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STEAM announcements & updates 2012 Thread 4 - winter seal is coming
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MagicWithEarvin
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Xbox 360 wired gamepad is best gamepad for PC, IMO.
You can buy a Wireless 360 Controller for Windows pack, that comes with a USB receiver for it. You would still need to buy a separate play&charge kit though.
Glass Rebel
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The BioShock Infinite facebook group shared some codes for LittleBigPlanet DLC and even though I've only taken one game from the Steam threads I immediately went into copy-paste mode. I'm a monster.
pock3tmonster
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I bought a wired 360 controller and use it both on my PC and 360 console. I'd highly suggest this option just for the convenience of not having to recharge the wireless controller. The cord is very long too.
Baconsaurus Rex
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I have the wireless + receiver combo and there's really no big advantage over using a wired controller. It works just fine, though the extra money it costs is spent better at the xmas sale
Good choice. Although I've never been bitten by a lousy receiver. Still, unless somebody is absolutely dead set against wires, the wired is superior in every important category.
Is it Far Cry 3 time?! Aren't you excited?!
Or any time DOTA 2 updated, or I assume any time something with the new content system updated.
Luckily I never got Dungeon Defenders...There's also the slight side benefit that wired works with my cobbled-together chatpad drivers, and I still haven't tried reverse engineering my wireless controller (still in the package with the receiver).
Plus it's worth pointing out that the wire is quite long and of decent quality, so you shouldn't have any problems if you're within like 8 feet of your PC if I recall correctly.
Oops. Thought it was already out with the way you guys were talking about it. A December 4th release date would need some major bomba sauce for my numbers to happen. Although at this point, who knows. But I'm taking the 50 percent (best - worst case) off the table.
Stallion Free
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Woah man, that's the first I have ever heard of that. You should totally start a thread.
I H8 Memes
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Is Farcry 3 going to launch through Uplay?
Delusibeta
Banned
Known bug for Dota 2, and Dota 2 only, as I've yet to hear complaints about other games. Basically, it doesn't like certain hard drives.
BoosterDuck
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Unfortunately, yes. Which is why most every outlet aside from Steam is only selling Uplay keys.
SteveWinwood
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Sarcasm.
Was this game on sale during the black day?
changed it.
oh btw wilflare is awesome:
thanks for the game, totally unexpected
Rickenslacker
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Super Hexagon is tapping into my inner bullet time. A minute's never felt so long.
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
Maybe you could petition your MP to enact some draconian nanny-state law that would remind you, possibly by placing a tax if you forget to look at the site.
Thanks, I'm glad to hear it's only DOTA 2. I kept being afraid of it happening with other games.
This is now my 4th post in the new Steam thread. Isn't it fair that I get to make a few posts too?
On an unrelated note, I just saw the Miasmata screenshots. That actually looks really pretty. Has anyone tried playing it yet?
StopMakingSense
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I just hate there is no way still to limit your download speeds. Steam always bogs down my network.
Rickenslacker
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I think I got it with CS:GO the last time that updated too. I fear for the day that every game update brings my computer to its knees.
I originally had a Wired controller but then it busted.
Just be careful how you treat it when you put it away, I was wrapping the cord around the controller and it must have been too tight, because now my controller connects and disconnets all the time and it makes it useless.
So now I just use a Wireless controller with standard AA rechargeable batteries, no need to get an official play & charge kit, they suck arse and die after about 6 months. And I can confirm per JaseC's post that unofficial knock-off wireless recievers are fine, been using mine for a few months.
Stallion Free
Cock Encumbered
This is now my 4th post in the new Steam thread. Isn't it fair that I get to make a few posts too?
I announced early on in the thread that I am going to take the crown. What else were you expecting? At least a quarter of my posts aren't about Dota 2 putting a rape culture on hard drives for certain special victims.
Ubi's piss-poor post-release support is so profoundly infuriating. There's a mission in AssCreedBro where the full sync requirement is to kill your targets using the assassin recruits, but apparently there's a bug that causes this to be marked as failed if they're detected or use throwing knives.
Wow, Steam is so weird right now
THE FUTURE IS NOW
PREV/NEXT
alright so help me with this steam gaf
I have everything Steam related on my HDD, except for the game im currently playing on my SSD.
the SSD stores just that one game, some software and the OS. My PC boots super fast because of it but the Steam client takes a shitload to boot up, the cache is terrible, and the hard drive pretty much cries with noise because of it.
How would I go about moving JUST the Steam client to the SSD, but leave all the games on my HDD steamapps folder, without having to reinstall anything?
I have everything Steam related on my HDD, except for the game im currently playing on my SSD.
the SSD stores just that one game, some software and the OS. My PC boots super fast because of it but the Steam client takes a shitload to boot up, the cache is terrible, and the hard drive pretty much cries with noise because of it.
How would I go about moving JUST the Steam client to the SSD, but leave all the games on my HDD steamapps folder, without having to reinstall anything?
I don't think you can...unless you want to manually SteamMover every single game onto the HDD, or fiddle with Steam's own "where should I install the game" feature.
Odd that you have this problem. I have Steam installed on a 1.5TB WD Caviar Black, and I've never had it particularly bogged down by anything Steam happens to be doing.
well my 1.5tb samsung is 5400rpm, but it still seems oddly excessive. It takes a long while.
StopMakingSense
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Steam is probably updating.
Anyone else here on Mac having Steam troubles? I hope to god it gets an update soon because ever since an update about a month ago Steam had been completely fucked for me. Windows/Notifications/Pop-ups are all completely broken.
I posted about it on the Steam forums and a bunch of people are experiencing the same thing but no one had heard any acknowledgment of the problem. Has anyone here heard anything?
I posted about it on the Steam forums and a bunch of people are experiencing the same thing but no one had heard any acknowledgment of the problem. Has anyone here heard anything?
If the HDD "cries with noise", it's probably on its way out.
likely, but its been doing it for a while and it holds like a champ. 0 issues/noise during games or any other type of loading.
im talking every time Ive launched Steam for the last year or so.
Oh that? That particular case is usually evident by the Steam icon in the notifications part of the taskbar. If you start up Steam and nothing apparently happens, but there's the miniature Steam icon with the "..." in the notifications area, then it's just downloading an client update.
Don't know if that's the situation he's talking about though.
StopMakingSense
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Steam does update a LOT. But yeah, if it's every single time, then I am not sure.
It's taken a year to become an issue?
nah, but it was tolerable when I didnt have an SSD to compare
that shit ruins everything
I think Portal 2 uses the exact same file system, and is prone to the same thing, but it updates so infrequently people don't seem to really notice. Putting Dota 2 on a SSD fixed the problems with updating, so if Valve can't come up with a proper solution sooner, at least time will fix it as SSDs become more common.
You could try, as you mentioned just before, installing Steam itself to the SSD and seeing if the problem goes away. It's possible that, say, the cached files Steam uses (e.g. game icons) are on buggered sectors.
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