Left 4 Dead Gone Gold, Now Pre-Loading on Steam

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  steam seems to cap out for me at 3 MB/sec can anyone confirm a higher speed than that? : brainchild420
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    hrmmm i could have been wrong, it was peaking at 3.2MB/sec after about 25% ~12 mins total d/l time... : brainchild420
    • My max download is 24KB/sec. Consider yourselves fortunate! : zooolander
• going 830 KiB/s (kibibytes/kilobytes) for me, or ~ 6.7 Mibit/s (mebibits/megabits). : gid
• I got 6mbps downloading the demo from Japan but I typically get 4mbps. I have 100mbps cable and steam is ... : mrflamey

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• Oh well. Boot Camp to the rescue for you. : AlexW1203
• if you have a macbook, even bootcamp wont save you... i got 5fps...pretty unplayable.... tf2 runs OK thou... : sanewave

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• I'm sitting at 16.2 as of right now. Can't wait for Tuesday. : Confrustrating
• i have over 33 hours. i have a lot of friends ive played with, had a lot of different outcomes and chaos... : i poop from there
• Oh ho ho! 41.6 hours. Playing almost non-stop since the demo released. : comiekazie
• You guys are crazy, I've only played 8 hours. : IHATEDUST
• I've gotten 11.9 hours so far. Apartments is a little boring, but Subway is a ton of fun. : Wisp!
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  Wow you guys are nuts. I be lucky to get 30-40 hrs out of the full game., its cool but dunno....just doe... : supyoscn
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    Half of the game is who you play with, fun people make the game 100% better. : comiekazie
    • I was busy with my girlfriend so I only got a couple of hours. <_<; : TrigunVash38
    • exactly. thats why MP games are much more fun for me than SP games. i have a big list of ppl i like to ... : i poop from there
• um, i beatt the demo 2wice and called it quits..yeah you have problems... : sanewave

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• fearful ^^ shit that is how afraid I am ! : Lukiopimp

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  I did not suffer with that effect at all - you may want to do the standard "check for updated drivers" th... : wytefang
  • Actually I have a G9 and the drivers are up to date. I think I'm stuck here. :-/ : three-d
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  i felt that too...just felt really sluggish. could be framerate.. : magicfucker
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    Yeah, might be framerate. SLI 7900 GS ain't cuttin it? I'm sad panda. :-( : three-d
    • http://www.clutchkills.com/tips/left-4-dead-strategy-guide-and-tweaks/ - try anything listed on here? : VuduChild
• no problems here. : grmreapr

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• mine works : senor135
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  Mine works. Play with friends. oh right. Get friends. : unjustend
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    sorry that was rough. : unjustend
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      How does playing with friends fix MY ping? : heartsauce
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        If your friends are close, it picks a server close to you all, you all have a decent ping to it. That's ... : unjustend
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          I just don't get how "working around" something that needs improvement is a good thing. If PC gamers w... : heartsauce
          • All hail the decider, the most dicidiest of them all. : Splinebastard
• Yeah, the server stuff still leaves much to be desired. I'm running a l4d demo server on my cable modem ... : gid

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• Check your rig dude, i've been playing for more than a few hours and mine hasn't crashed once. : bob3578
• i got a lot of crashes the first day it was out but none since they patched it : aeg1x
• The only problem I've had is trying to use the browser. Quick matching stuff has worked fine. : Old_Fart
• I haven't had any crashes at all, but I do have to say it's much buggier game than other Valve games, usu... : Mystery0000
• Not one crash up till now. Subjective performance was improved a bit after update. : Lukiopimp
• I get that soundloop crash unless I put that command into the console. Try that. Google it. : Big Luke
• My friends and I have a lot of crashes - 99% of them during the lobby phase. : ElPopo
• yup..crashed twice for me within 30 min : magicfucker
• I've had a few crashes here and there. For the most part, my video card driver would crash and windows w... : gid

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  I dont know if this 100% works and ends up saving you 3gig in the end, if you try it, let me know - perha... : VuduChild
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    my preload is complete.. which seems fast for max speed of 150kb/s .. so perhaps it did work - or now i j... : VuduChild
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      Okay, I closed steam and re-opened after the apparently 100% status and the Pre-Load once again started u... : VuduChild
      • I give up on this plan - someone who is more patient might be able to figure it out - but my Steam got a ... : VuduChild
• Alternatively, if your ISP has a Steam mirror, make sure you limit all connections on port 27030 to your ... : biofrog

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• oh wow did they change that to est? Thats surprising considering they usually do everything based off of ... : Iwannaacura
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  So this will be open to play just past midnight of the 17th then, if I read this correctly and aren't bei... : wytefang
  • No, midnight of the 18th...in Eastern time. For me, it's still the 17th though, because of time zones. : Wisp!
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  Valve usually releases on Midnight of every timezone. This helps to keep their servers from shitting bric... : mansonist2000
  • When have they done this before? : Wisp!

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  So glad they didn't release the same week as Gears (as they were originally planning on doing). : carbontree
  • I wish they would have just released it tomorrow, I would have had all fucking weekend to play. Stupid Ge... : heartsauce
  • i dont think it would have really mattered. i read an article in Game Informer that said that pre-orders ... : mansonist2000

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• The files are still encrypted, they just arnt in GCF's this time. : Flobster