Got a questions about Steam

[kgb424]

I found my stash of used pc games

And tried to install Half-life 2 and chapters 1 and 2

I have not played them in years and the Steam bullshit

Keeps telling me they are all duplicate keys and that they have been already

installed on a Steam account, and I need to recover the account

But when I try to recover account profiles, it only finds my current account profile

and aborts the install process

is there away that Steam can completely wipe my account clean, ?? and can I get a new email address ??

So I can reload my used games, I don't want to have to buy new copies

of the games I want to play, and you have to have a Steam account for a lot of games too work

Can I get another e-mail address and start a whole new account ??

would that let me re-load played games

And how due send Steam a e-mail, I can't find a link anywhere

the bullshit just keeps looping back around and never shows a e-mail address or the support website info

So I can not contact them at all

They are only games Steam will allow me to play is Spintires and Metro 2033

That's it everything else does the duplicate key bullshit

 

[tuanies]

That means the keys were already redeemed - you can only redeem the key one time in Steam. Then it becomes part of your account and the key is invalid for anyone else. Did you let someone borrow the game or have a different older email?

 

[kgb424]

I have a lot of games, I have all of my FarCry games on Ubisoft and a bunch of Need for Speeds on Origin, on Steam at one time I had all of my Half-life games, both Doom 3D games and Return to Castle Wolfenstein and plus a bunch I'm forgetting

All of the games in Steam gone except Spintires and Metro 2033 and if you try to install any of them, I get then duplicate key thing

I tried to recover Steam accounts and only comes up with the current account, I also tried to recover Hotmail accounts and they only find my current e-mail address

So I need Steam to completely delete my account or get another separate email address and see I can create a new account in Steam and see if can re-load my games

 

[BUBBA069]

You say "used games" when you go them back in the day you could install Half Life with out steam. Then it become forced. Did you purchase the games new or pick them up from someone else?

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=2347-qdfn-4366

In that link there is info on showing your old physical keys to Steam and they can research it from there.

To me, I say fork it. Re-buy the Orange boxes and be done with it. They are $2 each.

HL 1 OB Save 91% on Half-Life 1 Anthology on Steam
HL 2 OB Save 90% on The Orange Box on Steam

That gets Half life (and add-on episodes), portal, and Team fortress.


Want CS and all the other Valve games, $30 Save 89% on Valve Complete Pack on Steam

save the hassle. start over. Turn on the 2 factor authentication security stuff. Lock your shit down. "thumbsup"

 

[skinnyj]

I went through this with some of my older games. I found it was usually less irritating to get new versions through Steam. The big thing being that the versions I got from Steam were usually optimized for newer PCs. I think I got the entire Half-Life trilogy for $5 on sale and caught the Homeworld Remastered set for $15.

 

[robertjpjr]

IF you go the route of buying new games.

Check g2a.com

There are other similar sites as well. Use the Google.

Short story: People buy bulk games when on sale and sell them super cheap.

 

[kgb424]

I looked and most of the games are now digitally downloaded

Or they send you the access code for Steam or Origin

So you don't need to buy the DVD game disc ?? to reload the game correct ??

Most of all my older games are all DVD and CD game disc's that run in XP or Windows 8 and even have a bunch of Windows 95 and Widows 98 games

Now I have Windows 10 and have not tried using the compatibility software mode to run the XP games

I don't play the older 95 and 98 games at all

Due have a few digital downloaded games on Steam and Origin

Also waiting for Far Cry 5, I'm stuck in Far Cry 4 like 30 some percent in, I can't beat a mission or objective to continue on with game

And have not played it in a long time, but due have the DLC pack with the Valley of the Yetis and the Hurk missions that come in later in game

So I'm limited when I play it, so I go explore but that's getting old and would like to finish Far Cry 4

Its the mission where you protect the Temple and the Shrine and the Ammo depot early in the game

I've done it a bunch of times differently and fail every time

 

[skinnyj]

Yeah... Most Steam and Origin stuff is digital download. No hard copy required after purchase. In fact, I don't think they use a key on newer games. I believe the "key" is tied to your Steam/Origin account.

As for your old games that run on 98/XP, i would look for versions on Steam/Origin, as 1) they will probably be pretty cheap (I got the entire Command & Conquer series for $20.) and 2) if they are older, they may be optimized to run in newer OS's and on a 16:9 monitor. This is why I bought the Homeworld: Remastered set. I had the original Homeworld games but they ran really screwy in Win 10, even in compatibility mode.

