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**Polemists** · 02-25-2009, 15:45

So for those of you who only follow this game Dawn of War 2 (A steam game) is having a litany of patch problems and just problems in general. I don't know if this has to do with steam or the game, but more then likely it's a mixture of the both.

For those who have slow loading times some soultions are posted in tw forum center and I dare not go over every single one for lack of time.

Yet one fundemental problem with steam seems to be that steam packs all the files and takes a long time to unpack them (leading to longer load times then normal games, even in offline mode).

Some people found this to be a soultion, some did not,

has anyone on this forum tried yet to unpack the files themselves as explained here?

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=228075

I'm all for trying things but I'm not that tech savy. Rumor is this will half your load times.

**pevergreen** · 02-26-2009, 14:31

It does generally decrease loading times, but it may not. DoW 2 and its problems are specific to it. It uses games for windows live (same thing xbox uses) for multiplayer so its very slow. And the dev team are not patching well. I did the beta...

**gellis23** · 03-01-2009, 02:26

Hi peeps long time lurker (Shogun) first time poster.

Does anyone know how to get around this rubbish? I have two machines, my lappy (which I am on) and my off-line, no AV, no firewall, games machine.

Are CA seriously telling me that if I pay £35 they expect me to go on line to register? Even the MS nazis don't insist on that.

I can do it but it will be so inconvenient it is unreal.

Regards

**quadalpha** · 03-01-2009, 02:33

Originally Posted by gellis23

Hi peeps long time lurker (Shogun) first time poster.

Does anyone know how to get around this rubbish? I have two machines, my lappy (which I am on) and my off-line, no AV, no firewall, games machine.

Are CA seriously telling me that if I pay £35 they expect me to go on line to register? Even the MS nazis don't insist on that.

I can do it but it will be so inconvenient it is unreal.

Regards

Yes.

**Patricius** · 03-01-2009, 02:37

I can't even get Steam to work at all. Ideas?

**Patricius** · 03-01-2009, 12:03

Originally Posted by Patricius

I can't even get Steam to work at all. Ideas?

When uploading upon starting I get this message: 'Steam.exe(main exception): unable to load library Steam.dll.'

Running it as admin and several repeated efforts seem to have an account up, so okay now.

**A Very Super Market** · 03-01-2009, 02:38

No, you can't get around using steam without breaking the law. To Gellis

Whats wrong with your steam?

**gellis23** · 03-01-2009, 03:13

Like I said. I have two machines.

My lappy is like a fortress, it's got the lot because it is an internet facing machine.

My games machine is totally unprotected. I want greasy speed off it, no problems, no crashes.

I will have to install AV and a firewall, I will have to install a piece of software I neither want nor need (eg Steam). I will register and then take my machine off line (remove AV and FW). I will get nagged by Steam every 5 minutes about updates.

The TW campaign on line will not be very big. I think this is a bad move. It is hacking of fans.

My lappy will just about play the demo, I will have to think about the full game.

Regards

**A Very Super Market** · 03-01-2009, 03:18

Steam won't nag you if there are no updates, but if don't want it to update at all, just set it to offline mode first. Then you can get rid of AV and FW, and just play as usual.