Steam Making Chief Mad!

[HALO]MasterChief · Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 12:32 pm Post subject: Steam Making Chief Mad!

ok stupid steam isnt doing anything. i am trying to connect and it says "preparing to play dod" and it does nothing. then i close it and go to open steam again and it says a copy is running even though i closed it. i've been trying to play dod for about an hour now and its really making me mad. Sorry i just had to vent
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Mulder · Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 2:06 pm Post subject:

If you have DoD retail you dont need steam to play on steam dod servers.

Twisted29 · Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 2:22 pm Post subject:

It takes about 3 minutes for that screen to go away for me. But then I'm in, and it works fine.
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merf · Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 2:30 pm Post subject: Re: Steam Making Chief Mad!

SpeCies · Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 2:46 pm Post subject:

1)Close Steam
2)Go to C:\Program Files\Steam\config and delete two files
Masterservers.vdf and Serverbrowser.vdf
3)Open Steam and hit refresh once and let it complete it's update.
4)Close Steam

It should be fixed.

If not try reinstalling steam

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cobra · Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 3:10 pm Post subject:

is it done updating yet?
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Monk · Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 3:29 pm Post subject:

Uh oh. I deleted those files and opened Steam, but it didn't make an attempt to update. Is this a problem? TFC works fine for me, but I haven't been able to get DOD to work.
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[HALO]MasterChief · Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 5:06 pm Post subject:

[HALO]MasterChief · Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 7:07 pm Post subject:

Replica · Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 7:11 pm Post subject:

did you check the system tray?
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[HALO]MasterChief · Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 7:13 pm Post subject:

Paddyjack · Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 7:31 pm Post subject:

turn off your firewall?
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[HALO]MasterChief · Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 8:05 pm Post subject:

Kazebari · Official Mall Ninja Joined: 28 Apr 2002 Posts: 935

try opening the game from your "games" list first, then finding a server.

SpeCies · Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 9:13 pm Post subject:

The files refurbish theirselves after the update. Right-click the steamed icon and then choose games. Right-click the game DOD and select properties, make sure it specifys "Always keep this game Up to Date" and then close steam and reboot.

If this fails I would just do a re-install