I believe that I have seen Alfred saying that you need to delete the Clientregistry.blob, as this is where steam stores all its variable information.
Regards, Michael Madsen *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 09-08-2004 at 11:25 McCormack, Chris wrote: >Alfred, is it possible to force a client to re-ping the servers when they >run the update command ? If clients were able to locate the best server at >update time to connect to, then surely a lot of the ill's that people >experience with slow updates will just fade away ? > >If the above is not possible then : >Where does the steam client store this information ? and is it possible to >be altered to a preferred server ? > >Chris > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Alfred >Reynolds >Sent: 09 August 2004 05:34 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: RE: [hlds_linux] Selecting Content Servers > > >Once a month or so it "pings" a number of content servers and chooses >the one with the lowest latency to determine the region ("cell") you are >in. > >- Alfred > >----Original Message---- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Britt >Priddy (PZGN) Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2004 9:11 PM To: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] Selecting >Content Servers > >> Is the only way to obtain a different content server to delete the >> ClientRegistry.blob and its possible be assigned a new content >> server? How does it know our region? By IP or the servers we >> connect to? >> >> >> _____________________________ >> Britt Priddy >> Network Engineer >> Power Zones Gaming Network >> www.powerzones.com >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Alfred Reynolds" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2004 9:53 PM >> Subject: RE: [hlds_linux] Selecting Content Servers >> >> >> > The Steam client currently auto-discovers your "region" based on a >> > graph of content servers we have defined. There are no user >> > configurable parts to this system. >> > >> > ----Original Message---- >> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of >> > AgentHH Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2004 7:44 PM To: >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] >> > Selecting Content Servers >> > >> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > > > >> > > > I haven't tried it, but I'm not sure how well it will work. I've >> > > > sniffed the traffic thats flowing when updating steam before, >> > > > and it seems to contact a master (authentication?) server in >> > > > the US which then says use this content server. I'm not sure if >> > > > the master server cares that you can't contact the server. I >> > > > would hope the client would go, can';t get to that server, give >> > > > me another.. but it's something worth playing with! >> > > > >> > > > john >> > > >> > > I can't say I'm having stellar successes right now. Steam seems to >> > > contact a master server (I've seen Valve Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 14) and >> > > uses that for a content server as well. If I disconnect my >> > > Internet connection, it tries a combination of those three and >> > > then says "Steam cannot connect blah blah blah". >> > > >> > > I think _VALVE_ should do something to help us out here by >> > > allowing to select a specific server, or at least specify our >> > > (client) region, as this seems to be something that's going to be >> > > an ugly hack, if it even works. >> > > >> > > --AgentHH >> > > >> > > _______________________________________________ >> > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list >> > > archives, please visit: >> > > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list >> > archives, please visit: >> > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux >> > >> > >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list >> archives, please visit: >> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > >_______________________________________________ >To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >please visit: >http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > >*********************************************** >This e-mail and its attachments are confidential >and are intended for the above named recipient >only. 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