Steam - intermittent game access.

[mcgirt]

Hi,

I downloaded portal the other day, as it was free, and played a few levels. While on Steam I decided to install Counter-Strike:Source as I used to love playing it.

It installed OK but I've been having lots of trouble getting onto servers. When I try to search for servers it sometimes only shows about 12 of them and when I try to connect it say 'server not responding', then waits and tries to connect before failing 'after 4 attempts'. If I refresh again it will display lots of servers (sometimes) but still tells me 'server not responding' when I try to join a game.

I've checked online for answers and opened the recommended ports on my router but I still only occasionally get on to a server. I thought it was my firewall but all looked OK as far as the settings go, I even tried it with my firewall switched off.

Has anyone had this or a similar problem or know how to fix it? It's really annoying as the games of CS I've played have been great and now I really want to play it, typical!

I've tried uninstalling Steam and CS but this has made no difference. I'm running Comodo FW and a Net-Gear router.

Cheers.

 

[Messa]

Just for the sake of testing put your PC into the DMZ setting in your routers config page.

This will allow everything through so we can see if its a router or PC issue.

 

[mcgirt]

Thanks for the reply Messa.

I tried removing my router from the equation and un-installing the firewall, still no difference. I decided, due the time I'd spent messing about already, to just re-install windows. I've not had time to re-install steam yet but I should get round to it this evening. All I can say is it better bloody work now!

A friend told me today he had problem similar to this and had to copy over some steam files to resolve it. As I've already re-install windows I'm hoping I won't have to do that.

Cheers, rep added.

 

[ekwat]

Do a search on the Steam forums. They are usually pretty good for things like this.

Only thing I would suggest is turning off peerguardian or programs like that ( if you use them ).