Thats neat! I dont remember anything about HL2 going gold. Has it yet?
Nevertheless, Im still stoked about it. I have to say I think its going to be better than Doom3. I didnt think so before, but now that I have completed Doom3 I wished there was more scenery in it. The same old dark cramped claustrophobic corridores grew tiresome tward the end.
Just to be clear, the cache is 500MB compressed on the wire, which is the number we track closest as it's the amount of data that will be moved across your internet connection.
Uncompressed, the files in this preload are around 1GB. For Half-Life 2 to run, they have to be in this state. The first preload event contains most of the textures that Half-Life 2 needs to run.
This is the first of a number of preload events. We'll be adding more data to the preload over the next couple of weeks.
Groovy. Good to know my ATI voucher is useless though. I don't like paying for things I'll never have a material copy of, you know? Steam could close down at any time.
If you want to sell your ATI voucher I'd be more than willing to take it off your hands thraxy . I need 4 copies of HL2 at my house (already got 1 ATI coupon) and only plan on buying 1 physical copy.
I've always wondered (well, since I understood what 'preload meant, which I learned today ) why they bothered, as it would be cracked right away anyhow... And when the final release comes out, do they just send the decryption key or something...? How does that work?
The second phase of the Half-Life 2 preload begins to Steam account holders today.
This will allow users to download the majority of the audio of Half-Life 2 in encrypted form. No purchase is required to pre-load Half-Life 2, but is required to activate the game. The moment the game is made available, those who have pre-loaded and purchased Half-Life 2 via Steam will be ready to start playing right away.
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Close and restart steam.
But i am in the UK so the servers are usually less clogged.
Nevertheless, Im still stoked about it. I have to say I think its going to be better than Doom3. I didnt think so before, but now that I have completed Doom3 I wished there was more scenery in it. The same old dark cramped claustrophobic corridores grew tiresome tward the end.
Excuse my spelling.
But the rumours are pointing to a mid september release.
Uncompressed, the files in this preload are around 1GB. For Half-Life 2 to run, they have to be in this state. The first preload event contains most of the textures that Half-Life 2 needs to run.
This is the first of a number of preload events. We'll be adding more data to the preload over the next couple of weeks.
http://www.forumplanet.com/planethalflife/topic.asp?fid=2348&tid=1467376
Well if valve closed down it would just go piracy mad anyway.
So you're going to pirate it :|
Yes you can get ATI to send you a copy but i think it takes nearrly 4 weeks for it to make it's way back to you.
If valve and steam went do i would imagine vivendi would take over the server or valve would just unlock the game.
does that make you uncomfortable?
They make software to put food on the table and keep jobs and you want to steal that from them?
what?
They don't pre load any .exe's or .dll's
What i meant is theivery is bad mmmk?
The second phase of the Half-Life 2 preload begins to Steam account holders today.
This will allow users to download the majority of the audio of Half-Life 2 in encrypted form. No purchase is required to pre-load Half-Life 2, but is required to activate the game. The moment the game is made available, those who have pre-loaded and purchased Half-Life 2 via Steam will be ready to start playing right away.