Steam is a Windows, Linux and Mac OS X social platform for the digital distribution of games.
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Can I throw away contents of my Steam Inventory?
I have a number of items in my Steam inventory that are never going to get used; for example, some AirMech 2 "gifts" that are marked as NO LONGER VALID. Is there some way to get rid of them so I ...
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How many levels are there for steam trading card badges?
With the new Steam Trading Cards, I decided to craft the badge for CS:GO. I got this:
I then noticed that this is only a level 1 badge, and there was a level 2 badge to get. So I crafted it too:
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Prevent kids from “accidentally” making purchases in Steam
Kids play with the gaming computer that has a Steam acct always logged in.
I'm worried about them "accidentally" purchasing something in the store, is there way to require a password to complete a ...
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How many cards can I collect per day?
I have been playing Portal 2 from the start in order to collect trading cards in the Steam trading card beta. I have collected four cards so far, and when I look at my badge process it gives an ...
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Do I collect steam trading cards in HL2: Episode 2 or only in the base HL2?
I played HL2: Episode 2 for about an hour but no steam trading card dropped. Do I have to play the base HL2 to get cards or are they also dropping in Episode 2?
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“One registered product” on Steam?
On the Steam badges, at the bottom it says "For having at least one product registered" but there's no "View Details" or anything to click on. It's greyed out, which sounds like I don't have this ...
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Steam Error Mac
My Steam on my mac is giving me the error *SteamStartEngine(0xbfb334f0) failed with error 1: CMultiFieldBlob(pSerialized) : Bad field -extends past end of blob. I have tried the terminal command, ...
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Is there a fix for the endless “Scanning for Steam games updates.”?
On trying to fire up any game in Steam, or Activate a Product on Steam, a popup will display stating "Scanning for Steam games updates.", and just sit there. It never does anything, and only offers a ...
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Steam again starting game download after installing Rage
I bought Rage from an online store yesterday. I activated the game and its DLCs (Anarchy Edition and Sewer Missions). After activation the game showed the popup:
Game already registered.
And ...
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How do I upgrade a game badge, aka do cards drop again once I have a badge?
Steam now has trading-cards which can be crafted into badges and other marketable items. That link states that trading-cards can be crafted into badges, and that
If you gather another complete ...
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Can I have more than one of the same trading card?
Steam now has trading cards. In order to get them, you're supposed to play specific games (currently there are only 6 games supported, but they've said more will come).
However, it's only possible ...
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How do I pick up trading cards?
Steam now has trading cards. In order to get them, you're supposed to play specific games (currently there are only 6 games supported, but they've said more will come).
However, I can't figure out ...
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Can you play Half-Life 2 without steam?
Is there an alternative to Steam? I would like to play Half-Life 2 legally, but I am not willing to install Steam (again). I looked at Steam alternatives, but non of them are offering Half-Life 2. ...
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Do I need to have Steam for Wolfenstein (2009) single player?
I am thinking about buying Wolfenstein (2009), but on the packaging I noticed that it says something about Steam. Do I also need Steam for single player mode? Basically I want to avoid Steam for ...
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Persistent group chat or some other form of reliable 2-way communication with a group
Playing with friends is the best. Individually messaging 20 people when you're looking for a game is the worst. Is there a way to make a persistent group chat (you rejoin it after restarting Steam) or ...
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Can I run multiple copies of Terraria if I bought it on Steam?
I play Terraria a bit with my brother and friends and I am always the one with the server, but sometimes while I am playing it gets a bit boring and I want to play on my own world and character (I do ...
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How can I customise the 'Exit' menu in Big Picture mode?
I am in the process of building myself a Steam Box - a PC running Steam that is going to be plugged into my TV without a keyboard and mouse plugged into it. I am looking at running Steam instead of ...
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How can I make Steam launch in Big Picture mode?
I am in the process of building myself a Steam Box - a PC running Windows 8 and Steam that is going to be plugged into my TV without a keyboard and mouse attached. The only form of input plugged into ...
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Can I add Defiance to my Steam account?
I've purchased Defiance, and I'm familiar with adding external games to Steam. My question is, can I add Defiance to my Steam account where I would be able to download it from Steam directly? I did ...
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Overlord: Raising Hell does not start from Steam
When clicking "play" on Overlord: Raising Hell in the Steam library the game won't run.
When you choose "Play Overlord Raising Hell", the game does not start
and exits without an error.
When you ...
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How do I adjust Steam chat font sizes?
It seems that a recent Steam update increased font size in chat to 'improve readability'. Unfortunately, this only changed the font size in the in the conversation area and nowhere else in the chat ...
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Counter-Strike Global Offensive stuck on updating at 100 percent
My CS:GO gets stuck on 100 percent when its updating. When I click on the game to play it pops up the box that shows the estimated amount of wait time till I can play the game. The estimated amount of ...
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Can you set a queue for games being installing on Steam?
So, I just bought a bunch of games on Steam. Of course, none of them are installed.
Steam, by default, installs one game at a time. If there is a game not being installed, it will eventually be ...
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Is there a way to bypass the Steam region lock?
I want to check out a game but when I view it from Steam, it says:
"This item is currently unavailable in your region"
Is there a way to go around this limitation? Not simply by using a proxy to ...
