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Mike-KT
August 6th, 2007, 07:51 PM
The Steam Community Beta was released today. It seems cool although a little laggy. Give it a look and make your own profile etc.

You can access it by going to settings in Steam, then choosing to join in a beta near the bottom of the page. I made a TNR page, I'm not sure how to get you there in steam, but if you go to http://steamcommunity.com/groups/TNR you might begin to figure it out.
lefty
August 6th, 2007, 08:15 PM
beta is out already. damn, that was faster than i expected. ill give it a whirl when i get on my windows machine.
manofphat
August 6th, 2007, 08:35 PM
This is fun!
lefty
August 6th, 2007, 09:01 PM
i joined the group. cant join chat though.
jefftheworld
August 7th, 2007, 07:10 PM
In case you don't know, you've got to update your Steam Beta participation to be part of the Steam Community Beta. Just open steam, click settings and then change the Beta participation dropdown menu to "Steam Community Beta".
lefty
August 7th, 2007, 11:04 PM
oh ok... didnt know that.
RANDOM H3RO
August 10th, 2007, 12:02 AM
That's pretty coolio, I'm in.
DeathSniper
August 10th, 2007, 07:24 AM
Wow...buggy as hell. When SCB is enabled - if you hit your Windows key while playing, it will boot you back to Windows even though the key is disabled via registry. Everything lags quite a bit too (menus). Clicking and dragging on a window will cause the window to maximize as if you double-clicked...

Great concept again, needs more time :(
ORION
August 10th, 2007, 12:43 PM
Wow...buggy as hell. When SCB is enabled - if you hit your Windows key while playing, it will boot you back to Windows even though the key is disabled via registry. Everything lags quite a bit too (menus). Clicking and dragging on a window will cause the window to maximize as if you double-clicked...

Great concept again, needs more time :(

Sounds like you're talking about some kind of Valve product.
DeathSniper
August 10th, 2007, 07:25 PM
Are you COMPLETELY sure? ;)

I have to say...STEAM's been improved quite a bit now - I'd say it's even a *gasp* good program.
RANDOM H3RO
August 11th, 2007, 11:47 PM
I'm just wondering what this new feature is suppose to cover up in terms of buggyness with the old one or whatever.....

Problem: Buggy system, game, etc.

Solution: New program with more bugs!
jefftheworld
August 11th, 2007, 11:55 PM
I'm just wondering what this new feature is suppose to cover up in terms of buggyness with the old one or whatever.....

Problem: Buggy system, game, etc.

Solution: New program with more bugs!

To be honest, I've had no problems with it whatsoever. The only time it lags up is for a few seconds when you click SHIFT-TAB to open/close.
Mike-KT
August 12th, 2007, 01:04 AM
I haven't really noticed any bugs, just some incomplete options
jefftheworld
August 12th, 2007, 01:38 AM
I haven't really noticed any bugs, just some incomplete options

Same. It's still a beta, though, so we'll see.
RANDOM H3RO
August 12th, 2007, 01:39 AM
Par for the course on that one......

seems like "Half" life isn't the only thing that's progressing at a snail's pace.
Cleavage Monkey
August 12th, 2007, 10:30 AM
I just switched over to beta and when I went to restart steam I get this:

Steam.exe(main exception):CmultiFieldBlob(pserialized): Bad field - extends past end of blob.

So any suggestions? Nothing on the steam forums. I figure if I reinstall Steam it will go back to the old version but I don't know what file to delete to allow it to re-install. Anyone know that one?

Ok nevermind. I deleted the steam file, let it reinstall and it reinstalled as the beta and is now working. Not sure why it did what it did before. Oh well it's working now.
RANDOM H3RO
August 13th, 2007, 04:10 PM
I just don't like the shift+tab thing cause times when it's only me left I like to walk = shift and see how many are left = tab.....

result flashes in and out of user find.
ORION
August 13th, 2007, 04:45 PM
PROTIP: F3 is not bound by steam -> in settings bind F3 (or other useless F keys) to Steam Friends.
RANDOM H3RO
August 13th, 2007, 04:54 PM
Sweet, cause that was getting on my nerves something fierce.
Mike-KT
August 13th, 2007, 06:28 PM
You could have also just disabled it.

I uninstalled the beta, because I can do everything I did through firefox, and it was destroying my less than good computer.
Harb
August 16th, 2007, 10:26 AM
well i installed it no problems so far - rather like it - especially that friends seems up and more stable than before :D
SKULLCRUSHER
August 16th, 2007, 01:29 PM
I canceled participation as it was interfering with my Steam games.
Harb
August 20th, 2007, 06:56 AM
in what way skulls?
SKULLCRUSHER
August 20th, 2007, 05:22 PM
The Steam icon on the system tray - when I left clicked on it to bring up the options:
Games, Friends, Servers etc... nothing happened. Had to click on it a few times to get it to work. Stopped participation, now it works as before.
Harb
August 22nd, 2007, 06:52 AM
weird i havent had that problem at all in htebeta community thing - it al works the same as it did to bring up games or anythign else for me - o well
DeathSniper
August 23rd, 2007, 11:32 AM
I had to cancel my participation as well due to certain issues that arose. Great concept. Needs another 2 years. And it still won't be totally stable ;)
manofphat
September 14th, 2007, 10:09 PM
Simple reminder for all of our regulars to join our Steam Community profile page!
manofphat
October 9th, 2007, 02:40 PM
Our group is now 100 members large!
manofphat
December 24th, 2007, 07:22 PM
We now have 300 members in our group!