Post your Steam questions here!

[Vuk]

I see tons of Steam threads popping up, so I thought that it would be good to have one thread in which to post all of them, that way our Steam experts would know just where to go to answer them. I, admittedly, and no Steam expert, I just thought it would be helpful to have one thread to post everything in, that way you can be assured that you will get the quickest answer possible, because this thread will be where all the helpful people with any clue about Steam will be.

[A Very Super Market]

Hmm... can this be stickied? I don't want to see another flood of Steam questions when the full game goes up.

[quadalpha]

Okay, I'll start. How do you go about disabling Steam on the demo? People say that improves performance. I tried running the app from it's own executable, but Steam pops up regardless.

[Wartz]

Okay, I'll start. How do you go about disabling Steam on the demo? People say that improves performance. I tried running the app from it's own executable, but Steam pops up regardless.

Shutting down steam does not improve performance. It is a 9mb (in ram) exe that does nothing except show you when your friends are playing (and you can turn that off too) while you are playing ETW.

Also, ETW cannot be run except from steam.

[pevergreen]

Steam will need to be on, but it does not have to be in "Online Mode"

[Sir Beane]

I'll sticky this in an attempt to curb the inevitable hailstorm of questions once the game goes live . Good idea Vuk .

[hrvojej]

Also, ETW cannot be run except from steam.

Wow. Thanks for the info. I will not buy a game that expect me to install a third-party BS just to play single-player.

Cheers,

[Trapped in Samsara]

Hi

Not a question, just a statement.

I will not buy ETW until I can purchase a disk(s), perform a conventional, malware-free, installation and download and apply any patches, under my own control, in the time-honoured way. If that means I've got to wait a year, so be it. I anticipate it will take that long to sort out all the bugs anyhow. (Remember M2TW and the disgusting treatment paying customers received when it and Kingdoms were released?)

I wish those of you who've dived into ETW the best of luck, I really do, but this TW vet has learned that CA-Sega cannot be trusted.

Until then I'll stick to MTW+XL+Tyberius - which is a fantastic, deeply immersive, and very challenging mod, by the way.

Regards
VGB

[Babblearossa]

Trying to try the demo, I got steam installer

SteamInstall.msi

click that go through dialogue boxes and installs something then get to box

"Steam has been successfully installed. Click the Finish button to exit this installation."
"Steam will now continue installation."

click Finish and get small popup window

Error
Steam.exe (main exception): Unable to load library Steam.dll

the only option given is the [ OK ] button, and it exits.
I've tried it thrice with one reboot and still it's stuck.

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Any help? This is the first time I've ever tried steam, I don't usually have any trouble installing
things, and haven't run into anyhing this unhelpful in a long long time. They do get bonus points
for the unclarity of telling me it's both finished installation and will continue to install, maybe that's
a clue as to what went wrong?

[Babblearossa]

Trying to try the demo, I got steam installer
yadda yadda yadda

Oh, sorry to reply so soon to my own post, maybe it'll save someone trouble

am using Online Armor firewall, for some reason it didn't pop up to learn new rules about
Steam ( it normally does this for new executables ). So I had to click it and put it into
Learning mode while I launched steam. Might have to do that again after demo is installed,
Steam lists these as the associated executables
* steaminstall.exe
* steam.exe
* hl.exe
* hl2.exe
* steamTmp.exe

yay, 5 exceptions with clear names like 'hl.exe'...

[A Very Super Market]

guadalpha:

Did you change your steamID? Because the one you use in the application is the one you use in the webpage.

Babblearossa:

Never mind.

Mr. BEST NAME EVAR:

No, you need to install into steamapps, otherwise it will just tell you to put it in there. 'Sallright, you can still mod things.

[quadalpha]

I'm using the same ID. I've tried logging out of Steam app and logging back in - works fine. I've tried changing my password in the app, also works fine. I've tried logging into Steam webpage while logged out of Steam app, and that doesn't work. Strange, eh?

I'm not too bothered at the moment since I can play and browse the store from the app (just pre-ordered!), but I'm slightly worried if this is indicative of a problem that might crop up in the future.

[A Very Super Market]

You mean logging in to steampowered.com right?

Don't worry about, if you don't use steam as an actual program, then its perfectly fine.

[SirGrotius]

I've never had a problem with Steam, and I don't understand why everyone freaks out about it. If it were my intellectual property, I'd go through an established system such as Steam for distribution.

[ArtillerySmoke]

I have 2 questions:

1) Does Steam auto-update this game? As in, you can't play it unless you have the latest patch installed?

