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a little more info would help. system specs, internet type/speed, any error reports, firewall, antivirus. that sort of stuff.
IT worked good, but few days ago it stoped worked. My friend had same isue.
Procesors: intel pentium 4 3ghz
Ram: ddr 667mhz 2x1gb
Vga: Nvidia geforce 9600gso 384 mb
i think you dont need to know other specs
in the Games menu in steam. right click on which ever game is faulting and open Properties. the click the Local Files tab, and hit Verify Integrity of Game Cache Files.
that will check if there are any errors in the game and download any updates as nessecary. it will also delete any custom content such as sounds and scripts, so make backups of and mods you want to keep.
hope it helps.
btw which A/V do you use? you may need to add the games executable (tf2.exe of whatever) to the process exception list in your antivirus. (most A/Vs have this option, if it doenst than dont worry about it) and check your firewall exception as well.
good luck.
heres a whole list of network issues on steam support (<- click that)
as far as AVG, they dont have any know issues between that and their games, so i dont think AVG is the proplem.
check that link out maybe there is some useful info for you. it appears that certin isp's conflict with steam, so have a look.
(and try that verify game thing too. it takes a little time, but it might help.)
when that screen comes up, press ` to get console, then print screen what it says, should be something like
cannot connect to server after 4 tries.
If so, were looking at network problem. Not the first one ive seen with 7