How does steam work then?


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Just got my nice new video card :D Saphire 9600XT Fireblade:D with my Halflife2 voucher...

so I go and get Steam like it tells me input my serial and i've got access to all the old halflife stuff with this key and HL2 will appear on steam once released :D

anyways what I want to know is how does steam work? because within 10minutes of installing steam i was playing the original halflife in single player mode, when i check the steam directory it was 750mb.... have valve created some sort of super compression of sumtin? i mean 10mins to get halflife down?

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hmm. even if u were going at 100k. that means every 10 seconds, u do 1 meg. multiply that by 6= 6 megs

6 megs X 10 mins = 60 megs. weird, how can a file only 60 megs, become 750, lol.

unless u installed some stuff from a cd. or did u download the whole game from the net

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hmm. even if u were going at 100k. that means every 10 seconds, u do 1 meg. multiply that by 6= 6 megs

6 megs X 10 mins = 60 megs. weird, how can a file only 60 megs, become 750, lol.

unless u installed some stuff from a cd. or did u download the whole game from the net

nope, never had Halflife installed dont' even own the original cd, it all came down through steam.

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i would assume, that it downloads the first 3 levels, and such and in the background perhaps downloads the rest. also there would of course be compression, so you could do it in about 400ish megs.

but my best guess is that it does progressive downloading.

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It progressively downloads the game as you are playing. You wait for the files necessary to play like, the first level, and then it starts. Like streaming video, only ... a streaming game.

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How does it work ??

It doesent :wacko:

It does work if you know what the hell you're doing. Stop going through steam threads saying it doesn't work.

Sleep, good question though. Maybe cause I'm medicated on everything and anything cause of this flu, but I am completely stumped lol.

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i dloaded a 150 meg file from kazaa (i dont think i can say what it is here), andit uncompressed to 1.2 gigs. i know it sounds wierd but i swear it took me more than two hours to uncempess it. it had a .big extension.

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probs gotta do with this thing, if you right-click on a game, click options/properties/whatever, then click calculate cache status, it says the necessary size for it to be "ready to play" is 48MB for HL, and 72MB for CS. Now what that exactly means i have no idea. + my key has suddenly stopped working (invalid user ID error when connecting to servers - i actually BOUGHT this key grr)

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