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    steam and bioshock, what the heck?

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by tangent, Aug 21, 2007.

  1. tangent

    tangent Notebook Evangelist

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    I pre ordered bioshock and payed 50 bucks for it. its realeased, but under "my games" it still says its unrealeased! what the heck? is anyone else getting this problem?

    EDIT: Nevermind, if anyone else has this problem, all you have to do is restart steam, it will automaticly unlock the game when it updates.

    EDIT #2: now it has to Download somthing! it says it will take an hour! It was advertised as "play when its realeased"! what is up with the wait? i finished the pre load.
     
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    Fastblack Notebook Consultant

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    try shutting steam down and run it again.
     
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    Joga Notebook Evangelist

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    I tried restarting a few times, but it didn't do anything. About a minute ago I tried restarting again and now it's decrypting the files. Squee! Only a few minutes away from Bioshock goodness. :D :D :D
     
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  4. tangent

    tangent Notebook Evangelist

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    thats what i thought, (i updated it abouve, a restart worked)
    but now it has to download somthing, it says its going to take an hour! WTF, i finished the preload, it said "play as soon as its realeased"! WTF, i want to play now! what the heck is it downloading?
     
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  5. Wu Jen

    Wu Jen Some old nobody

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    I think you should cancel it and tell STEAM you want your money back. How dare THEY make you wait ONE WHOLE HOUR!!!
    WTF!!!111BBBQQQ!!!!111zzzzzzzzzzz
     
    Wu Jen, Aug 21, 2007
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    Joga Notebook Evangelist

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    Same here. It decrypted, but now I'm sitting at 80% downloaded (and on my flaky university connection, getting a blazing fast 30 KB/s cause it's peak hours. :( ). It probably leaves out a few key files (in like the game engine or something) just in case somebody decrypts it beforehand.

    What's the point of having a countdown (down to the second, even!) on Steampowered.com if it takes another three or four hours to actually play the damn thing? I should've just bummed a ride from someone and bought it retail this morning...

    Edit: Solution to the slow download speed (from the Steam forums):

    " If your complaining about slow download speeds just do what I did...

    1) EXIT STEAM
    2) Go to the steam directory and delete clientregistry.blob
    3) Load back up steam and login

    I did this and I was downloading at 1mb just finished and now going to play.    "

    Apparently it's a common solution. I tried it and it works, got my speeds up to ~100 KB/s instead of 30.
     
    Joga, Aug 21, 2007
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