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Steam.

Steam is made of win and awesome. I have most of my favorite games on Steam, allowing me unlimited access to them from any computer that has an internet connection. Oh noes! A disc got a scratch! Oh wait, I don't need the discs... ever... Hmm, perhaps I want to play a new game instead. I know, I can just buy one instantly, download it within 30 minutes (usually) and play it instantly...

Nothing wrong with Steam. Most if not all the problems come from the user or inferior hardware/software or the settings of aforementioned hardware/software.

User error. Please hit any user.

Reinstall the entire thing. Anyway, the amount of Steam problems compared to the amount of Steam users... negligible. I did some checking on the Steam forums, and I found no more problems there than in any other forum tied to a piece of Software. I've got three computers (one stationary that should in theory be able to run Real Life flawlessly) and two laptops. Three different OS (Vista, XP and Linux) and although I don't use Steam on the Debian laptop, I have never had a problem with Steam.

This includes all previous computers as well, since I have this nasty habit of replacing my computer or buying entirely new HDs for them quite often.

To me, this says Steam is a fairly robust piece of software which delivers what it's supposed to. Games online, easily bought downloaded and installed, available from any PC as long as you remember the accountname and password. Sorry Pawke... you're just one of the exceptions that confirm the rule. They exist for everything, and this time Murphy decided your *** looked edible...

How am I doing anything wrong?

I HATE that when people "give me advice" about a situation without even considering that, you know, there might just be a problem with the software, not my rig or my settings or any of that rubbish.

Explain this to me:

I installed the game. I then installed other games. I updated drivers. The Steam games played through ALL of this. Then, I turn on my rig, I go to load it up, then I get the error of D000000000M.

Ok, fine I go, I look up the forums. I find the Steam FAQ on this (always dread to see one that list so many steps and end in blaming network devices, the automatic "Get Out of Jail Free" card for software). I try the first, renaming the "blob". Did it, it worked! Awesome.

So I play on and off every so often for the next month or so. Oh, ****** happened again. Ok, fine, redo the first step, no go. I read on a forum that playing offline for one game can fix it. So I do that. Works! Awesome.

So then I again play on and off for another month or so, then BAM! Again! OK, fine, this time I did the whole delete. Then, again it works! ...

So finally this last time nothing works. I've sent in a support ticket with little hope they will give a **** since they already have my cash in hand and have 0 interest in any more Steam-ing piles of crap from Valve.

TF2 is an excellent FPS game.

I won't even ***** around with the PC version just because of that. I played HF2 on the Xbox then rented Orange box for episode 1 and 2. HAve to say I am waiting for 3 still. Great game but yea that steam seems kinda stupid to have to mess with.

Steams awesome, better than XBL, PSN, and whatever crap the wii has put together.

This probably doesn't help at all, but yesterday I tried to launch L4D from the friend menu (clicking on a friend who was in game and selecting "launch game", and it gave me your message. However, I tried launching the game from the Games menu (by right clicking and selecting launch game) right after and it worked just fine.