Archive for December, 2007
Problems with Steam and Recent Update
Monday, December 3rd, 2007 | Technology | 1 Comment
My Steam client has been down the entire weekend thanks to the latest client update from Valve. Unfortunately, Steam is an example of a rather troublesome application. Some of the more annoying problems are:
- Scrollbars in the news & shopping section don’t scroll the content, but only sometimes.
- System tray icon losing count between single and double-clicks.
- It’s slow when responding with the user. You can ask it to open a window and wait quite a while for it to pop up. On a bad day, it could take a minute. I’m not sure what makes a bad day.
- When you ask it to quit, it takes a good minute or two after the the system tray icons have disappeared for it to actually die. (disappear from task list). Also, not sure what makes a bad day.
- When you start it up without a network connection, you have to wait a minute or two for it to become visible.
- Err… ya. If I could start it, I’d be able to list more but these are the obvious ones which are not being fixed.
So I followed their FAQ and uninstalled + reinstalled Steam several times. I knew it wasn’t a problem on my side but, you know, there wasn’t much else I could do and Steam was preventing me from accessing my games; I had some time.
If you’re having trouble with Steam this weekend or thereabouts, I found this post on the official steam forums: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showpost.php?p=7044096&postcount=830