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And more people bought windows. When you think of microsoft what do you think of? Windows. When you think of valve what do you think of? Steam. Jesus christ.

Finray wrote:

Valve = the company who makes the games.
Steam = the program used to play/buy them.

The company works perfectly, the program is riddled with bugs.

Or for me anyway.

That's a bit of an oxymoronic statement; if the company 'worked' perfectly then they wouldn't have created and rolled out a program riddled with bugs . But ok, I get your point. Steam is one of the major projects and 'products' of Valve though- it's a huge source of their revenue and a huge commercial advantage- so you can consider Steam to be an invention and product in their folio that is even more important and time-consuming than the Source-engine games they develop.

Shutdown steam, go to C:\Program Files\Steam, delete clientregistry.blob and reboot steam. No guarantees though.

Flecco wrote:

Fat_Swinub wrote:

And more people bought windows. When you think of microsoft what do you think of? Windows. When you think of valve what do you think of? Steam. Jesus christ.

Actually when I think of Valve I think of Half-Life, CS and TF. I think of Valve's primary products, not the way they deliver them.


Just as when I think of Microsoft, I think of windows, not the box it comes in.

Steam is their cash-cow now though, they make tons more money through the extra-markups they charge on their products, plus the deals they sign with 3rd party publishers and developers to use their distribution platform. Think about it: even when they have 'Sales' on their own game,s e.g. HL, CS, TF, those revenues are intrinsically linked and boosted by the Steam Store's profits. I daresay that Steam is the program/service that has kept Valve at the forefront of PC development-- it's a feat for such a small and centralised development team to stay relevant and to stay influential. Steam has had tons to do with that and has inspired lots of cloneware.

windows + r
"iwmp.exe"
Enter.

I do love Steam. It's so convenient, easy to use etc etc. Downloading games, using Steam to join friends in-game etc. It's great.

But I don't like how completely dependent it is on both their servers and my connection.

Uzique wrote:

Flecco wrote:

Fat_Swinub wrote:

And more people bought windows. When you think of microsoft what do you think of? Windows. When you think of valve what do you think of? Steam. Jesus christ.

Actually when I think of Valve I think of Half-Life, CS and TF. I think of Valve's primary products, not the way they deliver them.


Just as when I think of Microsoft, I think of windows, not the box it comes in.

Steam is their cash-cow now though, they make tons more money through the extra-markups they charge on their products, plus the deals they sign with 3rd party publishers and developers to use their distribution platform. Think about it: even when they have 'Sales' on their own game,s e.g. HL, CS, TF, those revenues are intrinsically linked and boosted by the Steam Store's profits. I daresay that Steam is the program/service that has kept Valve at the forefront of PC development-- it's a feat for such a small and centralised development team to stay relevant and to stay influential. Steam has had tons to do with that and has inspired lots of cloneware.

Their markups are lower than that of most publishers. As far as I know devs make more of a profit off steam sold games than they do on store sold ones. Valve takes 30% (I think), the rest is to the devs/publisher who fix the price. Which is why Activision are such bastards for what they did to Australian CoD4 prices on steam.

I see what you're saying about staying relevant though, they have become a bit of a wildcard. Such a small organisation holding so much influence on the market.

Last edited by Flecco (2009-04-04 17:18:29)

Anywayyyyyy... Problem Persists!

I reinstalled my drivers and it fixed the game. I stopped playing after a while and the problem came back. Faulting application left4dead.exe, version 0.0.0.0, faulting module shaderapidx9.dll, version 0.0.0.0, fault address 0x0002e0d6. I tried a fix I found on the steam forums, didnt work. I tried to reinstall my drivers again after uninstalling them and it didnt fix it this time.

Im stumped

Sisco10 wrote:

Did you reisntall/update directx too?

yes

Sisco10 wrote:

Mutantsteak wrote:

Sisco10 wrote:

Did you reisntall/update directx too?

yes

Do other steam games work for you?

tf2 does

Spidery_Yoda wrote:

Fat_Swinub wrote:

And more people bought windows. When you think of microsoft what do you think of? Windows. When you think of valve what do you think of? Steam. Jesus christ.

Half-Life actually. Then Steam.

Gabe Newell to be honest. Then Steam.

I paid for these fucking games, and now they don't work. Im not reformatting my fucking computer because a game thats supposed to work doesnt.