Sleeper Veteran Posted December 22, 2003 Veteran Share Posted December 22, 2003 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? Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nugg3t Posted December 22, 2003 Share Posted December 22, 2003 u probably download a compress file, then it installs everything n then a file which was, lets say 260 megs, is now 750 megs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sleeper Veteran Posted December 22, 2003 Author Veteran Share Posted December 22, 2003 i would say it would have to be one heck of a small file... the max i ever get on my ADSL is 90kbs and I tend to average at 40/50kbs??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
memNOC Posted December 22, 2003 Share Posted December 22, 2003 hhmm yea i wondered myself how Steam works actually.. :unsure: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nugg3t Posted December 22, 2003 Share Posted December 22, 2003 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sleeper Veteran Posted December 22, 2003 Author Veteran Share Posted December 22, 2003 hmm. even if u were going at 100k. that means every 10 seconds, u do 1 meg. multiply that by 6= 6 megs6 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Killa-b Posted December 22, 2003 Share Posted December 22, 2003 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sleeper Veteran Posted December 22, 2003 Author Veteran Share Posted December 22, 2003 im off to bed, its got my head baffled.... lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nugg3t Posted December 22, 2003 Share Posted December 22, 2003 lol cya dude Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fugi Posted December 23, 2003 Share Posted December 23, 2003 steam connects to valve and dles the game steam is only like a dlmanager and game launcher ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
threetonesun Posted December 23, 2003 Share Posted December 23, 2003 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eXclusive Posted December 23, 2003 Share Posted December 23, 2003 How does it work ?? It doesent :wacko: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bangbang023 Veteran Posted December 23, 2003 Veteran Share Posted December 23, 2003 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eXclusive Posted December 23, 2003 Share Posted December 23, 2003 It does work if you know what the hell you're doing. Stop going through steam threads saying it doesn't work. You aint my freaking mom ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caroline Posted December 23, 2003 Share Posted December 23, 2003 Now there's a pretty picture... :huh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uniacidz Posted December 23, 2003 Share Posted December 23, 2003 Settle down now kiddies. :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YaZoR Posted December 23, 2003 Share Posted December 23, 2003 at first steam was crap, it really was, no denying it. now though valve had sorted it and it works as it should 99% of the time (for me at least). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuka_t Posted December 23, 2003 Share Posted December 23, 2003 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElementFire Posted December 23, 2003 Share Posted December 23, 2003 .ace prolly has the most compression for me. 400 megs became 700 on uncompression. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SimplyPotatoes Posted December 23, 2003 Share Posted December 23, 2003 You aint my freaking mom ! im your mom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Bourricot Posted December 23, 2003 Share Posted December 23, 2003 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) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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