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Squid500
05-14-2010, 09:24 AM
When trying to continue my Portal game download, I get a "validating game files" pop-up that goes away in about 3 seconds, then immediately after that I get a message the says the "Steam servers are too busy to handle your request. Try again in a few minutes". So I do and I get the same message. I've been getting this same message since Wednesday.

When I first downloaded Steam the portal downloaded started no problem, but them Steam itself froze up and I had to restart my computer. After that I haven't been able to get the download to start again.

When looking at my "library" under Portal it just says "download starting" but nothing ever starts. I like it sit for nearly 12 hours yesterday and nothing happened.

I've never had this message before when using the PC version of Steam, so I don't know if the servers really are that busy or if there's some other problem.


If it helps any my specs are:
2.2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
2 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
GeForce 8600M GT 128MB

kleril
05-14-2010, 02:15 PM
It's not a server problem, and the exact same thing is happening to me. I have a brand new i7 MBP, so I doubt it's a problem with hardware.
Scattered users have had this happen to them, 2 suggestions:
Follow the advice on this page if you haven't already:
https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=5483-YUFN-0521
or try a reinstall, if your bandwidth can handle it.