chefthom

I have no idea how it did it, but, given that Steam is essentially malware; I guess it did something nasty to the underlying settings in Windows. I'm sure that completely re-installing all of the software on my machine will fix the problem, but my point is that I shouldn't have to if Steam is safe! As to the various options you present as excuses on behalf of Steam, it's a new, high spec machine with a clean install of a supported OS and the only nasty software on it was Steam. Also, I am NOT the only person who has had problems with it, it would appear that you have too, I'm glad that you're experience with them was so good compared to mine, but there are plenty of others out there who've suffered and plenty who simply refuse to use Steam after experiences like my own or who are denied access. I can only presume that your problem was a simple one to fix, if it isn't, they are significantly less helpful, especially when you can PROVE that they are at fault. I'm told that I was lucky not to be banned for daring to complain. I am glad that you are able to use the advertised features so easily; I wasn't even able to play Skyrim on my own machine never mind any other. Skyrim was removed from my game library by Steam and therefore I could not play it anywhere but, if I was prepared to pay for the game again, it would be restored. As for my Mods, as I said, my game WAS unplayable. I was able to find a way to get it working again by disabling some of Steam’s “features” with help from Bethesda who were extremely helpful in comparison and, like me, rather less than convinced of Steam’s explanation for my problems. I can totally understand your desire to believe that Steam is a benign, gamer friendly utility and I hope that you never run into problems with it, but the truth is rather different to the general perception. I also had serious problems with Steam, but it's the price WE pay for piracy. As for not buying Steam games: I would LOVE to not buy Steam games, but all of the good games require Steam. I need to update to the next version, and right now I'm stalling because the last update I made in November took 12 hours and some very rude tech support. They finally figured out that my update couldn't complete because my ISP interrupted the download, causing something to be lost in the mix, only it didn't just happen once. It kept happening over and over again. I don't know by looking what files are included in the update, but they DO. it was as simple as setting Steam to offline (no updates), but now....Guess it's time to try it... Wish me luck... I just wanna try SKYUI. If there was an archived version for 1.8, I'd avoid the stress. Actually, I'm looking forward to it...Just the masochist in me:P