When Steam Updated For You.

Navck · March 2004

<div class="IPBDescription">The update from yesterday... Or today...</div> Steam - Updating -1%

They forgot to space the 1%... Or not
Later.. 2 hours passed

Steam - Updating - 5%

Congrats to Steam for fixing its negative number error
Then 1 hour later

Steam-Updating - 6%
Me:WTH??

No cookie for their error in spacing.
4 hours later

Steam - Updating -35%
Me:*Bangs head on carpet floor*
Me:*Starts swearing at computer*

Night...
Steam - Updating - 99%
Me:*Does dance*

Steam - Updating -100%
Me:NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Steam has been updated

Me:What the?? You mean downgraded.

Steam has funky update errors. Negative updates?

After the hours of pain and suffering, Steam updates. Luckly I could run a game with it updating using 25% of CPU(Pentium 4 2.66 GHZ!)And a few other apps while it updated

They even forget to fix the simple errors. Spacing.

Note I woke up in the night having a nightmare that steam would go nuts while updating, just to see 97%, so I sat there. Waiting, and waiting and waiting. 35 minutes later...

Does it take them that long to get a update that can be fitted into a small compressed file that uses less than 100 MB? Because if a dial up user waits for this download, its going to be a 3 day download for him

That was what I posted in Svencoop forums
Thats what happened.

Tequila · March 2004

Look mate, we're sick of the whining. We <i>know</i> Steam had problems last night; its bandwidth was eaten up by around 200,000+ users. If you'd had some common-sense and just left it till the next day, you'd have saved some major headaches. As of this moment, Steam works fine for me, and if it were to go down I could get along just fine on the offline mode.

ZiGGY · March 2004

I never even noticed it update, too ill to play also sitting on a T1 so probably both were a factor.

Thansal · March 2004

Here is the deal:

Steam's MAIN Problems are these:
1) The Client dosn't look around for the best content server and then try to connect. Instead it seems to pick on at random and then stay there (thus certain servers get overloaded and other ones are just fine)

2) It takes a hard Reboot to force steam to switch content server (I did 3 reboots last night and on the third on I downloaded the patch in a few mins)

3) It seems that their Webserver is probably the same server as the conneciton server (thus if steam is down steampowered.com is down also)

I know steam is working in some degree atm (as I can refresh about 30 Steam NS servers), however other then that I can not touch steam.

oh well, lets go play flash games <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' />

Varsity · March 2004

There is a registry entry for Steam called lastserver. You may want to try experimenting with changing that. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' />

Bill_Door · March 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Navck @ Mar 4 2004, 06:44 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Me:What the?? You mean downgraded.

Steam has funky update errors. Negative updates?  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
It downgraded itself for me sometime today.
Now its completely FUBAR, not slightly bugged.

MedHead · March 2004

Wow, as much as I've disliked the switch to Steam, I found the switch overall pretty painless. I was able to update very quickly, play the game, disconnect - and the game had yet to completely be patched! While Steam client had been updated, the games themselves had yet to completely update! I was able to download the rest later, when I reconnected to Steam. If Steam could work for everyone, it would be a pretty good system. Hopefully they get the bugs worked out (and also get the requirements lowered to what Half Life once required).

Retales · March 2004

I guess Steam has updated now. Whenever I start it, it goes straight to 'Login'. But no matter what I write in the password box (yes, I tried my password and I tried something random) Steam waits a while and says it's unable to connect to Steam network. Is this caused by the traffic?

Monkfish · March 2004

yeah just keep trying it <i>should</i> work

Nemesis_Zero · March 2004

By the way, congratulations for keeping this away from Steam bashment for so long. *Wipes tear of pride away.* <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' />

Bill_Door · March 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Nemesis Zero @ Mar 4 2004, 08:37 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> By the way, congratulations for keeping this away from Steam bashment for so long. *Wipes tear of pride away.* <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
I only bash steam when it doesn't work and I'm annoyed by it.
...Dammit. For a second I thought it worked... Meh, I'll try again later.
EDIT: Well, Steam's running. Can't play any games though, I get this message box when I try:
<img src='http://img28.photobucket.com/albums/v83/Mjki3se2/Steamerror.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
EDIT(2):Going to nuke the cached games and mods and try again. Maybe that'll fix it...
EDIT(3)Removed HL, and re-installing. At one point I had 3.4 Mb/s download rate <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif' />
EDIT(4)Still fails with the above error message.

