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Steam servers down?

Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2012 4:15 pm
by Austcoop
Is anyone else having trouble accessing Railworks via Steam, or is it just me? I keep getting the message "Could not connect to the steam network". Most irritating.

James

Re: Steam servers down?

Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2012 4:53 pm
by AndyM77
Quick way to check - look at this page http://store.steampowered.com/stats/ if the analogue graph has a massive dip or shows "0" users, then yes Steam is down (rare), if it's showing 5 Million users+ then yes Steam is going to be slow(ish) (Blame Skyrim! )

Otherwise, try restarting the Steam app, have the latest Steam client (older ones get a bit upset at connection time), and / or try a different download region.

Finally blame ISP, some ISP's limit bandwith to Steam at 'Peak hours' and as a consequence Steam fails to work, if this is the case ditch your ISP for a better one.. :wink:

Edit: I've just opened my Steam client and launched Railworks with no problems so Steam is very much working

Re: Steam servers down?

Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2012 5:52 pm
by bpbill
There have been Railworks access problems through Steam today as evidenced by the two other threads.

http://forums.uktrainsim.com/viewtopic. ... 4&t=122097

http://forums.uktrainsim.com/viewtopic. ... 4&t=122102

Re: Steam servers down?

Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2012 6:53 pm
by Austcoop
All sorted now. Good old Steam, as unreliable as ever.