Half-Life 2 - "Out of Steam"

Vanit · August 3rd, 2005

Well I got Half-Life 2 for my birthday and up until a few days ago it was working fine. But then I got this weird steam error and was informed on the official steam forums that the server was messed up and reinstalling should fix the problem. So I reinstalled steam and when I went to update it I once again got the error saying steam was offline. Since I've got an un-updated steam it means I can't even run it to set steam in offline mode... is there a way to fix this?

I gather circumventing steam is illegal, but really this is preventing me from playing it.

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ChankastRules · August 3rd, 2005

Just and idea? if you're not connected to the internet, won't steam automatically start in offline mode? I think it did for me.

Mr. Killjoy · August 3rd, 2005

Steams always do weird stuff when it's supposed to update or DL games, just reinstall it
once again (delete clientregistry.blob first), and retry. You may have to relaunch steam several times to fonish installing it, mostly due to their servers being slow as hell

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salam_azad · August 3rd, 2005

Or get unofficial offline luncher..iam not sure that iam allowed to post link here .....

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Mr. Killjoy · August 3rd, 2005

Accounts that use hacks are banned for life when detected. If you plan to use this kind of tool, make sure you're offline

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Vanit · August 7th, 2005

I found the problem... I had accidently capped Steam with Net Limiter to 5kb/s when it was downloading something I didn't want... I forgot to uncap it so it wasn't fast enough to log in. Yay

.

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Aided Onslaught · August 8th, 2005

You could unplug your comptuer and use the offline thing, can't get detected that way right? But I guess you found the probelm so this wouldn't really matter.

**hushypushy** · August 8th, 2005

wow, Vanit, just wow

well, at least you figured it out...

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Vanit · August 8th, 2005

hushy: ... what are you on about?

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**hushypushy** · August 8th, 2005

i think it's hilarious when people are like "HOLY **** I HAVE A HUGE PROBLEM HOW DO I WHAT DO I OMG WHAT oh oops one small option....k see ya

"

it reminds me of this one time, i was having problems with MPC, whenever someone would sign on AIM and cause a popup window, my MPC would freak out. when i played PSX games and used OGL2, it would go less than 1 fps. i was using my 6800 and i didnt get why these programs were so slow. i posted it here, and frantically searched for solutions.

in the end, i found out that i had 16x AA on the entire time

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Vanit · August 9th, 2005

Hehe, I hate making stupid mistakes like that. One time I tried setting up a huge network but it all failed... turned out I forgot to turn it on :P.

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Player-X · August 9th, 2005

Murphy's law: Something expensive will fail due to the cheapest part

August 3rd, 2005	#1 (permalink)
Vanit Heretic Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Australia! Posts: 2,761	Half-Life 2 - "Out of Steam" Well I got Half-Life 2 for my birthday and up until a few days ago it was working fine. But then I got this weird steam error and was informed on the official steam forums that the server was messed up and reinstalling should fix the problem. So I reinstalled steam and when I went to update it I once again got the error saying steam was offline. Since I've got an un-updated steam it means I can't even run it to set steam in offline mode... is there a way to fix this? I gather circumventing steam is illegal, but really this is preventing me from playing it. __________________ Click here to download my Sin and Punishment English translation.

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August 3rd, 2005	#2 (permalink)
ChankastRules NextGenerationGaymulation Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Sweden ( Proud Game Developer ) Posts: 2,771	Just and idea? if you're not connected to the internet, won't steam automatically start in offline mode? I think it did for me.

August 3rd, 2005	#3 (permalink)
Mr. Killjoy Translator Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Somewhere I don't belong (La Rochelle, France) Posts: 7,799	Steams always do weird stuff when it's supposed to update or DL games, just reinstall it once again (delete clientregistry.blob first), and retry. You may have to relaunch steam several times to fonish installing it, mostly due to their servers being slow as hell __________________ Leader of "The Pessimists' Club" CPU: Core 2 Q6600@3GHz - RAM: 4GB DDR2 (Corsair PC6400) VGA: (Frying) GF8800GTS 512MB - Monitor: H233H 23" 1920x1080 Mobo: Gigabyte EP35C-DS3R - PSU: Antec NeoPower Blue 650w 24Mb/1Mb ADSL - Windows 7 Ultimate --------------------------------------------- All ePSXe plugins up-to-date http://mrkilljoy.deviantart.com/

August 3rd, 2005	#4 (permalink)
salam_azad Useful Idiot Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: moon Posts: 333	Or get unofficial offline luncher..iam not sure that iam allowed to post link here ..... __________________ http://theorionproject.org

August 3rd, 2005	#5 (permalink)
Mr. Killjoy Translator Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Somewhere I don't belong (La Rochelle, France) Posts: 7,799	Accounts that use hacks are banned for life when detected. If you plan to use this kind of tool, make sure you're offline __________________ Leader of "The Pessimists' Club" CPU: Core 2 Q6600@3GHz - RAM: 4GB DDR2 (Corsair PC6400) VGA: (Frying) GF8800GTS 512MB - Monitor: H233H 23" 1920x1080 Mobo: Gigabyte EP35C-DS3R - PSU: Antec NeoPower Blue 650w 24Mb/1Mb ADSL - Windows 7 Ultimate --------------------------------------------- All ePSXe plugins up-to-date http://mrkilljoy.deviantart.com/

August 7th, 2005	#6 (permalink)
Vanit Heretic Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Australia! Posts: 2,761	I found the problem... I had accidently capped Steam with Net Limiter to 5kb/s when it was downloading something I didn't want... I forgot to uncap it so it wasn't fast enough to log in. Yay . __________________ Click here to download my Sin and Punishment English translation.

August 8th, 2005	#7 (permalink)
Aided Onslaught Ocean Soul Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Charleston, S.C. Posts: 1,389	You could unplug your comptuer and use the offline thing, can't get detected that way right? But I guess you found the probelm so this wouldn't really matter.

August 8th, 2005	#8 (permalink)
hushypushy the only one you've ever SEEN Join Date: May 2003 Location: San Francisco Posts: 21,978	wow, Vanit, just wow well, at least you figured it out... __________________ Dedicated to mediocrity and repetition since 1994.

August 8th, 2005	#9 (permalink)
Vanit Heretic Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Australia! Posts: 2,761	hushy: ... what are you on about? __________________ Click here to download my Sin and Punishment English translation.

August 8th, 2005	#10 (permalink)
hushypushy the only one you've ever SEEN Join Date: May 2003 Location: San Francisco Posts: 21,978	i think it's hilarious when people are like "HOLY **** I HAVE A HUGE PROBLEM HOW DO I WHAT DO I OMG WHAT oh oops one small option....k see ya " it reminds me of this one time, i was having problems with MPC, whenever someone would sign on AIM and cause a popup window, my MPC would freak out. when i played PSX games and used OGL2, it would go less than 1 fps. i was using my 6800 and i didnt get why these programs were so slow. i posted it here, and frantically searched for solutions. in the end, i found out that i had 16x AA on the entire time __________________ Dedicated to mediocrity and repetition since 1994.

August 9th, 2005	#11 (permalink)
Vanit Heretic Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Australia! Posts: 2,761	Hehe, I hate making stupid mistakes like that. One time I tried setting up a huge network but it all failed... turned out I forgot to turn it on :P. __________________ Click here to download my Sin and Punishment English translation.

August 9th, 2005	#12 (permalink)
Player-X Banned Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: From Kuching in Malaysia now stuck in Houston Texas Posts: 9,117	Murphy's law: Something expensive will fail due to the cheapest part