Steam technical support (big problem)

[Sturmwehr]

I've been having this issue with Day of Defeat for a while, but since I wasn't playing it too much it didn't bother me. Now that I'm trying to get back into it, it's really frustrating.

System specs:
Athlon 1.8+
1GB PC-3200 RAM
Sapphire 9600SE 128MB AGP
Windows XP

Here's the lowdown:
Whenever I try to connect to some servers, as soon as I get to the the "Verifying Resources" part of the connection, Steam crashes right back to desktop. Now, it's not the maps that are causing it, since I can join some servers and can't join others using the same map. It's not models because I have all default.

I have tried uninstalling Steam, deleting the folder contents, and reinstalling. I have even tried a new Steam ID (worked even worse, I connected to ever fewer servers). When I did my year reformating, it even still happened then.

I've tried both the fs_lazy_precache 1 and precache 0 recommendations I found from someone else having the same problem (apparently a lot of people are experiencing it). So far, nothing has worked.

So, if anyone could help me out here, I'd really appreciate it.

[Noirceur]

Don't even waste your time with their "ask a question" thing. Does your computer have a good enough PSU for everything you have? I know when I was running a power hungry card on a Dell 250W psu...the card worked great...until it stopped working.

[Sturmwehr]

Don't even waste your time with their "ask a question" thing. Does your computer have a good enough PSU for everything you have? I know when I was running a power hungry card on a Dell 250W psu...the card worked great...until it stopped working.


Yeah. 350W. I have more than enough power.

The strange thing is that Steam used to work fine. It's simply been for the last 6 or so months that this is happening.

[whuh?]

Do you have internet explorer 7? Because many people (including me) couldnt play on servers that had a redirection on the server for faster file downloading. Even if you didnt need to dl the custom content from the redirection, steam would crash because of some IE 7 thingy.

[Sturmwehr]

Do you have internet explorer 7? Because many people (including me) couldnt play on servers that had a redirection on the server for faster file downloading. Even if you didnt need to dl the custom content from the redirection, steam would crash because of some IE 7 thingy.

Yeah, I have IE. But not all the servers I play on have redirection, but Steam does crash once it's Verifying Resources.

So, I'll just assume IE is the problem - what's the solution?

[whuh?]

either DL the latest version (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.mspx)
or rollback to IE 6.

[Sturmwehr]

either DL the latest version (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.mspx)
or rollback to IE 6.

I'll try it, hope it works.

EDIT:
I uninstalled IE and installed the latest version. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work. Still getting Steam crashes at Verifying Resources.

[whuh?]

steam update was released for hl1 engine. Apparently it fixed this.

[Duff Man Rocks]

i had a few problems with steam like this before and i did everything you did and couldn't fix it. then i just got it on my new computer and there aren't any problems.