My friend and I are trying to solve an issue we're having with Steam. My friend cannot connect to any Steamworks servers (such as Garry's mod/TF2 servers).
We have tried:
- Deleting
ClientRegistry.blob
, - Exiting programs that interfere with steam,
- Adding rules to Firewall
We have posted a ticket on Steam support – they told us to delete everything in the installation directory (/Program Files(x86)/Steam/
) except steam.exe
and steamapps
, but that didn't work either. It made our situation worse, as now my friend cannot even connect to Steam (with an error "Could not Connect to Steam Network"
)
We're all out of ideas, has anyone else come across a similar issue?
Best Answer
It looks like similar users share your frustration for this annoyingly horrible issue:
However, it seems there are several fixes for this that have worked for other users:
Solution A:
Solution B (similar to A, for Win7):
It seems in most of the cases, Steam's problem stems from a bad Wi-fi or network driver. It also doesn't hurt to check your antivirus or any firewalls running. See if disabling all anti-virus software while running Steam should work. Some users have found that their AVs were in fact blocking Steam.