steam game questions?

[Andrew]

This is something that is still being evaluated, though I am not really sure if it has taken affect across all Steam accounts.

I have the same problem. Some of my disc copies will not install from the disc anymore. The way I understand it is the nice Steam people have "discontinued" certain games so they must be downloaded no matter what. Although, wait just a moment - you mentioned GTAIV, but the disc version of that game does not install through Steam. And wow, they already did this to SRIV - holy crap!! I'm more than certain that this is what your problem is. There's nothing you can do about it. I was so outraged by it that I sent my games back to the place where I ordered them from.