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STEAM - announcements, updates and WIN
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Slightly Live
Dirty tag dodger
Nice, the patch seems to fix a particular issue I was having playing the DOW2 beta.
Now, if they only they would respond to my hijacked account ticket. =(
Now, if they only they would respond to my hijacked account ticket. =(
MaritalWheat
Member
Just a quick FYI, that stuff is usually just maintenance when you can't log in so no need to freak or change your password.Fireblend said:
If you're signed in, your friends list will be unavailable and shit w/ a little 'down for maintenance' message, and if you're not logged in you won't be able to--if its just routine stuff though, everything is back to normal within 10-15 minutes so waiting it out is best!fushi said:
Yeah it does kinda suck, but I can't complain, I got a crazy deal.
I bought TF2 a long time ago when there was a deal for it ($19.99, which is the regular price right now though), but now I gave in and bought Orange Box, and I thought I'd be able to gift TF2 to a friend but that's not the case. Again, can't complain because in the end I spent $50 for Orange Box, which isn't bad, and many paid that price for it.
I'd buy UT3 right now but I have an issue that I'm hoping you fellows would be able to help me with.
I have a 200Gb HDD that is my base drive with my Windows and Program Files on it. It's near full. I also have a 500Gb HDD with all my other stuff.
Can I somehow move my Steam directory over to the 500Gb and have it all work fine or will it screw up because my registry or something has to be updated as well?
Obviously the first thing I should be doing is transferring non-critical stuff over to my 500Gb drive, and I've done that and I've freed up 10Gb, but then I bought Orange Box and now I'm down to 5Gb or so. The real culprit is my music stuff (software/samples) that I make music with, but I need all of that on my 200Gb drive.
BobJustBob
Member
Thank god! I've had that for like a year.
# Added ability to specify content download region (in Settings->downloads)
# Added ability to specify content download region (in Settings->downloads)
# Added ability to specify content download region (in Settings->downloads)
# Added ability to specify content download region (in Settings->downloads)
# Added ability to specify content download region (in Settings->downloads)
# Added ability to specify content download region (in Settings->downloads)
# Added ability to specify content download region (in Settings->downloads)
# Added ability to specify content download region (in Settings->downloads)
# Added ability to specify content download region (in Settings->downloads)
WHY IS NO ONE ON TO THIS LIKE BOXXY TO 4CHAN (God, sorry for that, late night youtubing does that to you)
Almost every area is available! Someone try this to a game wasn't available at first! UK with Mass Effect ie.
# Added ability to specify content download region (in Settings->downloads)
# Added ability to specify content download region (in Settings->downloads)
# Added ability to specify content download region (in Settings->downloads)
# Added ability to specify content download region (in Settings->downloads)
# Added ability to specify content download region (in Settings->downloads)
# Added ability to specify content download region (in Settings->downloads)
# Added ability to specify content download region (in Settings->downloads)
# Added ability to specify content download region (in Settings->downloads)
WHY IS NO ONE ON TO THIS LIKE BOXXY TO 4CHAN (God, sorry for that, late night youtubing does that to you)
Almost every area is available! Someone try this to a game wasn't available at first! UK with Mass Effect ie.
BobJustBob
Member
BobJustBob said:
Haha, holy shit. I restarted Steam to apply the update and immediately five different games started updating. For so fucking long I've had this.
CabbageRed
Member
BobJustBob said:
I'd honostly just assumed that I had imagined the days of of auto-updates.
brain_stew
Member
M3wThr33 said:
Cool, now I can find out how much of my week I really waste playing PC games instead of doing work. Uh-oh, this isn't going to look pretty.
Mine hasn't updated yet.
MNC said:
If this means EA games in the UK, then happy times are here. Hopefully this lets fellow Steam users on the continent to take advantage of the great Steam pricing in the UK.
Edit: And just as I type that Steam goes off and updates itself. Damn I love the Steam platform, it just nails so much, Microsoft could do a whole lot worse than let Steam takeover as the platform for GFW, it accomplishes almost evrything that initiative set out to do.
Edit again: Hmm, the setting doesn't seem to affect the store, guess it just changes which servers you download your content from.
Slightly Live
Dirty tag dodger
I got my account back, success!
It's currently disabled! =(
Well it seems I'm half way there. I'm assuming the disability is part of the account recovery process so I think, and hope, it should be over soon.
It's currently disabled! =(
Well it seems I'm half way there. I'm assuming the disability is part of the account recovery process so I think, and hope, it should be over soon.
CabbageRed
Member
Europa Universalis III Complete, Knights of Honor, and Take Command - Second Manassas have all hit Steam. What's odd is that I was just hunting for EU3 Complete a few days ago but decided to hold off until it hit Gamer's Gate, it hadn't occurred to me that Steam would get it first. Plus I was just reading up on Knights of Honor, due to the Crytek news and was planning on buying it soon. Long story short: my thoughts control Steam.
Europa Universalis (1) is a buck at Gamer's Gate, for those interested.
Europa Universalis (1) is a buck at Gamer's Gate, for those interested.
G2Play.pl is back up and working again, seems they've sold out of Left 4 Dead keys though: http://g2play.pl/l/en.html
Chiaroscuro
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Nekofrog said:
For me it is still working:
http://g2play.pl/index.php?producer_filter=1
And they still have L4D keys, although the price is now EUR 11.95.
