All of a sudden, I can't seem to launch Steam, only plausible reason would be that something happened when I removed some infections using an anti-virus yesterday.
All I get is the loading bar, staying at 0%, then going over to telling me that "Steam is unavailable at this time, please try again later"
Started yesterday, still isn't working today, so I'm guessing it won't resolve itself, help please?
Still isn't working, even tried deleting clientregistry.blob.
Same here, had it yesterday too.
As I said, I've had a couple viruses these days, and I think it might be possible that the virus somehow changed the proxy settings that Steam use (if it does), making it unable to really connect to my net even though it's running correctly. Any way to fix this, without having to re-install?
[QUOTE=alex525;21944176]Any way to fix this, without having to re-install?[/QUOTE]
Reinstalling isn't bad, just copy all the folders of content you wish to keep. That would be what I'd do.
I have a shitload of content that I wish to keep, though.
I WILL do it though, if there's no other way to fix it.
download steam and run the repair option from the installer, then try. If that doesn't work reset your router and delete clientregistry.blob
instead of copying, do a move operation to somewhere on the same hard disk, usually then it does so instantly, as instead of actually copying the files, it can just update the Directory info.
i'm pretty sure all you have to do is delete everything in your steam folder except for steam.exe and your steamapps folder
and then run steam.exe and it should redownload everything
[QUOTE=Pikablu07;21945557]i'm pretty sure all you have to do is delete everything in your steam folder except for steam.exe and your steamapps folder
and then run steam.exe and it should redownload everything[/QUOTE]
Uh huh, didn't do shit apart from ask for a source file, I tried to direct it to the Steam Installer and it didn't accept it.
I've reset the router, deleted the clientregistry.blob, nothing helps.
Also found out that my firewall wasn't accessible amongst other network related things, something fucked up with my network, somehow Steam is thinking that my internet ain't working or something.
Then I also tried to use the Steaminstall.msi to REPAIR Steam, but no, didn't work either, tells me;
"Error 1316. a network error occurred while attempting to read from the file steaminstall_Swedish.msi."
Must be a problem on valve's end
Fuck this sucks.
[QUOTE=Magman77;21948417]Fuck this sucks.[/QUOTE]
Of course it does.
I'm highly unsure that this issue is going to solve itself, either one of my anti-viruses or viruses fucked stuff up.
Firefox and IE stopped working amongst other things after a system crash, didn't know how it happened, woke up to a BSOD a morning, not much said except that the system had shut down.
I have found the trojan I believe is causing most of it, but I can't remove the motherfucker, no virus program seems to be able to.
-snip-
Re-installed, still the same issue.
I had a similar problem (Steam updates at 27%, stops, says it's temporarily unavailable). I'm in talk with Steam support, 4 of their suggested fixes haven't worked already, I'm probably just going to reformat to be honest..
Download a fully updated working Steam directory from [URL="http://www.dojodesigns.net/steam.html"]here[/URL], extract it to your desktop and run it. It'll serve as a temporary fix until you can find the cause.
Also, for trojan removal support, I suggest you go to the [URL="http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/index.php?"]BleepingComputer[/URL] forums. Their support workers managed to fix a bugger of a rootkit in 3 days. Be patient though, they're flooded with hundreds of threads per day.
Oh man, thank you, putting in the Steam directory seemed to solve the issue, thanks alot!
Now, to put all the games back.
[B]FUCK.[/B]
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