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I'm going to uninstall/delete left4dead. I'll try installing Team Fortress 2, as well as re-downloading/installing Left4dead. Maybe the file got corrupted over time?

k. I'll give that a whirl.

I changed the server, restarted. Hit "play" for Left4Dead.
A pop up occurred, said completing instillation 1% .

It "froze" there for a minute and then another pop-up occurred saying "Steam servers are busy" error code 2.

I'm going to uninstall/delete left4dead. I'll try installing Team Fortress 2, as well as re-downloading/installing Left4dead. Maybe the file got corrupted over time?

Valve’s most striking recruiting campaign is a recent move to establish a hardware group to develop technologies that can enhance the playing of games. The company posted a job listing for an industrial designer, hinting that it planned to get into the computer business itself. “We’re frustrated by the lack of innovation in the computer hardware space, though, so we’re jumping in,” the listing read. “Even basic input, the keyboard and mouse, haven’t really changed in any meaningful way over the years.”

Valve also recruited Jeri Ellsworth, an inventor and self-taught chip designer, whose pinball machines decorate Valve’s offices. Ms. Ellsworth recently gave a tour of Valve’s hardware laboratory, proudly showing off 3-D printers, a laser cutter and other industrial tools used to cobble together hardware prototypes. While interviewing for the job, she said, she was dubious about Valve’s interest in hardware.

“At one point, I said a hardware lab could be very expensive, it could be like a million dollars,” she recalled. “Gabe said, ‘That’s it?’ ”

A DRIVING force behind Valve’s most far-out hardware project, wearable computing, is being led by Michael Abrash, a veteran of technology and game companies who helped Valve get off the ground in the 1990s by licensing its important game software from his employer at the time, Id Software. To Mr. Abrash, glasses that project games in front of players’ eyes are an obvious next step from today’s versions of wearable computers, smartphones and tablets.

While Google’s glasses will display texts and video conferences, Valve has greater technical challenges to overcome with augmented-reality games. It has to figure out how to keep stable an image of a virtual object (say, a billboard) that is meant to be attached to a real-world object (the side of a building) while a player moves around. Otherwise, the illusion would be shattered. Source: NYT

I tried that, still got the error message. So I deleted Left4Dead2 and am re-downloading it, and letting it install.

I deleted Left4dead, deleted the other files. Redownloaded left4dead and am still getting the error. So I deleted it again. Now I'm trying Team Fortress 2.

I am using playonlinux.

I gave up...
I'll wait for the linux versions.