So I haven't been on steam for a little while because of heavy schoolwork load recently, and I've come back to find it has turned into a joke. I can't even run a game, as soon as I hit play even if it's fully updated it'll say "scanning for updates" and won't let me do anything else. If I try to click anywhere aside from scanning updates it makes this stupid ringing noise like it's shaking it's finger at me for wanting to play games. Also, it might be worth mentioning that if I close this and then try to hit play again, it will just pop up the scanning for updates menu once again. Even if I tell it "do not automatically keep this game up to date" it will still do it. It will eventually go after an excruciatingly long period of time, but this is honestly ridiculous. I read something about how it's to do with "encryption" but that's obviously a lie, the game is already downloaded and I could play it before, why not now? It's already on my computer. What did valve do to cause this error?
tl;dr: Steam is doing some kind of stupid scanning for updates thing that locks down steam until you do it for a long time. Why?
itt: one user has a simple issue and suddenly the entire program is a piece of shit.
Delete clientregistry.blob
Restart steam.
Please, just look for errors on google and stop assuming that Gabe is trying to break all your stuff.
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Gabe is trying to break all your stuff.
Gabe is fucking with you. He told us.
Do you get the error code: ID10T?
[QUOTE=Bigboy855;22559445]Do you get the error code: ID10T?[/QUOTE]
Pretty sure this is a between chair-and-keyboard interfacing issue.
I didn't say steam was crap, or that I didn't like it anymore I was wondering why it was doing something ridiculous, which is perfectly legitimate. I did google it, and I got 15 threads of people wondering the exact same thing and uninformed people saying "it's encrypting guys!". If the answer was to delete that file why not just say that...?
Dude. You've been here nearly 4 years with 5000 posts, you think people won't make fun of you? You should know better.
[QUOTE=MrEndangered;22559525]Dude. You've been here nearly 4 years with 5000 posts, you think people won't make fun of you? You should know better.[/QUOTE]
I'm quite aware that people on facepunch have a tendency to act extremely immature, I just didn't expect it to be this bad. Oh well, somebody knew how to fix it though I was more wondering -why- it was happening.
Reinstall steam?
There's a whole forum for this.
Also PEBCAK
[QUOTE=Elspin;22559575]I'm quite aware that people on facepunch have a tendency to act extremely immature, I just didn't expect it to be this bad. Oh well, somebody knew how to fix it though I was more wondering -why- it was happening.[/QUOTE]
I don't know, probably corrupted steam registry files to do with verifying encryption/ownership. (ass pull)
But in your post you complained that Valve were trying to do something to your games, that's why we made fun of you. :regd08:
Oh wow, I guess that does sound pretty hilarious. All I meant by it was what is causing the error, of course I don't think there's some kind of conspiracy to ruin my fun.
"Steam is doing some kind of stupid scanning for updates thing that locks down steam until you do it for a long time."
..What?
delete "appupdatestats.blob" try again. Had the same problem today.
[QUOTE=Elspin;22559575]I'm quite aware that people on facepunch have a tendency to act extremely immature, I just didn't expect it to be this bad. Oh well, somebody knew how to fix it though I was more wondering -why- it was happening.[/QUOTE]
Every damn time someone posts something dumb like this people start saying funny/stupid shit and OP goes " I knew you were bad, but not this bad ".
Guys, RENAME clientregistry.blob so you can send the old one with problems to valve and they can understand what the hell's going wrong.
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