(Insert Curse Word) Steam

**gaelic cowboy** · 03-20-2011, 17:24

Originally Posted by Beskar

You just put the disk in then click install?

Originally Posted by Monk

Seriously. I've bought a number of Steam games on disk and they installed from the disk just fine. l4d2 and Civ 5 worked just fine out of box in that manner.

no steam was downloading it over the internet connection and there was no obvious way to stop it took about 3 or 4 goes before I got it off the disk really annoyed me to start.

**Kekvit Irae** · 03-20-2011, 23:14

Originally Posted by gaelic cowboy

no steam was downloading it over the internet connection and there was no obvious way to stop it took about 3 or 4 goes before I got it off the disk really annoyed me to start.

You mean you didn't know about the miracles of "right-clicking"? Are you a Mac user?

Joking aside, if it auto-downloads, you can right-click the game in the Steam Library list and choose Pause Download and then Delete Local Content.

**gaelic cowboy** · 03-20-2011, 23:31

Originally Posted by Kekvit Irae

You mean you didn't know about the miracles of "right-clicking"? Are you a Mac user?

Joking aside, if it auto-downloads, you can right-click the game in the Steam Library list and choose Pause Download and then Delete Local Content.

And does Steam offer that info at any time when you obtain the program for the first time?? thats the problem I had at the start when I loaded my first game on to it.

**Kekvit Irae** · 03-21-2011, 08:32

Originally Posted by gaelic cowboy

And does Steam offer that info at any time when you obtain the program for the first time?? thats the problem I had at the start when I loaded my first game on to it.

Google. First hit gives the exact same answer I gave. Didn't even take me more than ten seconds. Considering E:TW is 15000 mb, you save more bandwidth by doing a Google search than trying to get an answer from Steam.

**aimlesswanderer** · 03-22-2011, 10:58

It's alot better than it used to be, but I am still unhappy about renting the games that I have allegedly bought. Needing to have it running to play my games bugs me.

**Motep** · 03-24-2011, 01:07

Originally Posted by aimlesswanderer

It's alot better than it used to be, but I am still unhappy about renting the games that I have allegedly bought. Needing to have it running to play my games bugs me.

It is why I will never steam. Own or bust, IMO

**aimlesswanderer** · 03-25-2011, 09:14

OK, so I get home from work, and try to start up STW2, but now there is a steam error, and it tells me that "This game is currently unavailable. Please try again at a later time"!!

!(&*^$!&*(!#(&$ so I can't play the game I supposedly bought because steam is having problems??? Even in offline mode. Nothing is downloading, steam is up to date, ah sheet.