Hey, I just installed Winblows 7 which I downloaded officially from Microsoft.com and so I got it working BUT when I install Steam (Steampowered.com) and I download a game such as Garry's Mod its says Preparing to load "[insert game name here]" and then it does its little loading cursor and then its doesn't do anything it just stops and the launching window closes and it won't start. Any ideas? is it Winblows 7? Something went wrong? Thanks.
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Steam & Boot Camp (Winblows 7)
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Is the cancel button grayed out? It takes my Steam anywhere from 2 seconds to 30 before that message closes and the game loads.
Are you running Peerguardian or have any firewall stuff open? That kind of stuff can stop a game loading. Can you access other things in Steam like the community page and the friends list?
Are you running Peerguardian or have any firewall stuff open? That kind of stuff can stop a game loading. Can you access other things in Steam like the community page and the friends list?
Could it be...?
I haven't installed the winblows drivers. Could it be that? or would it not really make a difference?
I haven't installed the winblows drivers. Could it be that? or would it not really make a difference?
Start taskmananger check if you see any steam processes started if you do cancel them and then you should be able to start steam and continue downloading/starting the game.