and delete it and now start steam Thanks mate thats done the trick Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aim_Less Posted May 25, 2009 Share Posted May 25, 2009 glad i could help Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lodzubelieveit Posted May 25, 2009 Share Posted May 25, 2009 I'm still having the same problem as Safe Hands - it briefly tries an update (0%) and then I get "Cannot contact the Steam network, please try later". Please forgive my lack of computer knowledge, but how do you go about doing the proposed solution, i.e. go steam folder m find the clientregistry.blob file and delete it and now start steam - where can I get to 'Steam Folder m'? 'Clientregistry.blob' is the name of a file in that folder, and I should delete it? Seems odd that the exact same thing is happening to at least two of us after months of problem-free usage of Steam. I take it from that, then, that this is a Steam issue rather than something amiss with our computers? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aim_Less Posted May 25, 2009 Share Posted May 25, 2009 C:\program files\steam it should be here . clientregistry.blob is the file were our info is stored ( account name , status of the games you have if their updated or not , if steam is updated etc) sometimes that file gets corrupted you just need to delete it and steam will update himself and restore a new file to replace the corrupted one Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lodzubelieveit Posted May 26, 2009 Share Posted May 26, 2009 Ah yes, seems to be working now. Cheers! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakobx Posted May 26, 2009 Share Posted May 26, 2009 ah steam and clientregistry.blob. Still having problems with it after many many years. I remember having to do that when i was still playing counterstrike. I see they improved the user friendliness of steam by 0%. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aim_Less Posted May 26, 2009 Share Posted May 26, 2009 whats so hard about deleting a flie with a few kb ? its not like you have to delete it every week >.> i dont delete mine in months Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakobx Posted May 26, 2009 Share Posted May 26, 2009 Its annoying and is not exactly common knowledge that deleting one of the tens of thousands of files on the computer magically fixes a steam problem. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
satanasangel Posted May 26, 2009 Share Posted May 26, 2009 I uninstalled steam, was a waste of time to be honest. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aim_Less Posted May 26, 2009 Share Posted May 26, 2009 Its annoying and is not exactly common knowledge that deleting one of the tens of thousands of files on the computer magically fixes a steam problem. if you search the steam knowledge base its there along with a lot of usefull info I uninstalled steam, was a waste of time to be honest. how so? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wesleysonck Posted May 26, 2009 Share Posted May 26, 2009 I'd like to know what the point of steam is. In fact I don't even know what it is!! From what I can gather it just updates automatically. Any other point to it? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aim_Less Posted May 26, 2009 Share Posted May 26, 2009 this answers your question http://store.steampowered.com/about/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wesleysonck Posted May 26, 2009 Share Posted May 26, 2009 Hmm, kind of like an iTunes for games then. Quite like the idea of playing the game on any computer mind. That would be useful for someone with a deskbound job and a shocking work ethic I imagine! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aim_Less Posted May 26, 2009 Share Posted May 26, 2009 has a gamer is useful for me because i can see where my friends are playing and i can join them if i want but unfortunately most users of this forum have retrograded minds and don't like new stuff and only see FM has a game , the fact is that there a lot of games out there and a program like this is useful i can manage my 90 registered games on steam easily and don't need to insert any type of cd to play them , and i don't have too look for patches to them , as a developer is also useful because you can sell your game to anywhere in the globe there near 15 million steam accounts and those 15 million find the program useful but i guess their all wrong right here is my profile https://steamcommunity.com/id/scorpio Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
taylorsmen Posted May 26, 2009 Share Posted May 26, 2009 I uninstalled steam, was a waste of time to be honest.Don't agree,ive never had any problems with it in the 5 or so years ive had installed. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.