Steam Crashed on the FDG Scrimmage Day?

[Odale]

I was voice chatting with Icthus earlier today and Steam crashed on us. When I went to join the Scrimmage, my TF2 was stuttering and staggering and the announcer lady's voice was doing the same thing. Is it a steam issue?

I just noticed that it dropped the rest of you off.

 

[Hescominsoon]

steam has been up and down like a blinking light for the past couple of hours.

 

[Odale]

/sigh

Worst piece of internet gaming junk in the world.

At least it is free.

 

[Tek7]

I know, of all nights to give out, it had to be tonight, right?

Several people were having trouble with Steam all night. I specifically remember Shagz and Elihu also having troubles getting in to the FDG server after a map change.

Many thanks for making your best effort to join us, Odale. Any chance you'd be interested in BURNINATING the peasants should we arrange a second scrim?

 

[Odale]

I know, of all nights to give out, it had to be tonight, right?

...

Many thanks for making your best effort to join us, Odale. Any chance you'd be interested in BURNINATING the peasants should we arrange a second scrim?

I would gladly set a-light our enemies, but alas, 24 hours later, the game is still "unavailable".

Suggestions are welcome -_-.

 

[Keero]

Reinstall Steam and try logging in with another account to test it?

 

[Odale]

I was trying to avoid doing that, but I guess I have no choice.

Starting.

 

[Odale]

I just uninstalled steam, not the games themselves and it is making me download them again?

What kind of logic is that...

 

[Odale]

I used the CD's and I am okay now. Wish it could have happened earlier so I could have fixed it for the scrimmage date... -_-

 

[Shagz]

I think you can also "defrag" and "validate" your game installs in the Games tab. Just right-click and the options should be there. That might help.

I validated my TF2 install when I was getting those map problems. No idea if there were problems, but it worked after I did that.

 

[Keero]

There's also GCFScape which helps improve performance a lot.

 

[Tek7]

There's also GCFScape which helps improve performance a lot.

Here's a link to GCFScape.

 

[Odale]

So I can use TF2 with out having to go through steam?

 

[Keero]

Nope. Whenever I exited from Steam when I had TF2 running, everything went screwy. The servers didn't show up, I couldn't fire, and everyone lagged in place. It's practically chained to Steam for the account stuff. It will always use Steam for gameplay. You CAN play it in offline mode I think, but that won't help much.