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unable to launch steam
I just bought a game using steam, and I followed all instructions to install the game and steam. When I launch the game I always get the message that the game cannot be started. I checked the list of ...
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Can you make steam not take dumps when Dota 2 crashes?
Everytime Dota 2 crashes steam makes memory dumps and they're placed in the C:\Program Files\Steam\dumps.
Now my problem is that my HDD space is pretty low now, and each "dump" file is a bit over 1 ...
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Bind installed team fortress 2 game to steam [duplicate]
I've downloaded and installed tf2 from the internet, but it couldn't connect to online servers. So I've also installed steam after that.
Now when I want to play tf2 from inside the steam, it doesn't ...
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How accurate are the Steam playtimes?
Within Steam you can look at how much playtime you have for each game. It says that I have 73 hours of playtime for Anno 2070.
I would have guessed that I would have somewhere around 10.
Could this ...
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Can you activate Don't Starve purchased from GOG on Steam?
Is it possible to activate the game Don't Starve bought from gog.com in a Steam account or they are separate serial keys?
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How do I re-add a game to Steam? I have the data files and the ncf file? [duplicate]
Before I realised Steam had a backup option, I tried to manually back up my games.
For my game I have the NCF file, and the Game data (the folder from Steam/steamapps/common).
I have done the ...
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How can I get Steam to recognise Black Mesa when installed on another partition?
I just downloaded Black Mesa, and when installing it I tried to install it in the Steam folder on another partition instead of the default one in Program Files, in
D:\Steam\SteamApps\sourcemods\BMS
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My friend activity is not showing up whenever I log into Steam [closed]
My friend activity is not showing up whenever I log into Steam, no matter if I refresh it or log on again.
I don't really know why, but I really just want to check my friend activity, but it keeps ...
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Give away duplicate steam game [duplicate]
I know from this question, that giving away already bought games isn't possible in steam. However, I already own a game (Counter Strike in my case), but want to have the other CS games, too. The ...
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Can I get steam redeem key for my Civilization 5 purchase on Apple AppStore? [duplicate]
A few months ago I bought Civilization 5 on AppStore but since then I'm using only Steam for all purchases.
I've noticed that for example on Humble Bundle you can directly download the game or get ...
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What does a friend having their status as Snooze mean?
One of my friends has a status of Snooze. What does this mean?
How is it different to away or busy (apart from it not being available in the list of options)?
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How can I avoid updates if I move my installation of Steam?
I moved my Steam games to another computer, but it still wants to update the games already update on the old computer. Did I miss a file to verify updated games?
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Why won't The Stanley Parable launch from Steam?
So I decided to download The Stanley Parable after seeing it mentioned in an old review video I was watching. I downloaded the zip, extracted it to the steam/steamapps/sourcemods folder, restarted ...
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How do I switch to the new Steam version of Company of Heroes without downloading the entire game again?
I already have Company of Heroes on Steam. Since the game is switching over to Steamworks for its multiplayer component sometime in May, a "New Steam Version" of the game has appeared beside the ...
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Can I skip cutscenes in the Walking Dead?
I'm playing through The Walking Dead again, as it's multiple choice abd I wanted to see where the game would/could take you.
But I have to sit through all of the cutscenes and dialogues. It's driving ...
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Can I send money to my friend's Steam wallet?
I would like to send someone who already has a Steam account a money gift so that he can buy himself some games.
Is this possible? If so, how?
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How can I recover my lost saves?
I accidentally threw my Skyrim save into a folder I can't find.
Is there an easy way to recover it through Steam or something else? Nothing is in the recycle bin, so it's not deleted.
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How to play Terraria without Steam?
I'm trying to play Terraria without initializing Steam but it is not working it displays
Please launch the game from your Steam client
Is there a possible way to do it?.
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How to bind steam client to a different IP address?
So I have 2 network cards, and multiple networks (VPN, etc).
What I want to do is bind steam client to one of my IPs, and bypass my VPN (because lag).
I checked all the steam settings and launching ...
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What games support the ps3 controller on the mac? [closed]
This isn't a question about how to get the ps3 controller to work on the mac. Its assuming you've already done that. (support is build into Mountain Lion, some people just have issues getting it to ...
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Can people playing the original Age of Empires II play online with people who buy it on Steam?
My friend has an original copy of the game and was wondering if he could play online with me if I buy the HD version on Steam.
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How to make sure a steam key I redeem yields me the uncensored, not the German edition?
I want to buy the games offered in the current Humble Weekly Sale. What do I have to do in order to get the uncensored version? In particular, is the country of purchase defined by where the IP I ...
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I want to play the same games on Mac OS X and Windows 7
Here's my current setup. I have both Mac OS X 10.8 and Windows 7 installed on a SSD, and Paragon drivers for each installed on each. (so I can read/write to the other partition from both partitions)
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How can I stop invitation spam?
Occasionally, I receive invitations to join a Steam group from people I've never met, and which are most likely just sock-puppet accounts to begin with. However, 99% of the time, none of my friends ...
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How do I start Steam without it automatically logging in?
When I start Steam it automatically logs into my account.
I want it setup so that when Steam starts next time, it will ask me for my credentials.
I know how to do this the normal way (logging into ...
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Can I report people on Steam for sending inappropriate messages?
How can i report people that are aggressive to me on steam? Someone has been sending me messages that contain offensive language.
