orange August 23, 2008 Share orange Member August 23, 2008 Hi all, I took a couple months off for musical tours and a death in the family. It's been nice to see everyone again, a real pleasure. Some of you may have noticed that I'm getting kicked every couple minutes. I get a "No VAC Connection" or "Client Timed Out" error , and I guess it says no steam logon on the server after I leave. What should I do? I don't use or uninstalled all the flagged programs I saw on steam's do not use list. I have been dealing with the whole steam help ticket thing for months now and nothing seems to work . Any ideas? It sucks to have bought HL2 and Source and the Orange box and not be able to use any of it. BTW, it happens just as much with TF2. Any suggestions would be awesome, on the up-shot, I've been doing A LOT more reading Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorgmaN August 23, 2008 Share NorgmaN Member August 23, 2008 (edited) Try deleting your clientregistry.blob in C:\Program Files\Steam folder. If that doesn't work it may be your connection to the interweb. I'd start w/ updating mobo drivers (nic card drivers if you use a nic). Then make sure your windows is up to date, DO NOT USE SP3 it is C***. Then I would check and make sure you have a stable connection to a stream of some sort, or a upload/download tester. And if you are using any sort of special firewall other then windows or a peer blocker, I would turn that off. Edited August 23, 2008 by NorgmaN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZeroDamage August 23, 2008 Share ZeroDamage Member August 23, 2008 Make sure you disable Peer Guarding if you have it running. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demonic Plague August 23, 2008 Share Demonic Plague Member August 23, 2008 In addition to removing the ClientRegistry.blob you can also try removing Steam.dll and SteamUI.dll. This will force an update from steam and a redownload of some critical files. You can also try looking in the steam window under your games, right click cs:s, properties, local files, verify integrity of game cache... or check to see if the game files need to be defragmented. Good luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glgl August 26, 2008 Share glgl Member August 26, 2008 Why do you say SP3 is bad Norg? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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