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Goosemaster

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The load must be REALLY bad on these servers then. Back when I had a useable video card 2 wks ago I had Steam and CS up and running fairly quickly.
 
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TheeeChosenOne

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Steam is indeed a P.O.S!

I installed it yesterday and all it odes is lag, stall and crash when I try to play TFC--EVERY TIME!!


Guys: .......... DO WE REALLY NEED TO INSTALL STEAM? OR CAN WE JUST STAY AT CS 1.5? PLEASE ADVISE. THIS STEAM SOFTWARE SUCKS BALLS!!
 
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Hossenfeffer

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Originally posted by: TheeeChosenOne
Steam is indeed a P.O.S!

I installed it yesterday and all it odes is lag, stall and crash when I try to play TFC--EVERY TIME!!


Guys: .......... DO WE REALLY NEED TO INSTALL STEAM? OR CAN WE JUST STAY AT CS 1.5? PLEASE ADVISE. THIS STEAM SOFTWARE SUCKS BALLS!!
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On the contrary, I kinda like it. Judging Steam when they're getting arguably their highest load isn't exactly fair. Give it a few days, make sure you've got things configured right and then judge away.
 
Tetsuo

Tetsuo

Lifer
Oct 20, 2002
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Fsck.. I get to the counterstrike menu, if I try to go to any of the menu;s on the left it just dies.. Steam sucks. It's like the whole game is run off the internet, like CS isn't even on your comp (even though it is)
 
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TheeeChosenOne

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Originally posted by: Tetsuo
Fsck.. I get to the counterstrike menu, if I try to go to any of the menu;s on the left it just dies.. Steam sucks. It's like the whole game is run off the internet, like CS isn't even on your comp (even though it is)
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i agree with that.
 
silverpig

silverpig

Lifer
Jul 29, 2001
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Originally posted by: Tetsuo
Fsck.. I get to the counterstrike menu, if I try to go to any of the menu;s on the left it just dies.. Steam sucks. It's like the whole game is run off the internet, like CS isn't even on your comp (even though it is)
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I got the spashscreen and freeze a few times, now I can look at servers and connect, but it gets stuck at the "verifying resources" part. It seems to get farther and farther along every time though...
 
ViRGE

ViRGE

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Oct 9, 1999
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Originally posted by: Hossenfeffer
Originally posted by: TheeeChosenOne
Steam is indeed a P.O.S!

I installed it yesterday and all it odes is lag, stall and crash when I try to play TFC--EVERY TIME!!


Guys: .......... DO WE REALLY NEED TO INSTALL STEAM? OR CAN WE JUST STAY AT CS 1.5? PLEASE ADVISE. THIS STEAM SOFTWARE SUCKS BALLS!!
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On the contrary, I kinda like it. Judging Steam when they're getting arguably their highest load isn't exactly fair. Give it a few days, make sure you've got things configured right and then judge away.
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On the contrary, I think it's extremely fair to judge Steam under such a high load. An auto-update based system like Steam is going to see a significant number of its users attempt to grab updates at once; all the active users(70K at any given point) are going to have to. While on any given day, there will be a handful of people buying a Valve game, or a handful of people playing it after having not played it for a while, this is a minority, and a group even the crappiest system can handle. A repeat of the Steam launch is not acceptable, the system must be able to handle a worst-case senario, otherwise as far as the users are concerned, the system has failed, and they can't play their games.
 
silverpig

silverpig

Lifer
Jul 29, 2001
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Seems as though the updates via steam (not new releases) go very quickly and smoothly. I only had to wait maybe 1 or 2 minutes for each of the 11 updates they did to 1.6 beta, and that was all downloading time, not crash time.
 
UNCjigga

UNCjigga

Lifer
Dec 12, 2000
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Only one question...is the 265.7MB torrented RAR file linked earlier the same thing as the 380MB steaminstall_cs file hosted over at fileplanet? Steam can't update SH*T on my box and I have a fairly decent 2mbit+ cable link. I've left it on all evening, all night, all day today and reconnected numerous times.

The Steam software itself is full of bugs (wasn't there a beta to fix these kinds of things?) and I'm losing a lot of respect for Valve. I exit and 10 minutes later notice the steam.exe process is still in use, using 22mb of memory. Update to CS keeps timing out...after the third retry I got a fatal exception call from steam.

Now I'm just trying to get the cache files with HL 1.1.1.2 and CS 1.6 elsewhere...fileplanet blows (unless you got $$$) and this RAR file seems on the small side (how does 380mb already compressed go down further to 265.7mb???)
 
hdeck

hdeck

Lifer
Sep 26, 2002
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wow, now i can't even get steam to open the majority of the time. then half the time it does, it freezes when i click "games," then if i can get passed that part it says "game unavailable" when i try and play cs.

damnit it was working yesterday!!!
 
silverpig

silverpig

Lifer
Jul 29, 2001
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Originally posted by: uncJIGGA
Only one question...is the 265.7MB torrented RAR file linked earlier the same thing as the 380MB steaminstall_cs file hosted over at fileplanet? Steam can't update SH*T on my box and I have a fairly decent 2mbit+ cable link. I've left it on all evening, all night, all day today and reconnected numerous times.

The Steam software itself is full of bugs (wasn't there a beta to fix these kinds of things?) and I'm losing a lot of respect for Valve. I exit and 10 minutes later notice the steam.exe process is still in use, using 22mb of memory. Update to CS keeps timing out...after the third retry I got a fatal exception call from steam.

Now I'm just trying to get the cache files with HL 1.1.1.2 and CS 1.6 elsewhere...fileplanet blows (unless you got $$$) and this RAR file seems on the small side (how does 380mb already compressed go down further to 265.7mb???)
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Yes it is the same as the fileplanet file. I got it in 1h 00m 45s via bit torrent, and that was without the stupid 86 minute lineup I was in over at fileplanet (my torrent finished before I even started downloading at fp).

I didn't actually need the files though as steam managed to update itself.
 
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clicknext

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Mar 27, 2002
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I got a very fast download on fileshack 2 days ago. It said 70 minute wait, but I only got 30 minutes. And then the download was maxed out at 100.
 
0roo0roo

0roo0roo

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Sep 21, 2002
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do the high res/poly models from csrealism.com work on this new cs 1.6? i haven't downloaded 1.6 yet.. and kinda put off by all the horror stories.
 
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clicknext

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Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
do the high res/poly models from csrealism.com work on this new cs 1.6? i haven't downloaded 1.6 yet.. and kinda put off by all the horror stories.
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Most custom models will work, but I've found that a lot of servers have restricted custom skins. So far I found one server that allows those, so I just went ahead and deleted all my customs. Oh well I guess defaults aren't THAT bad.

After installing, uninstalling, and reinstalling Steam about 5 times, it finally decided to work. After that it was all smooth sailing. Now it works fine, only problem is that it takes about 10 seconds to start, but I guess I can live with that. :p
 
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