In the past few days, I finished building and transitioned into my new high-power PC with Windows 7 64 bit, and bequeathed my old machine running Windows XP Media Center 32 bit to my younger brother, who had to make due before with a machine from the first quarter of the past decade in terms of power.
Needless to say, it was like a late Christmas for the both of us. Problems installing Windows 7 at first meant I had to set up my bro's machine first, and since he likes TF2 so much, I thought as soon as I'd upgraded him to SP3 that I'd put on Steam and let him log onto my account till my new machine was finally ready.
Now, I'd never managed to install SP3 before on the old machine. The HP software that came with it had put it into a reboot loop last time. But since I'd already recovered the system back to factory settings, I figured there's relatively little risk in trying. It succeeded, and things were going well.
But then my brother tried to play TF2 and couldn't find any servers. At first I thought it was a problem with his wireless adapter, except he could play Counter Strike online easily. I shrugged at the problem and decided I'd deal with it later.
Then, once my machine was running in it's 64-bit, DDR2, PCI Express 2.0, 8.4 gigahertz glory, I came to realize I had the same problems as my brother. No servers found in the search, and I couldn't understand it. I tried playing Left 4 Dead 2, and played a good round of Versus Mode, but for some reason, Team Fortress 2 was failing to start up, and on a COMPLETELY different machine from the old machine, a machine which not a week ago I could play a round of 2Fort at this very workstation using this very Internet connection.
It seems too strange to me. The same problem on two different Operating Systems. My brother and I don't even connect to the Internet the same way. While he has a wireless adapter, any computer at my workstation has relied on either a direct connection, or in this case, an Ethernet cord connected to a device plugged into the wall socket which communicates to the fiber-optic modem/router. The only thing our machines really have in common is being 100% up-to-date with the latest patches downloaded from Windows Update.
As mentioned, the old machine had stuck with XP Service Pack 2 until it was handed over to my brother and upgraded to SP3. The only guess I have is that somewhere along the line, a common Windows patch or option has barred both machines from finding TF2 servers, but this only narrows down to an answer I'm not savvy enough to recognize or suspect.
I can't imagine this has happened to everyone with Windows 7 Home Premium or XP SP3, so surely some unique factor is running both machines afoul.
I don't suppose anyone can venture a guess?
Many thanks in advance.
I just put back together an old machine of mine and had the same problem, it seems to be quite prevalent right now. All I can say is make sure TF2 is an exception in the windows firewall (or whatever one one you use) and that you might try forwarding the ports for steam I believe they are 27000-27050, both UDP and TCP. [URL]http://portforward.com/[/URL] is a good source if you don't know how to do it.
No port forwarding.
I had this.
[url]https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=1452-HCVB-6984[/url]
BT Home Hub Users is the place you need to check.
Do the all steps, and open it again.
Don't give up quickly, it'll show.
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