Steam works fine, but Steam Store doesn't load or takes too long.

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Buxaroo Oct 28, 2013 @ 10:43am

As the title says. I can go to my library, discussions, even my profile with ease. But store fails to load half the time or takes forever to load. I have tried rebooting, rebooting steam, clearing out the CLIENT blob file, you name it. Store still has the same problems. Any ideas?

Windows 8 64-bit
Steam parked on SSD drive, games on secondary reg HD.
Virus scanners have Steam on ignore, PeerBlock is turned off.

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eram Oct 28, 2013 @ 10:45am

Does the webpage version work for you at the moment?
http://store.steampowered.com/

Black Blade Oct 28, 2013 @ 10:46am

Well as the community and the Store are not on the same server (i know from the summer sale that the Community work when the store was overloading)
So it may be a store problem maybe overload... of guys waiting for the Halloween sell

Buxaroo Oct 28, 2013 @ 10:48am

Yeah, it loads. But sometimes it doesn't at all. I was just worried that my steam install got screwed up somehow. It's been like this for the last few days.

Oh, and meant to add that Steam has always worked fine before, I'm actually one of the first Steam users there was (HL2 was sooo long ago...).

Last edited by Buxaroo; Oct 28, 2013 @ 10:49am

Black Blade Oct 28, 2013 @ 10:49am

Originally posted by Buxaroo:
Yeah, it loads. But sometimes it doesn't at all. I was just worried that my steam install got screwed up somehow. It's been like this for the last few days.

well when it dose not try to load it in the browser and see what happens

eram Oct 28, 2013 @ 10:51am

Originally posted by Buxaroo:
I'm actually one of the first Steam users there was (HL2 was sooo long ago...).

Not by a long way. :D
http://steamcommunity.com/id/eramv2/badges/1

Last edited by eram; Oct 28, 2013 @ 10:51am

Buxaroo Oct 28, 2013 @ 10:51am

Yeah, its working now. When I click on the link it works. I will try rebooting Steam again and see if it loads the store without clicking the link. Hmm, wonder if maybe spyware has something to do with this, I don't use IE at ALL, Firefox ftw.

Buxaroo Oct 28, 2013 @ 10:53am

Originally posted by eram:
Originally posted by Buxaroo:
I'm actually one of the first Steam users there was (HL2 was sooo long ago...).

Not by a long way. :D
http://steamcommunity.com/id/eramv2/badges/1

Oh hell naaa! I could have sworn I was one of the earlier adopters :confused: Oh well, you got a few months on me :P

eram Oct 28, 2013 @ 10:54am

Originally posted by Buxaroo:
Originally posted by eram:

Not by a long way. :D
http://steamcommunity.com/id/eramv2/badges/1

Oh hell naaa! I could have sworn I was one of the earlier adopters :confused: Oh well, you got a few months on me :P

13 months!

Black Blade Oct 28, 2013 @ 10:55am

Originally posted by eram:
13 months!

Hi you 2 cut it out... i had only 3 Years before i move account and now have nothing XD...

you makeing me jelly...

Last edited by Black Blade; Oct 28, 2013 @ 10:56am

Buxaroo Oct 28, 2013 @ 10:57am

Hmm, store is taking forever to load even when I click on the link. I am trying to think of why its doing this. Going to scan for spyware and see what comes up, I've checked my virus scanner and nothing is out of the ordinary.

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Black Blade Oct 28, 2013 @ 11:06am

Originally posted by Buxaroo:
Hmm, store is taking forever to load even when I click on the link. I am trying to think of why its doing this. Going to scan for spyware and see what comes up, I've checked my virus scanner and nothing is out of the ordinary.

did you open it on the browser and not only from with in steam?
just to be clear

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eram Oct 28, 2013 @ 11:07am

The only time i had this is when my dns was acting up. As a test i changed to open dns and all the functions on steam. (store, community etc) started working fine again.

If its still an issue you could try open dns just as a test. it only takes a few mins to setup.
http://www.opendns.com/

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Buxaroo Oct 28, 2013 @ 11:09am

Yeah, just tried it in both Firefox and Chrome, nothing loads, no errors either. Wonder if it's Comcast having a hissy fit like it did with youtube videos several months ago.

What I would do to have Google fiber come to Atlanta.....

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