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STEAM- Announcements & Updates 2011 Edition |OT2|

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morningbus

Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
Well, with today's daily deal being Hamilton's Great Adventure for $4.99, we again get to find out if you should be allowed to 1) have opinions and 2) have power of attorney over yourself.

Can't recommend enough.
 
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QuantumBro

Banned
Obsessed said:
I fucking give up on Chronicles of Riddick.

I'm just going to stay faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar away from games that make heavy use of OpenGL from now on.
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Wait do you have a dv6t or dv7t? If so there's a problem with the computer not being able to run opengl games on the graphics card, it runs them on integrated graphics. They fixed it though, you just need to update the bios.
dv6t bios: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/...dlc=en&lc=en&os=4063&product=5111980&sw_lang=
dv7t bios: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/...dlc=en&lc=en&os=4063&product=5112006&sw_lang=

Hopefully this works.
 
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plc268

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Yep I wouldn't expect another major sale until November 24-27 (thanksgiving weekend and black friday in the US).

Edit:

And if previous years were any indication, we might see a horror game sale on around October 31 (halloween).
 
Dice

Dice

Pokémon Parentage Conspiracy Theorist
I had an easy shot at that and passed it up because it's Darksiders. Hahahahahahaha.....
 
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Deleted member 10571

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zoner said:
Any chance Steam will ever let us add our own custom banners for non-Steam games a la album art in itunes?
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I can't remember how often I searched the Steam boards for this. I guess Steam just doesn't want to implement it.
 
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CornBurrito

Member
QuantumBro said:
Wait do you have a dv6t or dv7t? If so there's a problem with the computer not being able to run opengl games on the graphics card, it runs them on integrated graphics. They fixed it though, you just need to update the bios.
dv6t bios: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/...dlc=en&lc=en&os=4063&product=5111980&sw_lang=
dv7t bios: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/...dlc=en&lc=en&os=4063&product=5112006&sw_lang=

Hopefully this works.
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dv6t.

And sadly it didn't work. :(

Thanks for trying to help though.
 
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Glass Rebel

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I just saw Alien Swarm in my library and got sad, knowing that Valve might never touch that game again. I really enjoyed it and would love to see them make a full fledged sequel.
 
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Scythian

Member
So I have a problem with Source games (Team Fortress 2, Day of Defeat Source, etc.) because whenever I try to join a server it says "Server is not responding", but when I create a server and try to join again it works.

Does it have to do with Port Forwarding?
If so, I tried to open ports for Day of Defeat Source, but when I try to save changes my router says that the range between public ports must be less than 10, so I can't open them.
 
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Htown

STOP SHITTING ON MY MOTHER'S HEADSTONE
Glass Rebel said:
I just saw Alien Swarm in my library and got sad, knowing that Valve might never touch that game again. I really enjoyed it and would love to see them make a full fledged sequel.
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The point of Alien Swarm was to make it easy for fans to make campaigns and stuff, but I don't think it ever took off.
 
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Glass Rebel

Member
Htown said:
The point of Alien Swarm was to make it easy for fans to make campaigns and stuff, but I don't think it ever took off.
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I know and I also think they acknowledge that it failed but they could still do something with it instead of letting it rot.
 
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MRORANGE

Member
zoner said:
Any chance Steam will ever let us add our own custom banners for non-Steam games a la album art in itunes?
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Bufbaf said:
I can't remember how often I searched the Steam boards for this. I guess Steam just doesn't want to implement it.
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it's more of a incentive for you to buy the game from steam. Probally that's why they don't support it.
 
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QuantumBro

Banned
Obsessed said:
I did manually enable it. If I go to the CCC and switchable graphics it is clearly marked as High Performance. Unless I misunderstood the images it seems I'm just SOL.
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Oh I forgot to tell you to switch the graphics settings to fixed in the bios, then try manually enabling it.
 
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balladofwindfishes

Member
Glass Rebel said:
I just saw Alien Swarm in my library and got sad, knowing that Valve might never touch that game again. I really enjoyed it and would love to see them make a full fledged sequel.
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Some strings related to Alien Swarm are set to be translated recently, although nobody with access to them will tell me what they're specifically about.
 
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Firebrand

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All this Darksiders talk made me boot it up again, but even after adding some RAM it still kinda runs kinda crappy on my E8500/GTX260. The resolution setting does nothing for performance. Also can't get rid of that bloody mouse pointer that insists on centering itself in the menus despite me using a controller. / whine

Any config file tricks or something to boost performance?
 
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iNvid02

Member
Firebrand said:
All this Darksiders talk made me boot it up again, but even after adding some RAM it still kinda runs kinda crappy on my E8500/GTX260. The resolution setting does nothing for performance. Also can't get rid of that bloody mouse pointer that insists on centering itself in the menus despite me using a controller. / whine

Any config file tricks or something to boost performance?
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i forced vsync in nvidia inspector, nothing else really to improve performance.
 
