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Need help with steam

Discussion in 'Lethal Chat' started by Repulsion Gel, Jul 27, 2012.

  1. Repulsion Gel

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    So recently I wanted to play tf2 but it said "Steam Beta needs to be running to use Find Server". Google told me to restart steam. So i did restart it. It started ti update itself which is fine. It reaches 99% and it quits, disappears, whatevs and whenever I start steam it starts updating and quits at 99%. Again, google told me to disable Avast but that didn't help. Sometimes an error pops up after the update: ERROR: Could not open file vstdlib_s.dll. (the fix that didn't work.)
    Tried running steam as an admin, still didn't work. Tried repairing with the steam installer, but it just gets stuck at the end.
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    I could go and uninstall this whole shit and reinstall steam like that, btu Id on't feel like redownloading all those bytes >.>

    edit: dafuq the repair just finished as I clicked Submit. now steam started updating again, let's se if it works or not...

    edit2: nop, not working
     
  2. 300_Angry_Kittens

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    Tried verifying game cache?

    Tried deleting client registry.blob?

    Tried reinstalling Steam (don't have to delete game data)?

    Tried praying to the Steam gods? :lol:

    Pretty much all my suggestions for fixing general steam crap.

    EDIT: Steam Beta? Have you tried opting back out of the beta?
     
  3. Repulsion Gel

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    nevermind, got it working, in the steam forums they only told me to exclode the steam folder from being observed, but I had to disable the WHOLE avast program to get it working >.>
     
  4. DataStorm

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    I'd guess: turn off sandboxing within avast for steam.... avast sandbox isn't really working well imo. Its nice for applications, but not for games.
     
  5. Panromir

    Panromir "10/10 amazing guy"

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    Avast is also a bad program.
     
  6. DataStorm

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    i don't agree with that. If one is bad, then its AVG. Had several occasions where a PC had AVG, and was still infected after it was installed.
     
  7. Alias

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    AVG is like a condom, its pretty useful and works most of the time, but sometimes it breaks and lets stuff through.
     
  8. JaptorResus

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    Haha really nice metaphor, made my day :lol:
    Im using AVG for basic protection and a weekly scan by Malwarebytes, never had any problems.
    Ah yeah and Netgear for protection as well, but thats external.
     
  9. Pablosky

    Pablosky Potato supreme

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    It's also ineffective when applied afterwards.