New Steam sucks

[Baasha]

Guys,

I tried to play MW2 today via Steam. It updated to the new version (I haven't logged on to steam since early February) and then my system FROZE! :thumbsdown:

I had to 'hard' boot my system and then I get BSOD! WTF!??!

I finally was able to log on via Safe Mode and then I uninstalled Steam and all is well; at least for now.

So, has anyone else had the same experience or is it just me?

And just to be on record, "STEAM SUCKS D!CK!"

Title edited since this is a non-social forum.
-Schadenfroh (AT Mod)

 

[Scouzer]

Steam rocks. Too bad.

 

[Infohawk]

My guess: Op's system is overly-customized and tweaked.

 

[Zenoth]

I'm not a big fan of the new interface, but Steam doesn't suck that's for sure, the GUI maybe isn't good for everyone, obviously, but saying that Steam as a whole simply sucks is a bit exaggerated, and I doubt that their GUI changes would cause a BSOD anyway, maybe you have other issues completely outside of Steam, perhaps related to over-heating, or bad drivers or codecs installations, or unstable over-clocks, or malware or viruses... etc., you might want to verify about that as well.

 

[Dumac]

I like the new Steam, and I don't think that simple layout changes would cause a BSOD.

 

[NoSoup4You]

Steam rocks, the new layout is much nicer looking and overall it kicks ass. The Steam beta, however, caused all sorts of problems for me and I had to revert to the old version. But they seem to have fixed whatever the issue was in the full release, no problems so far.

 

[Tristicus]

I really love Steam. I don't care f I can't resell my games. I can get the whole Rockstar pack for $50 and the Codemasters racing pack for $18 in one weekend. If that isn't awesome I don't know what is.

 

[paperfist]

I don't know if it was BC2 or Steam itself, but it locked up hard while playing and I had to power down to get out of it. Once I rebooted I was greeted to a BSOD saying that I had an unmountable boot volume.

 

[Maximilian]

Yeah new steam sucks, zero functional improvements over old steam, just moving crap about for the sake of it...

 

[TwinsenTacquito]

I agree. Requiring a third party program to play games is lame. Because when it goes down or isn't compatible, you think, "Why does this shit have to be running anyway?!"

 

[Ika]

I agree. Requiring a third party program to play games is lame. Because when it goes down or isn't compatible, you think, "Why does this shit have to be running anyway?!"

1) steam can run in offline mode
2) if it isn't compatible it won't be on steam
3) steam adds a friends list, chatting capabilities, and in-game web browser. i play all my games with a steam overlay now, because it's so awesome.

 

[JujuFish]

And just to be on record, "STEAM SUCKS D!CK!"

I couldn't disagree more.

 

[techforums]

I'm going to have to disagree with you OP

 

[shortylickens]

My guess: Op's system is overly-customized and tweaked.

Good guess. I vote we see a screenshot of his desktop, including Task Manager.

WHOS WITH ME???

 

[Larries]

Just wondering? anybody getting the fatal error: unable to load platform modules error?

I read Steam support page, but both solution don't work (I don't have steam process running, and my registry language is set to english).

 

[motsm]

I can't stand digital distribution, so I in turn dislike Steam for that reason. What turns that dislike into a hate, is the fact it has to constantly upgrade in online mode, and be open at all in offline mode. I don't know of any other DRM as intrusive or as slow either.

With that said, Steam wouldn't be the direct cause of a blue screen, it takes a low level application, driver, or hardware fault to cause a blue screen.

 

[TheVrolok]

I <3 Steam. Oh, and Steam didn't cause a BSOD.

 

[fatpat268]

:hmm: I didn't know Steam could perform fellatio...:hmm:

 

[iahk]

:hmm: I didn't know Steam could perform fellatio...:hmm:

Steam is that amazing.

 

[PrimeSLP]

must be user error

I love the UI works so much better

 

[Baasha]

Wow! Looks like I ruffled a few feathers here!

I reinstalled Steam today and it seems to work fine so I'm not sure what the issue was yesterday(?). My system crashed as soon as I updated so I put two and two together and thought Steam was the culprit.

Anyway, how do I attach a screenshot on AT? It won't let me add attachments so is there another way without uploading a pic to an external server?

I can show you guys my Event Viewer and may be figure out what exactly caused the BSOD??

Regardless, I'm having fun blasting punks in MW2!

 

[digitaldurandal]

1) steam can run in offline mode
2) if it isn't compatible it won't be on steam
3) steam adds a friends list, chatting capabilities, and in-game web browser. i play all my games with a steam overlay now, because it's so awesome.

Lots of games are rendered unplayable when friends list is down though. l4d and l4d2 come to mind.

 

[SpunkyJones]

I like the new GUI.

 

[Gothgar]

mine is fine

 

[Lonyo]

Lots of games are rendered unplayable when friends list is down though. l4d and l4d2 come to mind.

Not to mention games which have had issues caused by changes in Steam.
For instance when the Steam Overlay was first released some games crashed when it was enabled.
And then there are the games which don't work in specific operating systems because Steam has no quality control requirements for releases (although that's outside being compatible with Steam)