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Valve Releases Counter-Strike 1.6 Installer

Posted by simoniker on from the all-steamed-up dept.

Thanks to Blue's News for pointing out that Valve has released the Counter-Strike 1.6 installer for Steam, the broadband delivery platform for which "over 200,000 new accounts have been created" since its official launch on Friday. The 379mb install, helpful for those who can't get swift downloads from Steam itself, is available from Gamer's Hell, Worthplaying, and FilePlanet (reg. required).

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  1. Steam is Crap and here to stay by Jthon · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It turns out that Valve will be demolishing the WON server network and will require all customers who wish to play online to use steam. From the HLDS_ANNOUNCE list valve runs: Q: Is WON going away? A: Yes, once we have completed the rollover we will slowly remove parts of the WON system as they become obsolete. Not only that steam has really high system requirements. Min 1GHZ machine as opposed to halflife's 133mhz requirement. That's 10 times faster than you need for the original! Even the boxed version of CS only required 333mhz. You also need a 'net connection to play halflife in any capacity after the upgrade. This includes playing single player or on a lan. It also turns out the players are not the only people inconvenienced. Steam is a pain to setup on a dedicated server. Since there is no full server binary many ops can't get it updated. The version of DoD distributed for steam doesn't work and you have to roll back to the old one. It also turns out the cpu usage is insane for the server. CPU usage on 2ghz dual xeons running 16 player games are up to 60-70% this is for a game that came out in 1998 when 400mhz was amazingly fast. Since I run my server on an old 600mhz Athlon which worked great until now I guess I'm out of the server op business. I'm getting about 200 e-mails a day form the hlds_linux mailing list and most of them are people who can't get steam running. Many ops are dropping their halflife servers and switch to other games such as Mohaa or UT. A few are holding out with the current version of HL and hoping valve doesn't force an upgade.