4 ms·
"The Steam servers are currently too busy to handle your request. Please try again in a few minutes"
by DTrejo 16y ago
"The Steam servers are currently too busy to handle your request. Please try again in a few minutes"
- MikeCapone 16y agoI don't even get that, just a blank screen :( edit: It seems to be working now. I think I needed to go verify my email first. If you are also a new Steam user trying to download portal, go check your inbox first.
- adriand 16y agoI've got the blank screen too, on a Mac. Verifying my email didn't help.
- MikeCapone 16y agoSteam is being a huge pain so far. I was downloading portal and it crashed. I relaunched it but it didn't resume downloading, yet I couldn't play the game, and didn't find a way to restart the download. Ended up deleting the whole thing and I'm now trying again from the start... sigh edit: Great, I re-installed but it still lists Portal in my "library", and I don't see any way to re-download it or delete it or anything. This sucks.
- aperiodic 16y agoDid you try cleaning out the local game cache files in ~/Documents/Steam Content/? Also, if you right-click on the game in your Library, and then select "Properties," there's a "Local Files" tab which lets you delete the local cache, and verify that everything's there. Hopefully one of those will make it realize the download didn't finish.
- MikeCapone 16y agoI'm on a Mac, so this doesn't quite applies. But thanks anyway. If someone else on a Mac had the same problem, I'd love some help. Thanks. Update: Okay, somehow my download resumed from where it crashed last time. Not sure what I did; i think their servers are just really slow, and if you keep trying, at some point it will work. I think that what I did is go to "library", then went to Portal (my only game), and the "downloading" thing on the left ended up connecting after a long time. Then I could click on the downloading progress bar on the bottom and I can see the download speed. HOpefully it'll work this time.
- aperiodic 16y agoI'm on a Mac, too. ~/Documents/Steam Content/ is where Steam dumps all its content on a Mac. The "Properties" option is in the context menu when you right-click on Portal in your games list in the Steam client, and that brings up another Steam box that lets you verify the local game cache. I wasn't referring to the Windows Explorer "Properties" option (which I think you thought I was referring to).
- MikeCapone 16y agoI'm sorry, I think I read what you wrote too fast because I thought I recognized a windows path at a glance. Thanks for the tip!
- fairlyodd 16y agoAAh! Thank you!