The most epic steam installation galore

THIS IS MADE RIGHT ON A FRESH , UPDATED DRIVER WIN VISTA ULTIMATE 64 bit.

I NEVER HAD THIS PROBLEM BEFORE IN YEARS WITH THE SAME HARDWARE/OS.


what happened:

I pop my EPISODE:ONE dvd in the comp and install it.
I run steam, log in etc..
Click on dm or episode one
"steam has found a problem with your local game files"
gtfo, these are dvd files.


So after trying several things, i decide to uninstall everything and use...
Backed up steam folder with GCF/working files...

Most unstable piece of shit i have ever witnessed, dont even get me started.

So I...Stop fucking around and install games via steam
installed steam,
downloaded game(s),
i click on a game.... game appears to be loading for a second but then, it's not.


It's really retarded as I never had any problem getting my steam games to run and now is the 5th hour i spend trying to figure how what the hell is going on.

I experienced every problems in the world and nothing on steam or on the first 13 google result pages could help me so far, dont ask me to delete the client registry blob or i'll find you and paint your dog pink.



DXDIAG (for the lulz mostly)

Operating System: Windows Vista™ Ultimate (6.0, Build 6001) Service Pack 1 (6001.vistasp1_gdr.090302-1506)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: INTEL_
System Model: DP35DP__
BIOS: Default System BIOS
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9450 @ 2.66GHz (4 CPUs), ~2.7GHz
Memory: 4026MB RAM
Page File: 1349MB used, 6906MB available
Windows Dir: C:\Windows
DirectX Version: DirectX 10
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
DxDiag Version: 6.00.6001.18000 32bit Unicode

i have to leave for the doctors but ill think about this.

2 suggetions i have atm

1-steam never properly installed itself and is continuesly trying to update and/or finish the install. the game cant launch because some of the files it needs are being used.

2-you have a corrupt sector on your HD and/or a bad install of your OS. when i format my HD i never use windows to do it. i use a DOS like program called FDISK. when i format i type format c:/c the "/c" switch tells the program to format the HD but also check for corrupt sectors and mark them as such so basically the OS will skip over them on its install.

like i said, thats all i can think of atm. ill ponder more tho

Is it a retail DVD? I found if Iinstall HL2 from DVD Ihave to install CS:S & HL2 otherwise it comes up with an error not sure if they fixed that bug in the ep1 DVD's.
Is Steam added to execeptions in firewall?

I have both original HL2 and EPISODE:ONE dvd, perfect condition

none of them works

The UAC is disabled, I enabled admin account, tried on that...


I'll try safemode with networking and other things with regedit...