Steam is Preloading on my PC - US : V - Skyrim

» Mon May 07, 2012 11:34 am

Ohhhhh yeahhhhh just started pre-loading. 2 hours to download the pre-load.

MY PRECIOUSSSSssssssSSSSssss

OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGomgomgomgomgokgmOGMGOMGOGM

» Mon May 07, 2012 5:50 pm

Pre-loading in Canada!!! Woot!

» Mon May 07, 2012 5:40 am

Bleh, sorta wish I got it from Steam so I could start playing right as the bell strikes midnight. But I traded in Gears3 and Batman:AC so I'm getting PC Skyrim practically for free at Gamestop.

For this reason, I hope in the future, you can pre-order a Collectors Edition online, be e-mailed the CD-Key, enter it in Steam to get it right away, then later in the mail get the goodies of CE.

» Mon May 07, 2012 5:38 am

I R SO HAPPEH NAO.

SO CLOSE. 2 MOAR DAYS!

» Mon May 07, 2012 1:44 pm

I don't see the option to pre-load after re-starting Steam. I also get the 'servers too busy' error when trying to pre-load manually. I'll have to try again later I guess.

» Mon May 07, 2012 4:17 am

Ohhhhh yeahhhhh just started pre-loading. 2 hours to download the pre-load.

MY PRECIOUSSSSssssssSSSSssss

OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGomgomgomgomgokgmOGMGOMGOGM

^ this. right now im so excited, now that its finally preloading all the excitment i havnt been feeling is blowing up inside of me

» Mon May 07, 2012 7:20 pm

Just got home 2 mins ago and saw it was up! Awwwwww Yeah!

» Mon May 07, 2012 4:45 am

Make sure you restart your Steam to get the pre-load button. It wasn't showing up for me until I completely restarted Steam.

It's almost time! :celebration:

» Mon May 07, 2012 4:39 pm

Question: If steam closes unexpectedly, if there's a power failure and your PC turns off...

do your files get corrupted or does steam just pick up from where it left off and everything will be okay?

No file corruption, nothing?

» Mon May 07, 2012 3:55 pm

Question: If steam closes unexpectedly, if there's a power failure and your PC turns off...

do your files get corrupted or does steam just pick up from where it left off and everything will be okay?

No file corruption, nothing?

just pauses the download and you can start it up when it comes back online

» Mon May 07, 2012 6:03 am

yea not just exit out of the brower, exit out of the entire steam application and then boot it back up. plus servers could be overloading with all us on the forums

» Mon May 07, 2012 7:37 pm

Yay, also preloading here in Holland!!

» Mon May 07, 2012 6:24 pm

Mine preloading ok -- no prob at first attempt, 5:20 pm Pacific Time. Pretty slow though, 300 to 350 KB/S or so. & I have 20 MB internet. I guess it's busy up there!

Argh enough waiting already!!!!!!!!

» Mon May 07, 2012 1:15 pm

Question: If steam closes unexpectedly, if there's a power failure and your PC turns off...

do your files get corrupted or does steam just pick up from where it left off and everything will be okay?

No file corruption, nothing?

It should pick up where it left off but you should verify the files when it's done.

» Mon May 07, 2012 4:58 pm

Just looking at the shortcut in my desktop... it's so... so... beautiful :tes:

» Mon May 07, 2012 12:19 pm

Ahh finally... 3.6 mb/s , 12% complete.

» Mon May 07, 2012 5:04 pm

Umm... I bought the game on Steam, I live in the US and I see no option to pre-load. In steam I jsut see news and on the website it has a new thing that just says I own the game. Thats it no Pre-load Option. What am I missing?

You may have to shut down steam and relaunch it. Mine didnt show preload availability until after i had done so.

» Mon May 07, 2012 1:25 pm

Question: If steam closes unexpectedly, if there's a power failure and your PC turns off...

do your files get corrupted or does steam just pick up from where it left off and everything will be okay?

No file corruption, nothing?

From my past experience, Steam will generally do a quick scan for corruption and then pick up where it left off.

» Mon May 07, 2012 2:25 pm

Done - that was fast.

and here i was, all worried that the MW3 downloads would hinder me.

i love you steam.

» Mon May 07, 2012 5:02 am

My crappy USA internet is DLing @ 1.8 MB/s

» Mon May 07, 2012 7:02 am

It should pick up where it left off but you should verify the files when it's done.

How do you Verify your files?

@Emanon

Ok good. Thank you

» Mon May 07, 2012 2:03 pm

"Pre-Load" button just showed up within the past 20 minutes or so. Color me content.

» Mon May 07, 2012 4:21 am

My crappy Canada connection downloading @ 500kb/s.

My crappy USA internet is DLing @ 1.8 MB/s

» Mon May 07, 2012 9:18 am

How do you Verify your files?

Right click the game in your Library go to:
Properties > Local Files > Verify Integrity of Game Cache

» Mon May 07, 2012 6:41 am

I don't see the option to pre-load after re-starting Steam. I also get the 'servers too busy' error when trying to pre-load manually. I'll have to try again later I guess.

If you check the http://store.steampowered.com/stats/content/ page that should show you if your regions servers are being overloaded - if so try going to Steam->settings at the top left of the client, then in the Downloads+Cloud tab, switching to a different download region.