Steam Client Update

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• On second thought, the numbers looked borked. : mati

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• Why does Valve continue to cater to crappy ass machines and their users that won't upgrade their Voodoo c : Sander Pilon
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  You sir, are very misinformed. If you make an engine that supports high graphics and ALSO supports lo... : TheNiXXeD
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    "an engine that supports high graphics and ALSO supports low graphics" Yes, and how do you do this? B... : Stangs44
    • You sir, are right. : [7]kami
    • By compromising? Shit those few hundred branch statements that determine what quality settings the ga... : SpiderMonkey
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      How do you comprimise...I mean having options to turn down texture detail, lower the resolution, turn off... : Vorlonesque
      • Oh bless your heart. There's more to a game than can just be adjusted by sliders in a control panel. We... : Stangs44
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  Valve hasnt compromised jackshit of HL2 in order to have low requirements and great performance. Have ... : MrLonghair
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    "there have been machines around to run it at high resolution and highest quality for years" Uh yeah..... : Stangs44
    • Long live the Quake/Voodoo1 days. Only the 1337 had the power to ... erm... be 1337? : [7]kami
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      valve shows the kind of forward thinking id is afraid to do. They have the guts to try something that ... : Sander Pilon
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        Doom 3 is just another new graphics engine Maybe to you but myself & many others actually enjoyed the : armybob
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          Well, sure, hl1 used a lot of id technology (never mind that they kicked out half of it to make their own... : Sander Pilon
          • ya that's cool. I think the industry is good with both. We need companies to push the envelope otherwise ... : armybob
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            I was "dissing" valve for their lack of forward thinking in their games. Yes, I agree that steam is neat... : Stangs44
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              Welcome to reality. They aim a game to cover the broadest demographic because that makes them the most mo... : Hyperion72
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                "Elitism"? BTW, where does that fit in? We're talking about a making a video game. Jump off your high h... : Stangs44
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                  His point was that id are in a position courtesy of their history that people respect them as technology ... : SpiderMonkey
                  • Please don't insinuate that Gabe is not as respected and is not in essentially the same position as Carma... : Stangs44
• I remember when Unreal came out, I knew about 2 people who had systems powerful enough to run it. : snuff
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  Ever hear of a game called Trespasser? The hardware requirement was SO high, almost no one could play th : VashTheStampede
  • I agree...I just wish that it boiled down to the game and not the money. : Stangs44

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• you don't wanna know how much firebird 0.7 or 0.8 or whatever antique browsers there are either. user... : Sander Pilon
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  I'm still running SP1. No plans in updating to SP2 until I start hearing some more positive info about it... : SilverSnake
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    I can't really find anything *specific* that it breaks.... : sharkII
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      The firewall breaks a ton of games. : ashke
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        More than the firewall in SP1? : nudel
        • Firewall and the products it blocks -> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=842242&product=wind... : sharkII
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        how so? thought you could just unblock all teh games that need to recieve a connection to work. got a... : armybob
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          there was a long, LONG list of games listed on the download page. : Mad Brahmin Disease
          • and most of it was due to the firewall, from what i understood. : carnivore
      • You are, of course, aware that you can turn it off? : wendigo
    • Psion Wavefinder. It just doesn't work with SP2 - uninstall and it's all happy. : gingerninja
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      Microsoft had a page themselves with a bunch of applications that it broke, including some Norton softwar... : SilverSnake
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        New Stuff: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/sp2/howto/default.mspx how to handle the old stuff: ... : sharkII
        • Hmm... looks like updates for IE, Outlook (express) and for the built in firewall. Three things I don't u... : SilverSnake
  • Exactly. : SpiderMonkey
• I have to keep SP1, I think. The school hasn't pushed it down the automatic patching service yet. : sgtsanity
• Or they just don't give a fuck about SP2 because of the compatibility issues? SP1 with the additional sec... : Mad Brahmin Disease

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  you know dvd drives can still read cd's right? : AllYourBase
  • But they can also read DVD's.... : snuff
  • yes - My point is that instead of 10 CD's, how about 1 DVD? : sharkII

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• Mother fuck. I replied to the wrong message. Well looks like I'm the damn idiot now. :-( : starvey

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  I *just* upgraded to 74 gigs... before that it was 30gigs for the last 4 years... : johnny rotten
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    74 gigs..... about a week worth of pron? :) : Sander Pilon
    • only freaks save porn... :) : johnny rotten
  • I just got a 160GB seagate for $50 after mail in rebate... dude. : snuff
• I have 240 gigs dedicated to my ATI HDTV Wonder, and I'm considering 2 of the 300 gig maxtor drives with ... : Jimbo Ro

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  There's no 9700 Pros either :( : TrptJim
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    ATI Radeon 9500/9700 Series : Kryn
    • Ah I'm blind. : TrptJim

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  and yet the largest chunk of that nvidia percentage is GF4MX or GF4 cards, ie DX7 and DX8 cards. The lar : johnny rotten
  • No way dude, they should make GF4MX games because that is what people own. I also have a 486 in my bas... : mallrice
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  It's not optimized towards ATI cards. Just happens to use DX9 by the book and pixelshader 2, where Nvidia... : MrLonghair
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    Sure... they have a million dollar deal and no optimizations. Pure logic. : [7]kami
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      just because you optimize for ati doesn't mean you can't optimize as well for nvidia... : Sander Pilon
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        Hehe, tell that to id Software. :-) : [7]kami
        • you've got the id software/nvidia relationship backwards there my friend, at least with regards to the Do... : johnny rotten
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          Whether you would like to believe otherwise or not, you can be damn sure Valve are trying to make the gam... : gl2 drivers
          • Also, if you're suggesting Doom3 runs faster on Nvidia hardware because of some deal they had with them t... : gl2 drivers
• Yes, OPTIMISE IT FOR GEFORCE 4 MX'S! : Toraz Chryx
• yet no 6800 class in there. : KinetiK

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• In addition to that it made my source-beta crash on exit several times. I deleted the folder as well and... : SnatchBlaster
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  This could be your big chance to make the switch to Call of Duty! Better than DoD in every aspect! Don'... : wendigo
  • It's true. CoD:UO adds domination mode (DoD flags), as well as bipod deployed MGs and sprinting (both of... : P-Squid

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• lol, I want one! : askedrelic
• Wow, there are already 200,000+ results already? The one the really worries me is that the winning v... : hawke

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  In what way is it spyware when they annouce it and tell people what it will be used for? : carpediem
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    If you get the option to not participate (or activly have to chose to participate) then it's fine IMHO. I... : SilverSnake
    • The survey is optional. : kin83
    • It shows you what it's about to transmit (after agreeing to the survey), then you have to click a whole o... : pwnage1232
• Hi how ur paranoia doing : MrLonghair
• You have no idea what you are talking about, and should go play in traffic. : mallrice
• survey was voluntary you had choice to partake in it... if u didnt want it then u didnt have to do. : Iwannaacura