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QuantumBro

Banned
Obsessed said:
I'm afraid to mess with my bios. Any chance you could give me a brief walkthrough?
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If you already installed the bios update all you have to do is press esc as the computer starts up then look for the switchable graphics setting and change it to fixed. Then save and exit.
 
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CornBurrito

Member
QuantumBro said:
If you already installed the bios update all you have to do is press esc as the computer starts up then look for the switchable graphics setting and change it to fixed. Then save and exit.
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Oh ok. Thank you.

edit:

Oh my god! You sir, have earned my eternal gratitude. Holy fucking shit I can finally play Amnesia, Chronicles, and all those other openGL games that gave me a shitton of problems before!

Thank you so much.
 
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jaundicejuice

Member
Fuck yeah, just beat Civ 5 on Emperor with a Diplomatic victory. I can't believe how much I completely dominated that game given that every other stab at Emperor has been so damned difficult. I was building wonders with impunity, aside from constant drive-by threats from Bismark didn't get invaded once. I was just raining nukes down on Germany towards the end there.

I've beaten every map size and type, explored every policy track and have now won the game through all possible victory conditions. The only things left to explore in the Civ 5 base game are beating it with the other leaders/civilizations and taking a run at the Immortal and then Deity difficulties. I'm sitting at 98 hours and I haven't even touched any of the DLC scenarios yet, although I did use Kamehameha and the Polynesians on a previous, failed Emperor run.

This game is pretty awesome.
 
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ChoklitReign

Member
TheExodu5 said:
ATi cards are notorious for having piss poor compatibility with OpenGL titles. I'm pretty sure IL-2 has been unplayable for a long time on ATi cards.
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Ouch, guess my next video card choice (460 or 6850) is close to final. I want to play IL-2 and Riddick.
 
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QuantumBro

Banned
Obsessed said:
Oh ok. Thank you.

edit:

Oh my god! You sir, have earned my eternal gratitude. Holy fucking shit I can finally play Amnesia, Chronicles, and all those other openGL games that gave me a shitton of problems before!

Thank you so much.
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Not a problem, glad to see that you can play all your games without issues now.
 
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Salsa

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any idea why im getting this on both of the games store pages when im well.. not in Europe? games should unlock today at midnight for me.. guess its just steam screwing up with the pages?
 
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Firebrand

Member
John Cook said:
Thank you to everyone for all the bug reports and excellent feedback on Steam Trade and friends list changes. Lots of great info, it's very helpful for us to see everyones reactions to changes made in Steam.

We've done another Steam client beta update today, with several more fixes: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showpost.php?p=24299239&postcount=1

Now it's time to get a lot more people involved in trading! We're getting very close now to making this beta Steam client a full public release. What we need your help with now is making sure the new functionality works as intended, and importantly that there are no regressions in existing functionality from the current public Steam client. Other bug reports and feedback are still helpful, but regressions are what we are looking hardest at right now.

As all the feedback is evidence for, this is just the start of a lot more Steam client updates involving both Trading and the Steam Community / Friends list. There are too many good ideas to list, but it's worth calling out a few items we want to address in the next release(s):
- Better tools for finding & starting trades
- Trading of CD-Keys
- Trading of real world currency
- More friends lists features, including more tagging
- More games hooked up to trading

We plan on releasing the Steam Client update to everyone this week, and start a new Steam Client beta next week.
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http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showpost.php?p=24885258&postcount=720
 
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zombieshavebrains

I have not used cocaine
Thank you to everyone for all the bug reports and excellent feedback on Steam Trade and friends list changes. Lots of great info, it's very helpful for us to see everyones reactions to changes made in Steam.

We've done another Steam client beta update today, with several more fixes: http://forums.steampowered.com/forum...39&postcount=1

Now it's time to get a lot more people involved in trading! We're getting very close now to making this beta Steam client a full public release. What we need your help with now is making sure the new functionality works as intended, and importantly that there are no regressions in existing functionality from the current public Steam client. Other bug reports and feedback are still helpful, but regressions are what we are looking hardest at right now.

As all the feedback is evidence for, this is just the start of a lot more Steam client updates involving both Trading and the Steam Community / Friends list. There are too many good ideas to list, but it's worth calling out a few items we want to address in the next release(s):
- Better tools for finding & starting trades
- Trading of CD-Keys
- Trading of real world currency
- More friends lists features, including more tagging
- More games hooked up to trading

We plan on releasing the Steam Client update to everyone this week, and start a new Steam Client beta next week.
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Comfy couch beta confirmed.
 
Dice

Dice

Pokémon Parentage Conspiracy Theorist
mAcOdIn said:
Lol, this is getting a little silly for a game client.
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Unofficial gambling on matches confirmed.

That or "Fill my steam wallet for Christmas plz"
 
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VGChampion

Member
Kind of tempted to get Darksiders for $5 from THQ but I just don't know. Got a new gaming PC coming my way on the 15th but I already own it for the PS3 that I shelved because I got busy and never got back around to it. How much better is it on the PC?
 
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