Tuffy, not on commission, it just grips my shit when people spout off like "experts" when they quite clearly have no knowledge, experience, or indeed intelligence. Drifter, the fact that the game has run at least once suggests Steam finished the download and has "done its part". Have you considered the issue being more with the game itself? Total War games are usually beasts in terms of computational resource. I have Empire and my PC struggles with it; I've also found it to be a little buggy. Check out the system requirements and the technical FAQs on the game's website (or click on the "Forum" link from the game's library entry in Steam to see community discussions on the subject) to see if other people have the same issue as you.

Originally Posted by BrunoNoMedals

Tuffy, not on commission, it just grips my shit when people spout off like "experts" when they quite clearly have no knowledge, experience, or indeed intelligence. Drifter, the fact that the game has run at least once suggests Steam finished the download and has "done its part". Have you considered the issue being more with the game itself? Total War games are usually beasts in terms of computational resource. I have Empire and my PC struggles with it; I've also found it to be a little buggy. Check out the system requirements and the technical FAQs on the game's website (or click on the "Forum" link from the game's library entry in Steam to see community discussions on the subject) to see if other people have the same issue as you.

just had another thought, if your mediaplayer is in in network sharing mode then half the time it fucks up the networking ability of everythign else, disable it or restart the pc each tiem a program closes, (for some reason one of my pc's always re enables the facking process) its a bit odd but its a problem microshite are aware of they just cant fix it yet it seems

Originally Posted by BrunoNoMedals

Tuffy, not on commission, it just grips my shit when people spout off like "experts" when they quite clearly have no knowledge, experience, or indeed intelligence. Drifter, the fact that the game has run at least once suggests Steam finished the download and has "done its part". Have you considered the issue being more with the game itself? Total War games are usually beasts in terms of computational resource. I have Empire and my PC struggles with it; I've also found it to be a little buggy. Check out the system requirements and the technical FAQs on the game's website (or click on the "Forum" link from the game's library entry in Steam to see community discussions on the subject) to see if other people have the same issue as you.

Far from being an 'expert' on anything to do with Gaming,,I do however have a vast experience on computers ever since the old ZX days,,I am allowed my opinion and I have stated that previously...Thank you for strengthening my views on Steam Users and I wish you all the best in the coming Hacking of Steam....

To be honest i haven't really spanked it but did buy killing floor for about £1 because i saw it on offer. As for steam being shite or hackable. Everyone has an opinion. I have found steam to be the place i buy most of my games for me and the kids. No point in buying a boxed copy. Just pay for download and go. Always up to date and easy to find youre mates for an online mess about. 10 out of 10 i say.

Originally Posted by tuffy52

Far from being an 'expert' on anything to do with Gaming,,I do however have a vast experience on computers ever since the old ZX days,,I am allowed my opinion and I have stated that previously...Thank you for strengthening my views on Steam Users and I wish you all the best in the coming Hacking of Steam....

steam is no ,more or less secure than any other sales sight, everything can be hacked and corrupted, if someone where serious about being able ot cause harm they would go after paypal, going after a games company just annoys customers and is only beneficial if your aim is to promote some other similar provider, oddly when they went after paypal only small scale 3rd party hacking was available largescale wasnt an option due ot the multinational multi data center nature of the true global trading groups.

and funnily enough steam uses paypal for payment collections (there customer center advises people not to use card payments directly with steam) i wonder if perhaps your talking about the account hacking of there forum, which just like every other gaming company has happened at least once in the past and no boudt will do so again, oddly it only happens to companys who dont have a heavy facecrap presence

Originally Posted by tuffy52

Nothing,,,Steam is a total rip off,,and it keeps crashing/hanging.I prefer to buy a 'Game' not just the right to play it.....

When you go to the shops or buying a CD online all you are doing is paying more for exactly the same game because you pay for all the packaging etc. You are also only playing for the right to play the game, you still dont actually own it!

I have been using Steam for years and never had a problem with it, its cheap and convenient, if you want to pay over the top for the same product be my guest.

As for the sales, I got:

Portal 2 + DLC
Solar 2
Rock of Ages
Fallout 3: New Vegas + DLC
All orcs must die + DLC

All for under £30.

I was going to purchase Red Orchestra 2 via Steam until I saw that I could purchase a physical copy of the game from Amazon for literally half the price. Haven't checked out any other games Steam have on sales though.

Originally Posted by Drifter21

My son bought me Empire Total War for Xmas as i like those sort of games, but i can't for the life of me get it to load, it would appear my Steam acct/ steam download isn't working or downloading properly.

I have tried it several times so getting abit frustrated with it. The game loaded once and allowed me to play but next day it just froze and has done this everytime since. Any advice appreciated.

Right-click the Steam icon, select Library, highlight your game and right click. Select Properties, then the Local Files tab and click on Verify integrity of game cache. Follow the instructions and let it do its stuff (may take a while). When complete, restart Steam and run the game.

Games sometimes get out of sync with the local cache after an update and refuse to start.

Originally Posted by Glasgow_Jock

I was going to purchase Red Orchestra 2 via Steam until I saw that I could purchase a physical copy of the game from Amazon for literally half the price. Haven't checked out any other games Steam have on sales though.

the studio or publisher pack sales they hold for christmass can be seriously cheap, a few years ago i got the thc one (there entire collection at the time for 30£) one oif the packs i got this year was the eidos pack(47 quid for what sells elsewhere for 4>600 quid) it gave all the games and dlc's, even if i was buying for my kids it certainly was 10x cheaper than sticking with traditional shopping mediums, then again i used to use d2d before steam and i'm not really intersted in having a few hundred game cases cluttering up the house, when i can have a several thousand games on my storage device..

its one of those horses for courses things though even my kids prefer everything digital (no physical products) since its easier for them to keep clean in there area, and theres no looking for discs when you want to go to the next level....

Summed my christmas up.