Half Life 2 preload has started.

Bah, it's hidden in one of those threads... I see......
halflife2preload.jpg
 
Fprget that other thread. Preloading has started game will be out soon.

I don't have an option in steam to preload this. Do I Need counterstrike??!?!?
 
ManaByte said:
Servers are too busy for any more preloads it says.

SORRY, SERVER IS TOO BUSY TO PLAY HALF LIFE 2.

I hope that doesn't happen. :(

Otherwise I may be relegated to playing lock on multiplayer sweetness.
 
Tenguman said:
it's worth noting it's 3 days late from the original delayed date :P

good ol' valve

It's gonna be another 3 days before I can even start preloading. Fucking Valve make that expensive phone call.
 
Was kicking along at 1Mb/s for a while, now it's only like a pitiful 200 Kb/s.

Why valve uses bits, I don't know.
 
I guess I'm crazy in that I can deal with getting it 6 hours late by going to the store and buying it.
 
How's it dumb?

Instead of waiting 3 days for a fucking copy to ship up here I can have it instantly as it releases.

And remember what happens with a very anticipated game and delays in arrival times at stores (see DOOM 3).
 
"A locked copy of Half-Life 2 is now on your computer"

Okay so you're done yet you still can't play. I agree with bog, dumbest thing ever.

Do you have a 100% legal copy Half-Life 2 on your computer right now? No? Ok :D
 
it's not like the executables are in there. or the libraries. just texture and map data, as well as most likely any irrelevant sound info
 
DopeyFish said:
it's not like the executables are in there. or the libraries. just texture and map data, as well as most likely any irrelevant sound info

Most of that stuff is stored in the file for each game. Steam is the executable :)
 
ManaByte said:
Most of that stuff is stored in the file for each game. Steam is the executable :)

Ahhhh wrong.

Steam is the wrapper, it joins the dots if you will.


CS:S Beta runs on an executable called "hl2.exe"
 
SCORE!

It's downloading quite fast.

10%

johnjohnson said:
Can someone please explain to me what this pre-loading is?

It's pretty much the download of HL2 static assets (textures/sounds/etc.) via their delivery system Steam.
 
Does this mean that you can download this stuff and keep it on your harddisk until the game comes out so that you only have to download the remaining stuff?
 
johnjohnson said:
Does this mean that you can download this stuff and keep it on your harddisk until the game comes out so that you only have to download the remaining stuff?

In essence, yes. They'll most likely upload all the assets that won't change and whenever they have a gold, they'll upload the rest of the game. They'll enable you to play it, I imagine, at release date.
 
OMG - all textures in the preload look like this:
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All wait and no play makes FriScho a bored boy. All wait and no play makes FriScho a bored boy. All wait and no play makes FriScho a bored boy. All wait and no play makes FriScho a bored boy. All wait and no play makes FriScho a bored boy. All wait and no play makes FriScho a bored boy. All wait and no play makes FriScho a bored boy. All wait and no play makes FriScho a bored boy. All wait and no play makes FriScho a bored boy. All wait and no play makes FriScho a bored boy. All wait and no play makes FriScho a bored boy.
 
WOAH! that's an awesome texture! it's like, high resolution and everything! I can even read the text! awesome! new technology! w00t!
 
You'd rather they used *all* their available bandwidth just for HL2 preloads?

You know you'll have it pre-loaded by the beginning of September anyway.

Personally I'd rather they left that 5Gb/s alone so I can continue to play DoD & CS:Source while the preload is happening :P
 
Freeburn said:
You'd rather they used *all* their available bandwidth just for HL2 preloads?

You know you'll have it pre-loaded by the beginning of September anyway.

Personally I'd rather they left that 5Gb/s alone so I can continue to play DoD & CS:Source while the preload is happening :P

50% at least.

I think I am getting busy msg due to a limitation in NA servers. The global servers are not stressed one bit.

Edit: I think it is just content servers. Not game servers.
 
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