Help Somebody Thread

I have an old copy of half life that i purchased and i have installed the new steam prog and i am trying to play inline but when it gets to the game it hangs at "Recaching Game Resources" and then just times out from the server. it does it on half life, cs, day of defeat everything, i have a 1.5 meg connection so there should be no prob there

Can someone help

The Sator

its fully updated and everything? If not that it could be firewalls coming into play.

It's fully updated with all the patches and shit, and the firewall has been turned off, when i start it from steam in windows not in the game it gets to veryfing game recources and then crashes also

dude... I dunno how to help you, but get used to crap like this, steam is notorious for it.... like on mine I can only play one mod because they are all listed as the exact same mod... its just ignorant people not knoing how to make a program srry I coul'dnt help

cool man thanks anyways, By the way when is hl 2 coming out and are we going to have to use this steam crap to play hl 2 as well?

yep....

do you know where i can get some help, does steam have like tech support or some shit like that

www.steampowered.com

Go to the forums, register, and ask for help there. I also moved this to Technical Support 10 minutes ago. Its where requests for help like this go.

Ok so i found out the solution, steam is fucked up in the way it downloads the game updates and shit and so it hangs half way through loading the game while it casualy starts downloading about 700 meg, if you goto properties in the play games menu, then you can turn off automatic download for the games until you have downloaded them induvidually, just so you know, maybe that's whats wrong with yours??

Actually no. The way Steam works is that it trickle downloads your games and patches. If you click 'monitor' in the main menu then it shows you what it's downloading. Personally I recommend setting every game you install to 'Keep this game updated automatically' in the Preferences.

If it hangs whilst loading the game, it's actually because it's being clever and downloading what you need to play. Give Steam time to get the game (you can check for 'Amount Acquired' in Monitor or in properties for each game).

To avoid this problem with HL2, you can PreLoad it. This is pointless if you're getting HL2 on DVD/CSs, but if you're ordering it over Steam then double click Half-Life 2 in your games menu and you can preload all the content and play the game as soon as it's released

I had the same problem with Day of Defeat on my old 400mhz - and it was actually the problem of the processor not the connection. It worked for me after I disabled the precaching by a console command, I'm not sure if it was something like "lazy_precache 1" or "precache 0", try both. It should work.