ZOMFG! How I hate Steam!

eliseu gouveia

So, I bought Fear 2 on amazon.uk the other day.
Installed and played 2 minutes before getting back to work.
"- Nice game, I´m sure I´ll have lots of fun once I find me some time to play it."
Life goes on.

Yesterday, my PC´s power supply fried.
I took it to the shop, they replaced it, installed a new DVD drive and just for kicks, installed a new RAM stick for a whammy 4gig total.
(Or so it should be since tech guy tells me Win X 32 bit will only recognise 3.3gigs.
No prob, I´ll wait for Win7 64 bits.)
I arrive at home, it´s hot and I´ve already wasted the whole day back and forth with the computer under my arm, why not have some fun?

I put the Fear 2 DVD in the tray, click the steam icon on the desktop.... nothing happens.
I click and click and click... nothing.
Maybe conputer hasn´t recovered yet, lots of changes... I restart the computer.... Steam has problems shutting down.
Reboot.
I go for the steam icon again. And again. And again. Nothing.
I go to my computer and try to acces the Fear 2 dvbd directly, play from there.... nothing as well. It asks me the language, I choose english, next options windows I choose "Play Fear 2".... nothing.

After 3 or 4 attempts like this (with steam having shutdown problems throughout), I decide to get that f$%#r out of my computer.
I uninstall Steam.
i try to uninstall Fear 2. Pproblem. "Steam is already running".
WTF!
How can it still be running, I just uninstalled the damn thing.
Fear 2 icon disappears, so I imagine it unistalled itself somehow.
I restart the computer.
Shutdown problem, Steam has problems turning off.
WTF! I uninstalled the damn thing, how can it still be there in my computer giving me a hard time?

I decide to reinstall the whole thing again.
I paid for the damn thing, might as well find out what´s wrong with it before throwing it out the window.
Problem again, Steam bla-bla-bla.
Arrgh!

I just wanted to play a game.

<- curls into fetal position, sobbing

Has anyone else have to face this type of misery?

capable heart

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tofu

Nope, Steam works just great.

DudBolt

Have you tried closing the process in task manager?

slurpeepoop

If you had posted this 2-3 years ago, I, along with many others, would be right there with you, shaking our fists angrily at the sky in a threatening manner.

Delete your steam.dll. That should do it.

elliotw2

Another thing you should know, is that if you have a decent graphic card, you can have at most 2.5GB of RAM under 32-bit Windows. In fact, it's been shown that having more than this can cause major problems with your computer and it's stability. Try removing the new RAM, and making sure that everything is connected solidly.