Problems with steam, NEED HELP

Twitchy Racoon

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So I just finished downloading the TorchLight Demo for my mac but it wont work and keep telling me: Steam must be running to play this game (SteamAPI_Init()failed)

please help
 
Apr 28, 2008
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Hm... I haven't played any demo's off steam, so I may be out of my element, but I'm guessing its downloading an update or something, or perhaps steam is off for whatever reason. Try going to your library, right-click on it, and choose "properties". Then go to the "local files" tab and click "verify integrity of game cache".

If that doesn't work try restarting Steam and/or redownload the demo.

Other than that not much else I can suggest.

And I feel I must say this, my suggestions are for the PC, and since I know little to nothing about Macs, my advice may not work. But its worth a shot.
 

Pielikey

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Steam has just gotten to the Macs, I'm sure it's still basically a beta despite Valve saying the technical strings attached are aesthetic.

I guess log out of steam, go into your main steam directory (which is generally c:/program files on windows computers, I heard for Macs it was somewhere like .documents or something?) and delete a file called "clientregistry.blob" . Don't worry, it should rebuild itself upon restarting steam. I'm not sure how stable Steam for Mac is though.

hope it helps, good luck.