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I'm having trouble connecting to steam. I also can't find any online servers.
I have ruled out any firewall problems as all this is working over dailup.
I have re-installed steam and windows... The steam update seems to be working fine, and if I type in the wrong password it tells me so, it is only after that, that i get the error connecting to steam.
I have 92 - 100% signal and have changed my MTU to 1392.
Any other ideas? :confused:
Perhaps you are just experiencing the stuttering/unresponsiveness problem (like the rest of us), have you tried the Workaround?
Failing that I have no idea bcos eyes no gamer.
Changed to Ethernet cable and it is fixed!! One more thing, cow I get that iburst terminal to work without the usb cable and drivers? And I've read that some people change towers manually, how?!!
Crash
11-01-2005, 07:46 AM
I've tried to get the USB to work while the ethernet is connected so you can use the UTD Terminal. No luck. Either or I'm afraid.
I got HL2 on Sunday (2 days ago).... steam worked fine, can't get the game to run!!! Grrrrr.
Mercury
11-01-2005, 11:59 PM
I had a similar problem over the past few days with the copy I installed a couple of weeks ago. The "Initializing..." dialog box appeared and then terminated prematurely. I tried two things. The first was temporarily adding "+mat_forcehardwaresync 0 +snd_async_prefetch_priority 1" to the command in the properties for Half Life 2. The second was running a background ping to improve response time from iBurst.
Something must have worked since it downloaded the most recent patch file and ran again.
Buck I had been having problems gaming on line, specifically due to SUPER high latency. I then switched to the ethernet cable and it sorted my problem out too. Weird.
Buck I had been having problems gaming on line, specifically due to SUPER high latency. I then switched to the ethernet cable and it sorted my problem out too. Weird.
I could not even find a server?!
Now with the ethernet hookup I'm getting pings between 45 and 140!
Does anyone know why this could be? Problem with driver maybe?
AcidRaZor
12-01-2005, 09:15 PM
USB is notoriously slow