Pet Hates - please enter CD
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Name: jhunt303
Date: January 13, 2006 at 14:28:11 Pacific
Subject: Pet Hates - please enter CDOS: XP-PROCPU/Ram: 3200/1024/6600GT |
Comment: Is is me or is having to put the CD in for a game extremely annoying? It takes ages, wears out your CD drive, and you eventually lose / break the CD anyway How does everyone else manage this? Surely a system like STEAM (counterStrike) is the future?
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Response Number 1
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Name: Frosty
Date: January 13, 2006 at 16:32:42 Pacific
Subject: Pet Hates - please enter CD |
Reply: (edit)Use a virtual drive? Asus P4P800
P4 2.4c @ 3000 Mhz Zalman CNPS7000A-Cu HSF
ATI Radeon 9800 pro
1 GB OCZ pc 3500 ram
Sound Blaster audigy LS
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Name: jhunt303
Date: January 17, 2006 at 04:02:19 Pacific
Subject: Pet Hates - please enter CD |
Reply: (edit)Yeah, I used to do that but you often lose your network ability. (CnC Generals and Warcraft 3 for example went wrong)
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Name: Mattwizz3 (by mattwizz3)
Date: January 18, 2006 at 04:34:15 Pacific
Subject: Pet Hates - please enter CD |
Reply: (edit)AAAGGGHHH!! Steam is such a huge pile of crap, I cant put it into words how much I hate it. I would LOVE it if steam was not attached to HL2 and you just had to put in a CD or DVD instead. In 3 or more years when you go to freshly install your old copy of HL2 will the HL2 server still be there? It dosent seem likely that they are going to pay to keep servers running for 3+ year old games. It annoys me that I have to physically disconnect my computer from the router so I can play HL2 in offline mode so it dosent chew up my download limit. Also concider people on dial up, it would take several hours just to update it. (It also annoys me that you HAVE to update) Waiting for the game to be verifided and updated over the internet takes longer than the 9 seconds for a CD to be loaded and run up to speed...... I do that sometimes... Mattwizz3 : ) A7N8X-E Deluxe
Sempron 2600+ OC 2.2GHz
1Gb DDR400 Dual Channel
Maxtor SATA 200Gb/7200/8m
WDC IDE 80Gb/7200/8m
Damn Microsoft...
DIE STEAM DIE!
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Response Number 7
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Name: jhunt303
Date: January 19, 2006 at 06:38:18 Pacific
Subject: Pet Hates - please enter CD |
Reply: (edit)Ha, yes, please only take the Steam engine as an example! Merely a quick ping to the server on install is generally all that is needed. It's what all the big developer software does (Delphi, DreamWeaver etc.), why should games be so special!
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