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To access the BETA client, you don’t have to download it. Simply follow these steps within your current Steam Client: 1. Select File. 2. Click Settings. 3. Select the Account tab (It should be active by default). 4. Under “Login as a different user”, you will see “Beta Participation”. If it displays “Not Participating,” click “Change”. 5. A dialog box [...]
Read Full Post...January 31, 2009
If you own Gears of War for PC and you still play it (ha ha), then you are getting this error when you launch the game: “You cannot run the game with modified executable code. Please reinstall the game.” Why? Apparently, the certificate for the DRM (Digital Rights Management) for Gears 1 PC version has [...]
Read Full Post...January 26, 2009
It appears that large percentage of the people who own this game have this problem. It is not always the same issues, however. Some people have the main issue where during the cutscenes they just hear static, then it comes back for a second and more static. Some people have that issue plus sound only [...]
Read Full Post...January 24, 2009
Everyone please read this! If you get a friend invite from the steam account “Marc James Ashley,” DO NOT ACCEPT IT! If you accept it, your PC will be infected with a seriously destructive virus that apparently makes your hardrive unbootable forever. Also, if you get this virus by accepting the invite, every person on your [...]
Read Full Post...January 13, 2009
What a pain! A big problem resulting in this is commonly caused by a bad patch. So don’t waste anymore time and download the fix for the issue below: Link to fix: HERE *Password to the archive is nosta12 and you have to open it with WinRAR Please let me know if this works for you or if [...]
Read Full Post...January 12, 2009
This happened to me today while trying to play some Day of Defeat Source. I figured I would just throw something up here letting people who are new to STEAM know what it means. That usually happens when they just updated a game (in my case Day of Defeat Source). The problem is the servers [...]
Read Full Post...January 12, 2009
So far I have talked to a couple people who had this problem. Here are some solutions, and as I come across more I will add them to this post: If you have a game controller (like an xbox controller, racing wheel, or joystick) attached to your computer, try unplugging and then starting up the [...]
Read Full Post...January 8, 2009
I have been researching this for a while, and so far it seems there is no current solution for it. There have been people who managed to get their game working again, and after reading about what they did here is my conclusion: Make sure your computer does meet the minimum requirements listed below: Supported OS: [...]
Read Full Post...January 7, 2009
This is so annoying. A very similar problem existed for COD4 Modern Warfare. Its such a simple fix, but they couldn’t fix it for WaW? Bleh. Anyway, here’s what to do: XP 1. Click Start>Control Panel>Sound 2. Right click on default playback device 3. Select Properties 4. Select the Advanced tab 5. Set the default playback format [...]
Read Full Post...January 4, 2009
So you’re looking into overclocking your Intel powered computer, but aren’t sure how the FSB, system, CPU, and memory speeds all relate? Well here’s some Speed 101 to get you going. Let’s start with the motherboard bus- the bus speed is simply the speed at which information can pass between the CPU and the system memory [...]
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January 31, 2009
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