 

[kgb424]

Wow that was crazy, I fired up my old Pentium 4 2.5GHZ with XP Pro with Service Pack 3, it has sat in my garage for 5 years

The only thing it needed was a new CR2032 battery for the CMOS cause every it booted you had to push F4 to enter setup and save the settings and exit

And it comes right up to the desktop, the weird thing is I got window that opened up and said Microsoft Windows will stop supporting XP in 2014, I set the date and time to the 2nd of Dec 2017 and it now keeps, the correct date and time

The Widows Explorer 8 browser will not open web pages, its does connect cause if you check the connective, it shows the amount of packets sent and number of packets received

But Google Chrome will open websites, with no problems

What's even more crazy, it says they stopped supporting XP 3 years almost 4 years now, But Windows Automatic Updates, downloaded and installed 38 updates for XP and the Service Pack 3

That's crazy shit

 

[durok]

I'd think that happened because it sat for 5 years in the garage, 3-4 years ago support ended, so you still had 1-2 years of updates not yet installed on that particular PC. Glad it's up and running!

Really old Internet Explorer versions have loads of security loopholes, that's why the browser is crippled - frankly, that's a GOOD thing... don't even try to use IE.

Use Chrome.

 

[skinnyj]

I use Chrome and may give Firefox another look.

I use UPS Worldship at my work and they must have some deal with Microsoft, because you are not allowed to choose a preferred browser for internet realated utilities. You are stuck with IE.

 

[sportbikeco]

Put windows 10 on it ASAP. Use windows media creation tool and usb thumb drive.

 

[durok]

I use Chrome and may give Firefox another look.

I use UPS Worldship at my work and they must have some deal with Microsoft, because you are not allowed to choose a preferred browser for internet realated utilities. You are stuck with IE.

Many system admins limit you to one browser or another. Simplifies things for them...

 

[JatoTheRipper]

IF you go the route of buying new games.

Check g2a.com

There are other similar sites as well. Use the Google.

Short story: People buy bulk games when on sale and sell them super cheap.

Is that how that works?

 

[kgb424]

I looked on Ebay and there is a bunch of sellers that give you a key that you can register to use on Steam and some I think are the game download and the key

They say they will email you with hours after your payment has been confirmed, I might have buy a digital downloaded game from Ebay and see how it works

Cause I looked at games on DVD's and CD rom's and a lot of them have already been used on Steam, so defeats the purpose of buying game disc's

When I guess you download the games and it stays in Steam as long you have a valid account and verified email address

 

[sportbikeco]

yes.

log in at any computer and install your game.

 

[BUBBA069]

Get rid of the XP. Its a ticking time bomb of security issues. Chrome stopped supporting it long ago for XP and Vista, Firefox ended support earlier this year.

If you must keep the box, keep it off the internet.

 

[skinnyj]

I looked on Ebay and there is a bunch of sellers that give you a key that you can register to use on Steam and some I think are the game download and the key

They say they will email you with hours after your payment has been confirmed, I might have buy a digital downloaded game from Ebay and see how it works

Cause I looked at games on DVD's and CD rom's and a lot of them have already been used on Steam, so defeats the purpose of buying game disc's

When I guess you download the games and it stays in Steam as long you have a valid account and verified email address

I'm missing something here... Why would you buy a game third party on E-Bay in what sounds like a sketchy transaction, when you could probably buy the same game directly on Steam, a legitimate vendor?

 

[Jim85IROC]

I miss the good old days when you bought software and just installed it on your damned PC. Now you need to meander through online bullshit that takes your stuff hostage.

I got Rocksmith a few years ago and couldn't wait to install it. Nope. Had to install Steam, set up an account with them, and THEN I could have Rocksmith. It took me two days to get it set up and into the game. I played it once and never loaded it again.

 

[BUBBA069]

I miss the good old days when you bought software and just installed it on your damned PC. Now you need to meander through online bullshit that takes your stuff hostage.

I got Rocksmith a few years ago and couldn't wait to install it. Nope. Had to install Steam, set up an account with them, and THEN I could have Rocksmith. It took me two days to get it set up and into the game. I played it once and never loaded it again.

blame pirates for the move away from old school install methods. They still pirate games, but its slowed down a fair bit.

I like steam. I can buy a game, saved in my account digitally. No CD/DVD to keep track of. I have close to 100 games in my Steam account. Hell I can buy a game via the Steam app, and have it installing on my machine and be ready for me by the time I get home from work.

PC craps out, then I reload my system, queue up the downloads and Steam chugs along while I'm at work installing games, along with all my saves.