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So I figured out what was wrong, and I'm still laughing at the roundheads at
Sierra/Valve for allowing this to happen. I installed the game, went to
play it, and, as I said, nothing. So I read and read and read -- newsgroup
posts, forums, even the sierra support page (which by the way, doesn't have
squat about this infamous error message). Eventually, something hinted at
the fact that there is a seperate program called "Steam" that I needed to
have installed. Well, it wasn't installed. Or, it was only partially
installed. So, I downloaded it from steampowered.com, and low and behold, I
got past the first problem, and stumbled onto a second problem! This time,
I got an error message about the steam.dll not having some entry point. So,
luckily, since I'm a SW developer, I knew that I either had a corrupt, or
out of date, DLL. So I unistalled Steam and reinstalled it. This time it
worked! Well, kindof. It brought up this "buy these games" screen, and it
had a button to register my version of HL2. Cool, I thought, I'm almost
there. Guess again. I went to enter my S/N, and I was told that I need to
first install the retail version of HL2. WHA? Huh? WTF??? I've already
installed it like 3 times, and I have the bruise on my forehead to prove it!
Ok ok ok. I'll uninstall the damn thing and reinstall it. So I did, and
about 40 minutes later, I finally got to the slow loading screen, and away I
went. What a piece of junk. Sure the game's pretty and sounds good and
Oooh, I can pick things up and throw them -- revolutionary! But besides
that, this game is the "Gigli" of computer games.
Way to go Valve. Good job. Absolutely incredulous.
Thank goodness I'm a SW developer, otherwise I'd still be installing,
uninstalling, beating my head on the table, calling support numbers that are
only open M-F 8-5, hoping someone will pick up anyway. No wonder people
hate computers. If it isn't spyware, its these installations that have no
notion of "user experience".
DCH
"David C Henkemeyer" <nobody@goingnowherefast.net> wrote in message
news:E%dUd.46067$uc.2132@trnddc08...
> From the little I've read so far, it seems a lot of people have had this
> issue. WTF? I installed the game, went to run it, and RIGHT AWAY I get
> "Cannot connect to Steam Network". No delay at all. How am I supposed to
> troubleshoot this? I already bypassed my Router and I'm going straight
> into
> my ISP (Ok, so I still have a wireless connection to my router, but the
> router is in hub mode, so there's no NAT translation going on). Could it
> be
> my wireless link? Why would this be the only game to have issues with my
> wireless link?
>
> Please help. Thanks in advance!
>
> David
>
>
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