Worse gaming day ever today...

I think I hate Steam... I tried to play The Scourge Project 1 and 2. I get frustrated because I'm in some facility and I can't find a way out. The enemies are on a counter so they keep coming back and shooting with impeccable aim. I look on the screen and realize there is no map. I had it with that - come back later.

I try to play GTA: SA - another Steam install. It won't start. Steam support is useless. But I've been tryingto get that fixed for a while, no surprise.

I try to play GTAIV - Steam again. Stupid game stops responding at the beginning, right when the car stops at Roman's place. Everything is still going on - just can't get out of the freaking car! I go to steam support - have to sign up for another account just for that. I'm waiting on a useless answer. I try the forums - have to sign in to post. Guess what - I CANT SIGN IN - it keeps saying my user info is invalid. I posted about it here, in the GTAIV forum - no response.

I was going to play Stalker instead, should have followed my first thought. What a sucky game day.

Sounds like problems with the actual games rather than Steam itself. Iantheone

Try googling or searching the support forums on steam and the game's own forums, someone else has probably had the same issues you have and their questions already answered.

[QUOTE="Iantheone"]Sounds like problems with the actual games rather than Steam itself. warmaster670

Try googling or searching the support forums on steam and the game's own forums, someone else has probably had the same issues you have and their questions already answered.

Montaya

[QUOTE="warmaster670"]

[QUOTE="Iantheone"]Sounds like problems with the actual games rather than Steam itself. magusat999

[QUOTE="warmaster670"]

[QUOTE="Iantheone"]Sounds like problems with the actual games rather than Steam itself. magusat999

Doesnt matter that you used steam, steam doesnt know anything about teh code to the game, for issues with games themselves you need to contact the devs, if it was actually a problem steam was causing you would contact them.

The only thing you mentioned that even sounds like it could remotely be steam related is SA not starting, and thats likely your OS, which has nothing to do with steam but again with rockstar.

I'll say it again just in case, it's not steams responsibility to customer service other peoples games, not that they even could since they didnt make it.

[QUOTE="warmaster670"]

[QUOTE="Iantheone"]Sounds like problems with the actual games rather than Steam itself. magusat999

You can Google all you want - there will be no fix found for GTA:SA will not work on Windows 7 - try it, I did... you get NOTHING BUT COMPLAINTS and NO SOLUTIONS.magusat999

I have all the GTA's on the PC downloaded via steam and all of them work in Windows 7 64bit, the only thing I have to do is change the affinity so that they only run on one core of my quadcore (for some reason the mouse does not respond in VC and SA if you have the game running on multiple cores). I didin't need to do anything fancy to get them up and running either. So I am not sure what is going on with other people that can't get gta sa running on their win 7 setup.

At an rate it is a bit much to blame steam for games not working, I have bought one or two games from Impulse and they don't work but I don't blame Impulse. The games the Op listed have problems working no matter how you bought them for a starters GTA SA is an old game using old tech and it is hit and miss as to whether it works on any machine. The less said about GTA 4 the better that is a mess on pretty much every machine regardless of whether you own the retail copy or the steam copy (I have both retail and steam copies of the game).

kinda has been for me too for some reason i have been getting pings of 500+ wtf :( megapikachu101

I hate when people say this and what the OP said, STEAM does not host the servers, in matter of fact the only thing steam related can be VAC and checks if you actually own the game when you join the server.

At OP, So you hate steam because you can't beat some enemies in a game, can't start a game (Did you even try starting the exe for itself?) And you having trouble with a game which seems to be working fine for everyone else.

Derp.

Dont worry its nothing compared to when i installed STALKER and i played it for about 15 minutes yeah, It felt like i was playing a bad mod.AiurProtoss

For GTA SA, try deleting the file "gta_sa set" That worked for me when I was having that problem.