My copy is working fine as well. I am tempting in picking up The Orange Box.
Chiaroscuro
Member
I have just received an e-mail from that Polish guys:
"Dear friends
As you might have noticed our website experienced major difficulties in the last few days. This was unfortnatley due to hardware issues by our hosting service provider. However we are now back again with all data restored.
Moreover we have enough Left 4 Dead on stock now at the same very good price! We are now working on delivering yourLeft 4 Dead reservations.
Best Regards
G2PLAY Team"
"Dear friends
As you might have noticed our website experienced major difficulties in the last few days. This was unfortnatley due to hardware issues by our hosting service provider. However we are now back again with all data restored.
Moreover we have enough Left 4 Dead on stock now at the same very good price! We are now working on delivering yourLeft 4 Dead reservations.
Best Regards
G2PLAY Team"
Chiaroscuro
Member
Cday said:
There is another thread for the weekend deals: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=348324
Anyway, I went up buying L4D from that Polish site. Half the price from the half-price steam deal.
I need Fallout 3, please include it in the next weekend deal.
Huh, weird. I just formatted my computer, and made sure to backup my steamapps folder. Now, although it did work and I can play everything just fine, the status seems to be stuck in "Download starting...". There's obviously nothing to download, tried reinstalling steam, deleting the folder except for the steamapps folder and steam.exe... nothing. Anyone know if there's any fix? Anyway I'd rather have this than re-download all my games...
CrookedRain
Member
Did you try pausing and resuming the downloads?Fireblend said:
Yeah. It pauses and "starts resuming" but never goes any further. I know if it's updating, I can double click the game and a window will popup with the update progress, but in this case that just launches the game.CrookedRain said:
Actually, I just tried verifying the integrity and Left 4 Dead went back to ready. Curiously, that same trick won't fix Portal
ElectricBlue187
Member
Where is my Steam Cloud?
seriously
WHERE IS IT?!
seriously
WHERE IS IT?!
I had that problem once, too, and I just ended up redownloading everything.Fireblend said:Yeah. It pauses and "starts resuming" but never goes any further. I know if it's updating, I can double click the game and a window will popup with the update progress, but in this case that just launches the game.
Actually, I just tried verifying the integrity and Left 4 Dead went back to ready. Curiously, that same trick won't fix Portal
Then the next time I reinstalled Windows, it all worked perfectly.
Seems to be a bit of a crapshoot. O:
A Twisty Fluken
Member
Has anyone tried to buy L4D keys from G2play recently? I keep trying and it looks like it's crapping out when paypal is trying to send me back to g2play to finish the transaction. Anyone else run into this?
As probably noted elsewhere, Puzzle Quest Galatrix is out. $20 USD.
Also, SlamIt Pinball Big Score came out yesterday. I don't suppose anyone bought it? I love pinball, but there's no reviews - although I suppose at $5 I can take a chance on it.
Also, SlamIt Pinball Big Score came out yesterday. I don't suppose anyone bought it? I love pinball, but there's no reviews - although I suppose at $5 I can take a chance on it.
brain_stew
Member
Remy said:
Ooh, i was just thinking yesterday that Steam needed some video pinball. Impressions people, stat.
Anyone here using Vista 64? I bought a few games about 6 months ago and was able to install them but a couple wouldn't launch (went to a black screen, stayed there), and reinstalling didn't help. I then started getting really weird things happening on my computer, like things "not responding" and a few blue screens - one of which nearly made me have to reinstall windows....needless to say, I uninstalled Steam and since then haven't had a single problem on my computer. I assume that the problems were coming from Steam but am not sure if there is anything I can do about it or not - I really want to play the games I bought!
Dr. Zoidberg
Member
Mudo said:
I'm using V64 and Steam. I don't have any problems. However, I ONLY load up Steam when I am playing a game. I never allow Steam (or pretty much anything else) to start with Windows and just sit there, possilbly leading to problems. If you were having issues during a Steam game, that could be any number of causes that might not be related to the client.
Is anyone else having issues making purchases from Steam? I've been trying to buy Puzzle Quest: Galactrix and after telling me that an unknown error had occurred with my payment, I can't add the game to my cart anymore. I also can't log in to the Steam forums or Support. Support keeps telling me that my username/email does not exist.
EDIT: Disregard that, seems to work now.
EDIT: Disregard that, seems to work now.
I went in for SlamIt Pinball and Puzzle Quest. I think I spent more time with SlamIt tonight.
So long as you know you're only getting one table, it's a safe buy. The graphics/physics/sounds are all solid - the ball has good weight to it. There are a lot of modes (12 full modes and 8 mini-modes, according to the website), and the table flows well.
There's also some interesting unique features. The "SlamIt" controls for nudging are amusing (you just mash the keyboard); there's an Internet Ranking system; there's actually four characters that apparently have "different abilities".
I'm pretty happy with it, and for $5 I'm not sure how people couldn't be.
So long as you know you're only getting one table, it's a safe buy. The graphics/physics/sounds are all solid - the ball has good weight to it. There are a lot of modes (12 full modes and 8 mini-modes, according to the website), and the table flows well.
There's also some interesting unique features. The "SlamIt" controls for nudging are amusing (you just mash the keyboard); there's an Internet Ranking system; there's actually four characters that apparently have "different abilities".
I'm pretty happy with it, and for $5 I'm not sure how people couldn't be.
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