[DEFINITIVE] Half-Life 2 Thread

[FloatingFatMan]

u can choose where u want to install steam, dont blame steam for your petty mistakes

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I know that, and I did install Steam where I wanted. What it DIDN'T do was tell me at any point that any games I installed later can ONLY be installed in the Steam folders, which is bloody stupid... Not everyone is blessed with massive drives... I have 3, a 20, a 40 & an 80... all of which don't have a lot of space on them... I had to uninstall Doom 3 just for HL2, and that was NOT on the same drive as Steam...

[karma_police]

remove thos pics or just put a link.

[x_Shifty_x]

drk blue!

[speedy_kevin]

Unlocking Steam Files... 66%

Is it normal that this stage takes about a half hour???

[blachole]

My laptop did that when I was unlocking. I restarted steam and then just let it go. Its fully unlocked now.

[FloatingFatMan]

The industry will be moving away from folder/directory structure more and more in the future, especially as drive sizes increase. It will be the situation where its not really important where stuff is stored, but rather that it is 'just there.'

edit:

Oh, i forgot to mention, as the longhorn timeframe comes into play, we'll begin to see the major begining of a more abstract directory structure.

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I'm aware of this, and as a professional developer, I can tell you it's NOT something I or any of my collegues is looking forward to... It's just pandering to the n00b who can't find his ass with his hands let alone work out a sensible storage structure for his files...

And again, not everyone in the world is blessed with massive HD's with oodles of free space... Also, sooner or later a drive will fill up and another will be required, but can you install newer games on this new drive with Steam? Like crap can you!!

[idunno]

just played for 3 hrs and it's ****ing amazing...

1 thing though on certain explosions i lag for 1-2 secs...

would more ram help me out??

my specs

p4 2.8ghz

512ram

geforcefx 5600

[leovanham]

haha nice (Y) will be using the ubur blue one!

[Larney]

Unlocking Steam Files... 66%

Is it normal that this stage takes about a half hour???

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Depends on how many other people are unlocking it :\

[icecream]

please post some screenshots and include your specs and the framerate you are getting, thx!

[FatCat]

damn this thread is turning into a screenshot spolier fest for those who haven't played it yet.

[Larney]

please post some screenshots and include your specs and the framerate you are getting, thx!

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There is another thread for that...lets keep this one clean-ish?

damn this thread is turning into a screenshot spolier fest for those who haven't played it yet.

Yeah, put [sPOLIER] all over your thread!! The original starting message requested you put

so please keep in with on-topic rules?

Edited November 16, 2004 by Larney

[TmasterT]

first ones cool, but i like the second blue one witht he orange too

[karma_police]

There is another thread for that...lets keep this one clean-ish?

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No, read the first post.

The excitement is at full force now. In anticipation for even more posts on this subject, this will be the official thread to discuss the following.....

Post your in game screen shots.

Requests for help (computer related as well as Steam)

General Discussion.

If you are stuck at any point in the game, post for assistance here.

Also, please keep in mind, use the spoiler tag.

[psybapunk]

boohoo, HL2 is ten times a better game than doom3 anyway.

[icecream]

yeah, that other thread was made by me, but it got closed and some moderator said it should be posted here :s

[Larney]

yeah, that other thread was made by me, but it got closed and some moderator said it should be posted here

Sorry, got it wrong :whistle:

Edited November 16, 2004 by Larney

[cesardrgn]

Now those are really good... (Y)

[rajputwarrior]

these are all really cool, whats worse is i gotta rally it to a futureshop(best buy in america) buy the game then go straight to class:@

[TmasterT]

the game took 10 minutes to unlock, while i was eating breakfast. got back and played. no install necesary as i had downloaded the hl2 cache. i have never hand any complaints about steam othe than the firends thing

[x_Shifty_x]

Combine fortress no text...

U THINK THATS BAD!

i pre ordered mine

im sitting here at work with it, and no pc to play it on, only my laptop.

ohh ****, my laptop!

/me installs

[l77Il7H]

wow, the unlocking process stinks!

[x_Shifty_x]

combine no text blue

[Makostar]

Problem: Cannot connect to Steam Servers.

When I try to connect to a server on Steam and try to join it the server info screen comes up and the ping jumps from ~50 to 2000 and will not referesh. I cannot connect to the server either. I tried disabling my firewall (NIS 2005) while I playing and that didn't help. It might be my router (Linksys BEFSX41 Latest Firmware). Anyone know a work around or if there are ports that need to be openned.

[Larney]

wow, the unlocking process stinks!

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Yeah, it went really slowly at 8:00AM GMT this morning for the official release. If you look on http://www.steampowered.com you can see the large amount of increase of bandwidth given out via Valve (Steam) :o