[DEFINITIVE] Half-Life 2 Thread

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i thought the grey line was avaliable bandwith. and the yello was usage, youll notice at 20:46 near the 16th there was an increase in avalaible, there will probally be anothe rincrease agian.

but i do also see the spikes as it were of the avalable bandwith, who knows, could jsut be hickups from being slammed, but ill will say this, this is a big test of steam, if it hold up to this withought goign down, then it will be popular.

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Yea, you're correct about the legend, except the gray line is theoritical, and as everyone knows things never get up to 100% when it comes to bandwidth. I've heard that Steam is actually somewhat powered by a bunch of mirrors offered by the community (not sure if this is true or not, I think maybe it was in the long gamespot article?). So if you have a direct 100 Mbps connection to the internet and a load balanced server solution you can make a deal with Steam and I'm sure they will be happy to put your little banner image in the download box. You can see right when the game was released a couple of the content servers didn't make the cut and crashed, but eventually everything evened out. I for one appluad Valve for trying to cut out the middle man. I hate game publishers almost as much as I hate record labels and the RIAA. Making Steam a requirement for the most anticipated game of the year is a true test however, and I find it interesting to watch what the outcome will be.

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Hell-In-A-Handbasket

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yea click on detailed and you can see the servers, ATI holds 2 of them, then various other companies.

Yea, your correct about the legend.  I've heard that Steam is actually somewhat powered by a bunch of mirrors offered by the community (not sure if this is true or not, I think maybe it was in the long gamespot article?).  So if you have a direct 100 Mbps connection to the internet and a load balanced server solution you can make a deal with Steam and I'm sure they will be happy to put your little banner image in the download box.  You can see right when the game was released a couple of the content servers didn't make the cut and crashed, but eventually everything evened out.  I for one appluad Valve for trying to cut out the middle man.  I hate game publishers almost as much as I hate record labels and the RIAA.  Making Steam a requirement for the most anticipated game of the year is a true test however, and I find it interesting to watch what the outcome will be.

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elliot

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I've heard that Steam is actually somewhat powered by a bunch of mirrors offered by the community (not sure if this is true or not, I think maybe it was in the long gamespot article?)

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http://www.steampowered.com/status/content_servers.html

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M.F.D.K

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Check out this website: click.

It should help you through the process. If you still can't figure it out, go to Start -> Control Panel -> Windows Firewall. Click Off. This is not the best idea, but will be okay until you figure out how to open ports.

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im runing winxp with SP1 so i dnt have the windows firewall on control panel, fuk dis after all that waitin now all i can do is luk at the case of HL2 :no:

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Hell-In-A-Handbasket

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dude, obviously its not steams fault, as europe isnt even close to flodding their bandwith acording to steams graphs, so steam doesnt suck, your ISP/Computer is whats giving the problems

bah steam susk.. doesnt even respond anymore.. :angry:

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S.MULLA

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dude, obviously its not steams fault, as europe isnt even close to flodding their bandwith acording to steams graphs, so steam doesnt suck, your ISP/Computer is whats giving the problems

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but why does steam hog my cpu usage for 4mins before proceeding to the next step? :no:

and why do i recieve a message from steam saying steam is curently facing problems??!!

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KJ_88

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Has anyone tried playing HL2 on a Dell Inspiron 8600? When I play it, sound effects are cut off and will only play for a half a second :(

The laptop has a SigmaTel C-Major Audio card and I have installed the latest Dell audio drivers but that doesn't fix it.

Does anyone else have this problem?

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sfalcon

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i've been trying for the last 2 hours now.. this just sucks..

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I saw the game in Best Buy, thought about purchasing it, and figured nah, i'll just download it off of steam. No dice... This is pretty poor. Obviously I'm going to still want the game, but shouldn't have Valve seen this coming?

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M.F.D.K

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I have my NIS firewall, as well as windows firewall turned off.  Steam freezes up when I try to create a new account.  This is driving me mad.  It jumps up to using 50-75% of my cpu... :angry:

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same **** here mate, no matter how gud the game cud be when u get so much **** installin it ... eh fuk it

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half life one source sucks. the only thing that looks different is the water. everything else is exactally the same. no updated models/textures or anything. I was expecting a change along the lines of cs 1.6 and cs:source, but I guess not.

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