Steam Disaster

[Larryat24]

I have thousands of hours in on Civ5, and got started on Civ3 a long time ago. It seemed that the Steam utility was the way to go and I have used it and though it was wonderful until I added Gods & Kings. I even like the names: Valve and Steam! There were a number of annoying bugs in G&K [being able to target gifts to a specific city-state resource really appealed to the economist in me, but it makes only a noise and no funds are transferred] but with decades in the tech world, I use workarounds and wait for the next rev... But within a few days I could not even get into Civ5 or Civ5 G&K. It gets through the first "while loading" movie and most of the way through the second and boom it is gone. Same situation every time I tried. Is it a Steam issue or a Civ5 issue??

So, with no fix for my addiction, I used Steam to get the latest version of another game I used to play: Tropico 4. [the title leaves of the rest of the title: Dumb and Dummer]. But there were some annoying screen issues that I assumed were my not reading directions. So I want back to Steam to buy the directions. Steam took my money and said I had the documentation, but when I went to download it, the Steam download page would not load. After several days of trying to download it, I gave us and attempted to get my money back. Joke. Joke on me.
I'm going back to a CD for my next software. It is just like the Investment Community: It is good when it works but when it fails, you are screwed and they've got your money...

 

[JonnyBigBoss]

Wrong forum broski.

 

[Adjuvant]

I don't understand why this is in this forum. Why didn't you look for help/guidance on steam forums or tropico 4 forums

 

[Oddible]

You don't have to buy the documentation dufas, it is linked - or go to the Kalypso website and forums.

As for CivV it sounds like your install got botched, delete it and download again. Do a disk scan and defrag after you delete it.

You're complaining a) in the wrong forum - should at the very least be Steampowered forums, b) about the wrong things - these sound like an issue with your computer more than the games.

Good luck though man, talk to tech support and get your stuff worked out, the game is worth it!

(Can't say whether Tropico is worth it - at first I was psyched that Kalypso were making new versions of some old faves: Patrician, Port Royale, Topico. But they seem to be capitalizing off the franchises with sub-standard crap.

 

[The_J]

Moderator Action: Moved to tech support.
Because we can try to help with the Civ5 related problems. Else that doesn't make sense at all.

@ civ problems: Go to the Civ5 and G&K main directories, and delete the .wmv files in there, then try to start again.