You should finish it, the ending is great and the Super Gravity Gun is awesome.
BTW I checked and Steam still uses 18mbs while in offline mode. I will be keeping it off for now.
Re: Steam and performance.
You should finish it, the ending is great and the Super Gravity Gun is awesome.
BTW I checked and Steam still uses 18mbs while in offline mode. I will be keeping it off for now.
"A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own."
C.S. Lewis
"So many people tiptoe through life, so carefully, to arrive, safely, at death."
Jermaine Evans
Re: Steam and performance.
Yeah i'll get round to finishing it soon. Just gonna complete KOTOR2 first (then i'll have to force myself off Joint operations)Originally Posted by Uesugi Kenshin
Re: Steam and performance.
I have never played KOTOR 2, I got into Project: Ego, aka Fable. Great game.....
How big of a difference did Steam make in benchmark scores?
"A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own."
C.S. Lewis
"So many people tiptoe through life, so carefully, to arrive, safely, at death."
Jermaine Evans
Re: Steam and performance.
So what is steam and what is it that it does for you?
When a fox kills your chickens, do you kill the pigs for seeing what happened? No you go out and hunt the fox.
Cry havoc and let slip the HOGS of war
Re: Steam and performance.
It is Valves proprietary game distribution and registration program. It was first implemented in Half Life 2. It requires you to install CS: Source, even if like me you hate CS. It makes you register the game online to start playing the single player game. It allows you to have your computer use a good deal of RAM and bandwith to constantly call Valve and ask if there are updates, I do not believe you can even set it for once daily or anything. Even in offline mode it uses 18mgbs of valuable RAM.
Did I miss any advantages? I do not know of many, but I am not hooked up to the mothership....
"A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own."
C.S. Lewis
"So many people tiptoe through life, so carefully, to arrive, safely, at death."
Jermaine Evans
Re: Steam and performance.
And with that...Red Harvest scratches Half Life 2 off his list of games to ever consider mounting on his hard drive. Reminds me of Norton Anti-Virus...
Rome Total War, it's not a game, it's a do-it-yourself project.
Re: Steam and performance.
Computer Gaming World was less than complimentary about Steam. According to them, everyone and his mother bought HL2 on the day it came out, took it home, installed it and then had to wait hours (about 8 for the CGW chief editor) just to play the game as the servers were overloaded with everyone's Steam trying to register their copy. Me thinks someone hadn't thought the idea through completely.
I got Steam compliments of having downloaded and installed the HL2 demo. I can't say I'm thrilled about it - just more junkware to gunk up my PC.
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Yeah, luckily or unluckily I had to wait a week or two so I could get my computer to someone's house where they have broadband. I missed the crowd.
It is annoying, it never seems to start up quickly when I want it to and when i don't want it to it does.....
"A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own."
C.S. Lewis
"So many people tiptoe through life, so carefully, to arrive, safely, at death."
Jermaine Evans
Re: Steam and performance.
It starts at about 10 MB afaik.Sounds to me as if it's doing more than just passing another 'this is a legal customer go ahead' signal.
That it crawls up to 18 MB in offline mode suggests that it's leaking.
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