Javaman said:
I would totally buy Sam and Max complete for that price but I'm waiting for the glorious return of the TellTale everything pack for $50. Hopefully it'll come back during the summer or winter sales.
As I sit here, I have it in my cart, and I'm fighting every instinct to finish the transaction. Ever since I missed the last Telltale complete pack sale, back in what, last summer sale, or Christmas '09 sale I've held out buying anything Telltale.
This one is killing me not finalizing the transaction. I don't even need BTTF:The Game to be part of the complete pack, I just wanted all the strong bad/wallace&gromit/monkey island all in a complete pack. So now, I have to decide to either buy or pray they have it during the summer sale when I still have a decent online connection.
Syphon Filter said:
I got a question about the Steam Backup Feature. First what is better to use a disk or external hdd? Also can i back up any of my games or is it specific to certain games? And last how much faster is it compared to re downloading it? Do you just install the game?
I have all my games backed up using the Steam back up utility, 493 gigs worth. They are all on a secondary drive at the moment, but I plan on also burning them to dvds in the future because I'm paranoid about hard drive failure. You can backup any game on Steam, I've never ran into any issues backing up and then testing the backups for flaws, and it's much faster than downloading them again.
DJ_Lae said:
I used to use the backup feature - now I just go into my Steam folder and copy a particular game's folder onto my network drive, and copy it back into Steam when I want to play it again. You may have to restart Steam to get it to see the files, though.
I find the backup process takes forever and doesn't compress the game much either, but maybe I'm the only one who does it this way.
Backing up for me takes less than 8 minutes for 90% of the games. Compression rates are different for different games I guess. I was pretty impressed with Dragon Age Origin Ultimate Edition when I backed it up. It went from an initial download of about 24 gigs to a back up of 13 gigs. With that said, some games the compressed size isn't impressive. Just moving the Steamapps folders is fine to, but I had planned on moving backups to dvds eventually so it's just easier using the backup, less files to split up.
They have a free download period between 2am and 7am though so I download the big stuff during that period. I have a download manager set up that will start up Steam (which I already have the game set to start downloading on) and then shut down my computer at 7am so I can download the full time without actually being present. Usually, I can get about 2.5 to 3 gigs a night so it takes a long time for really big stuff. It's a pain to work around though. Oh for the days when I had DSL!