2) What happens if you're in the middle of a campaign and a patch is available? If it's auto downloaded and it dl's during a campaign you have saved, is it save game friendly?

Thanks.

[Sir Beane]

I have 2 questions:

1) Does Steam auto-update this game? As in, you can't play it unless you have the latest patch installed?

2) What happens if you're in the middle of a campaign and a patch is available? If it's auto downloaded and it dl's during a campaign you have saved, is it save game friendly?

Thanks.

1) Yes, but only if you go online while Steam is running.

2) CA would be stupid not to make patches save game friendly, but I can't confirm it.

[ArtillerySmoke]

1) Yes, but only if you go online while Steam is running.

2) CA would be stupid not to make patches save game friendly, but I can't confirm it.

1) I'm always connected to the internet when the PC is on. Right now (computer off, power cord unplugged due to cleaning the room) is the first time I've been offline since I got the PC over a year ago lol.

2) You see what I'm saying though? If the game is auto patched, it HAS to be save game friendly. It would be insanity to have campaigns abandoned left and right due to an oversight.

We'll find out soon enough I guess.

[Sir Beane]

1) I'm always connected to the internet when the PC is on. Right now (computer off, power cord unplugged due to cleaning the room) is the first time I've been offline since I got the PC over a year ago lol.

2) You see what I'm saying though? If the game is auto patched, it HAS to be save game friendly. It would be insanity to have campaigns abandoned left and right due to an oversight.

We'll find out soon enough I guess.

Yeah I can definitely see the problem with the game patching itself in the middle of a campaign. This is such an important issue I'm sure CA have thought about it however .

[jawalla]

has anyone thought of steam coming out with an empire 2? that was by far my favorite game but i wish they could expand it into africa and the german unification all the way up to world war 1

[MiyazakiTenshi]

Hello, I have a windows 7 laptop and today i have purchased and downloaded Star wars Knights of the old republic. for some reason every time i click on it to play it, the game says ''Star wars knights of the old republic has stopped working'' then it checks for a solution as to why it's not working.

But then it came up with changing my screen resolution to '1366 x 768' when that is already my screen resolution. And i have tried restarting my laptop but nothing has changed. Please help.

Thanks, Phillipa.

[Fisherking]

Try posting the problem down in the Hardware and Software area of the Forum.

Someone there may have some things you can try.

[InsaneApache]

I recently lost my internet connection for five days and was therefore was unable to play ETW and NTW. Now I understand why CA did this but it's a bit of a bugger to shell out for two games (upwards of £50) and not be able to play them.

Surely there must be a way to play these games if you have no internet.

I'm not holding my breath though.

nm. After trawling the net I found the answer.

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showt...et-connection-!!!

Typical.

BTW Thanks Monk.

[Dayve]

I have one for Steam.

How much did you pay CA to have them force people to use your pointless spyware infested program to play such an awesome game?

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

Steam doesn't have to autoupdate - somewhere in the options there is a little box that you can uncheck, turning off autoupdates. It works that way for Red Orchestra, at least.

[ArtillerySmoke]

I have one for Steam.

How much did you pay CA to have them force people to use your pointless spyware infested program to play such an awesome game?

What do you think this "spyware" is doing? Watching you while you take a shower?

[A Very Super Market]

Ahem.

There is a word underneath his name

It says Troll

[Dayve]

Ahem.

There is a word underneath his name

It says Troll

That's just there as a joke from an incident that happened on the Medieval 1 forum a year back or so, with a mod who obviously hasn't been laid in a few years and was looking for somebody to take out his frustration on.

Seriously though, i have managed to avoid Steam for so long now because of the general horribleness and the way they conduct business, and now i'm forced to use it to play a game from a series i have been in love with for over 5 years, and i'm angry because it's clear Steam have paid CA to do this, because CA can't give 1 single good reason for going through Steam, just the same ridiculous ones over and over. Achievements, a friends list, software protection, which won't work by the way.

[pevergreen]

Heres a reason:

Its not secuROM.

[Cecil XIX]

How do I get Steam to start in offline mode? Whenever I try it, I get two windows, one on top of the other. The rear one says "This operation cannot be completed when Steam is in offline mode." And the one in front of it says

"Could not connect to Steam Network.
This could be due to a problem with your Internet connection, or with the
Steam network. Please visit www.steampowered.com for more info."

[KarlXII]

I'm having problems with my STeam account. It's gone! It's almost like it evaporated!

(Grabbin' the coat)