Evening Reading

by Brian Leahy, Jan 05, 2011 5:00pm PST

Sadly, the 1.2 patch for StarCraft II has been pushed until next week. As soon as it goes live, expect a #shacknews chat room on Battle.net for organizing Shack matches and custom games.

Also, anyone interested in looking at SC2 statistics, build orders, win percentages, APM, and a ton more should go ahead and grab SC2Gears. This program doesn't interact with SC2 at all and runs completely off of replays. It will also autosave and rename your replays when it sees them pop-up in the SC2 folder.

It can also be used to easily upload replays, like so! I will never get tired of writing ER posts about SC2. Deal with it.

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Found this on the Steam forums
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccmoToUgEpo

How To Defrag Steam GCF's

Jan 05, 2011 9:32pm PST

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Found this on the Steam forums http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccmoToUgEpo How To Defrag Steam GCF's : Godhatesfatpeople
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  Tried it? : jimmy_legs
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    Doing it now. And it's defragging.
    
    Jan 05, 2011 9:37pm PST
    
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    Doing it now. And it's defragging. : Godhatesfatpeople
    - same. : jimmy_legs
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  "Don't worry about what the program is or what it does" Yeah okay youtube guy :D : geedeck
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    The program he's using is made by the author who made the GCF tools people have used for years. It's trus... : Godhatesfatpeople
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      Been using GCFScape for years http://nemesis.thewavelength.net/index.php?p=25 :) : Godhatesfatpeople
      
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      Yeah, and I figured it was something like that, but c'mon you have to lol at the statement though, yeah? : geedeck
      
      True :P Was just too lazy to explain it I guess : Godhatesfatpeople
  - It may be harmless but every time he says that it sets off alarms in my head and i want to tell him to go... : alphablu
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  Interesting no wonder my Defrag program can't ever seem to defray the Steam folder very well. I'm pretty ... : Shadowdane
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    So far this is doing a very thorough job at defragging every GCF packet in my Steamapps folder : Godhatesfatpeople
    - Yah I'll mess with it later about to get to bed. : Shadowdane
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    I'm pretty sure that what this is doing is defragging *inside* the GCF archives btw - not the same thing ... : TabsAZ
    - Ahh gotcha : Shadowdane
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  tagged for later usage. also for anyone who wants a good defrag program check "ultimate defrag" 30 day tr... : Hoax
  - http://www.disktrix.com/ultimatedefrag_try3.htm : Hoax
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    Yeah this program rules, I've had it for a few months now. You can exactly lay out the folder structure ... : TabsAZ
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      yeah it reduced boot time, prevents stream hickups and overall map load times significantly. i was surpri... : Hoax
      
      Yeah I used O&O up until getting UD3. : TabsAZ
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  How does this differ from the defrag thing that's built into steam on a game's Properties/Local Files tab... : TabsAZ
  - I am curious about the defrag diff as well. : bombay
  - Also wondering this... : biofrog
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  This is going to take a bit. : ant_hillbilly
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    Yeah, letting it run overnight. : Alco23
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      Alright really haven't seen any noticeable increase in speed. However my games usually load up pretty qu... : ant_hillbilly
      
      TF2 loads pretty slow (well a lot slower than what I remember it when it first came out), so I'm hoping t... : Alco23
  - It's sped-up my game start-up times along with getting rid of some odd FPS hitching i've been getting for... : Godhatesfatpeople
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  Does this work on ncf files like L4D and others? Google search is failing me. : jasoncrowley
  - Found the answer... sorta. This utility works on CGF files since the contents can't be touched by regular... : jasoncrowley

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