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STEAM announcements & updates 2013 - Year of the SteamBox
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If anyone was interested in using a wireless 360 controller with the chatpad, some people who aren't me put some effort into it, and it looks like there will be at least two options for that:
http://code.google.com/p/chatpad-super-driver/issues/detail?id=46
http://code.google.com/p/chatpad-super-driver/issues/detail?id=46
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
The question isn't "is it worth $4", it's "given that you waited until now to consider buying it, would you be likely to play it before it's a lower price in a future sale?"
faceless007
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I might be the only one in the world who actually reads these things, because it's amusing how bullshit they are.
No using your Steam games on multiple computers, folks. (Almost every game's EULA has similar language.)
No, that'll still occur, for reasons explained here. It seems the recent backend update to Steam checks for existing prerequisties and skips the installation if found, meaning if you've installed a game before, you no longer need to sit through the DirectX/.NET/Visual C++ installations should you reinstall later -- they'll still be required when installing a different game, as it may use different versions of the files.
What? It's not some flaw of DirectX's that Steam chooses to have every game install the specific version of DirectX it was written for, and it's not a bad decision by Steam either. Better an extra two minutes of install time to ensure less bugs.
Visualante2
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In Valve's attempts to be a "distributor" they've buckled under their core values and screwed their customers. Steam is becoming a mine field for DRM. I feel bad for people who don't read threads like this and think "oh neat I liked that game" not knowing that it's probably easier to just play the original.
It's about time they showed some spine and stop authorising publishers who do stuff like that.
It's about time they showed some spine and stop authorising publishers who do stuff like that.
So for whatever reason I can't Dota 2 to patch; I got to about 91% and then the game refuses to continue downloading. I've restarted steam multiple times. This happened when the client patched last week too, and the only way I could fix it was by re installing both dota 2 and steam, which I really don't want to have to do every damn patch. Any ideas?
What the hell are you going on about? The FF7 thing?
Thanks for telling me. Apparently I had other items waiting for me too but I can't tell from what. I want to guess some of them are from Xcom since I see a guile haircut.
edit: Why is 1 item that I listed not showing up when I manually check? All of the other ones are showing but for some reason I have 1 that isn't, but on the market home page under my listed items it shows up.
SapientWolf
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Actually, it is exactly that.
Guys, this is crazy, but I wanted to post it anyway:
- Bunch of M$ games showing up on Steam database (Halo 3?)
- Age of Empires 2 HD to have Steamworks
- GFWL to be discontinued? Likely.
- Valve working on Steambox
- Valve lets a bunch of people go.
- M$ helps Dell go private.
- Piston will be Windows
So... Steam to come with all Windows machines + Dell distributes 'official' Steambox. Linux threat was a negotiating tactic.
- Bunch of M$ games showing up on Steam database (Halo 3?)
- Age of Empires 2 HD to have Steamworks
- GFWL to be discontinued? Likely.
- Valve working on Steambox
- Valve lets a bunch of people go.
- M$ helps Dell go private.
- Piston will be Windows
So... Steam to come with all Windows machines + Dell distributes 'official' Steambox. Linux threat was a negotiating tactic.
RibbedHero
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So question for anyone who bought Don't Starve from the devs (Humble Store), do the two Steam copies they give you also net you the TF2 promo items? I don't really care too much about getting the TF2 items, but my brother was curious and I was going to split it with him, and he kinda wants the items as well.
I don't actually understand why this is such an issue. That's how DirectX works? You're supposed to have the install for the DX Libraries that the game was built with. That's kind of the point of DirectX.
You'll always end up with multiple copies of it installed, because each version of it has different stuff that games do or do not use.
What sucks is that some games, for some weird reason, try to install it every single time you run the game. They'll "check" if you have the proper DX version installed. What I understood from the Patch Note is that this specific issue is being addressed.
over 40 different variations under DX9 alone seems incredibly excessive. I'm sure there's a logic to it that I'm not understanding fully, but, even then, that hardly changes the idea that there are at least 40 branches of DX9 out there.
exmachina64
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GAF, which one is better: F1 2010 or F1 2011?
And if you have 40 games that run off a different Direct X, you'll have 40 DirectX versions installed.
Again, that's how it works. It's a "fault" of the .DLL system. That's why your WINSX folder is only a couple gigs when you just install windows, but then it balloons to 13-15 gigs after a while: it has a copy of every version of every DLL needed to run your apps.
That way, every application can come with it's own set of DLLs and be transparent to the end user: shit just works, because it comes with whatever shit it needs. Same version DLL can be shared, but the app has to provide that DLL if it's not available.
The alternative, dependency packs on Linux, is a
But that's not the point of this conversation.
You would be correct. Both copies hold items.
Thanks!
taken care of, thanks demones!
It's definitely a case of it is what it is with me, as, like you say, the end experience is transparent enough. I don't think Linux's alternative of maintaining a personal library of DLLs is the only alternative, just the other known.
Improvements in this space would actually be something interesting to hear about.
BoosterDuck
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I'll take an extra Don't Starve copy for $6 too!
Let's do this. (talk to you on steam tomorrow, maybe?)
This too. Sounds great, 3 bucks is too little.
dude I forgot we talked earlier and totaly bailed out on you, already got it now
im evil like that as it turns out
plenty of people here must wanna get it so dont get all puppy face
What would that mean? Any source?
Like, we will still have to log-in and the drm would still be working or something else?
this is why latin america is broken man, there's no love, it's all backstabbing and games and shit
How so? The way I understand it, later builds of DirectX would likely work just fine with games written for previous builds, but just to try and ensure as error free an experience as possible, it makes the most sense to install the specific DX build along with the game. Not so much a flaw of DirectX's but Steam being extra cautious. And having played PC games since the early 80s, automated shit like this is a godsend. It used to be way, wayyy more random to get a PC game up and running successfully in the pre-Steam days.
IIRC, Valve has ported L4D's content to L4D2, so unless you're a purist it's completely unnecessary.
Well there's something to said for L4D's purity. I'm not a huge fan of playing the L4D campaigns with L4D2s monsters and weapons. I prefer playing the originals. But if you don't care about that then yeah it doesn't really matter.
I was also reading something about in Valves Extended Mutator beta someone making a L4D1 style mod for L4D2 so be interested to see more about that.
Any Saoirse is Best Saoirse.
Absolutely. I myself greatly prefer 1.6 to Source and GO, but unfortunately it's all but dead here, unless you're one for awful server-side mods.
I'd forgotten that Valve opened up L4D2. Until recently it was a point of reference for those worrying that Valve's support for mods was beginning to wane.
While Microsoft hasn't officially discontinued Games for Windows Live it's pretty clear that it's dead since Microsoft is releasing games on Steam using Steamworks instead of Games for Windows Live.
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This guy knows whats up.
3 hunters + 1 smoker = instant rage
+ Hunter damage is not nerfed in L4D1
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