Hybridclaw · March 2004

i remember the old steam update problem....

steam updating - 98%
(YAY)
Steam updating - 99%
(so close!!)
Steam update - 100%
(YAHOO!!!)
Steam updating - 101%
(WTH)

What a classic.... that was the <i>funniest</i> thing ever.....

MedHead · March 2004

For some more insight into what happened, and why the updates took longer, check out the Steam news page. It seems they were under a DDoS attack for two hours, as well as simply being overloaded from the amount of client update requests.

<a href='http://www.steampowered.com/?area=news' target='_blank'>http://www.steampowered.com/?area=news</a>

JediYoshi · March 2004

i couldn't even tell when steam was updating.

o_O

(but it did, so i'm happy)

Venmoch · March 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (MedHead @ Mar 5 2004, 03:40 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> It seems they were under a DDoS attack for two hours,  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
Let me guess what was running through the minds of the DDoS'er at this time was

"OMG STEAM SUCKS!!! I CAN'T PLAY COUNTER-STRIKE ON WOM OMG STEAM IS FULL OF SPYWARE OMG VALVE SUCK UP TO MICROSOFT VALVE SUCK VALVE SUCK......... etc etc"

Seriously when it works Steam will be superb. And anyway Steam is a better and more secure WON anyway, I don't know what your all worrying about.

Thansal · March 2004

yup.

We need to find these people and visit them with baseball bats.

The one thing I am confuzeled about:
How hard is it to defend against a DDoS attack?
I mean, on the release of Steam this happened also, you would think they would expect it now.....

Xodlike · March 2004

My steam updated in 10 seconds. *Hugs 3.4 mbps*
But now I get some strange error I cant get rid of, and cant connect to anything, except FRIENDS LIST.

Bill_Door · March 2004

<img src='http://img28.photobucket.com/albums/v83/Mjki3se2/Steamerror.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
Is it that one, Xodlike?

I recommend against attempting to re-install steam. It now has the following error on start up;
<img src='http://img28.photobucket.com/albums/v83/Mjki3se2/SteamFatalError.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
EDIT:I got a new version of the steam installer off the steampowered.com website and its updated.
EDIT(2):Its sucessfully logged in and updated again. Now to reaquire HL.
EDIT(3): HL works. Now to re-install the mods.

DarkATi · March 2004

STEAM is a great app... I have a 2.66 Ghz P4 and DSL and it works fine for me. You guys may loath it but maybe your systems or connections are to blame eh? Sometimes anyway... <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' />

~ DarkATi

Bill_Door · March 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (DarkATi @ Mar 5 2004, 03:46 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> STEAM is a great app... I have a 2.66 Ghz P4 and DSL and it works fine for me. You guys may loath it but maybe your systems or connections are to blame eh? Sometimes anyway... <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' />

~ DarkATi </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
Not for the previous two bugs I had encountered:
Half Life process not exiting when I exit the program,
Steam crashing on exit.

Mind you, they weren't all that bad.

As for the multiple installs, the only change was a large steam update.

I will concede that the problem with the re-install could well be my computer. Or equally with Steam itself, or the Auth / content servers, I just don't know.
EDIT:It appears that the installer I got off the Ozforces mirror was to blame.

Xodlike · March 2004

Nope. It was a steam problem, Code 31, something about validation.
Fixed now, I just played some NS ^_^ Now Im afraid to logout and shutdown my comp, what if steam refuses to login again.

MedHead · March 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Thansal @ Mar 5 2004, 10:43 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> The one thing I am confuzeled about:
How hard is it to defend against a DDoS attack?
I mean, on the release of Steam this happened also, you would think they would expect it now.....  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
There is no way to defend against that attack. The attack comprises of <b>many</b> computers executing countless requests on the server at one time, which eventually overloads the server, making it unavailable to anyone.

OttoDestruct · March 2004

*edit*
GAH ill upload pic later

Thats what I got after the update when wanting to play HL... only happened once...

When Steam Updated For You.

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