After the update adding in-game advertising the amount of 1.6 servers has drastically dropped, Source has almost got the same amount of servers as 1.6 now.
Well you've no idea what year it is where the text is going past, for all you know it could be the year 5000. Let me know when we build giant words flying through space.
Interesting that you have a different Steam to me, i'm using the latest official Steam client. Takes about 10 seconds to start while uncapped, 5-10 minutes while capped (64kbps net sucks:P). It's currently using between 0% and 5% cpu & 40mb of ram. You're probably looking at the "Mem Usage" column to get your 3mb figure (mines 5mb with the main window closed, 15mb with it open), enable the "VM Size" column in task manager to get the true memory usage value.
And that brings up something else -- does Steam have any way of identifying which games can work on which platforms? Somehow, I doubt it -- Source has been portable to pretty much anything that can handle Steam, unless it's too slow. I wonder what they're going to do about Vista or 64-bit -- I imagine they'll ship both with the same copy of the game (like they do now with various optimized Linux server binaries).
I don't know if they do but with Counter-Strike if you are using 64-bit windows it will download a 64-bit binary. Surely they can introduce that with an update if they go cross-platform.
However, if they do this properly, then it would make cross-platform a lot easier. You wouldn't want something stupid like Steam/Linux letting you download Half-Life 2, and then trying to run the.exe...
True, they could give you a warning that it's emulated and just run it through wine though. Wine can run the Source engine very well.
and to the other guy who said Steam won't go cross-platform because of the low number of people, it's a matter of "they wont release games on the platform because there aren't enough gamers" and "gamers wont adopt the platform because there aren't enough games". For games to become popular on Linux first there needs to be some commercial games released, iD release all their games cross-platform and I see Valve as one of the industry leaders, it'd be good for them to move cross-paltform. Surely they have an OpenGL version of the Source engine in some state since they've done a PS3 port and the PS3 won't run DirectX code.
Science fiction is a broad genre of fiction that often involves speculations based on current science or technology. It is commonly abbreviated as SF or sci-fi. Science fiction is found in books, art, television, movies, games, theater, and other media.
In organizational or marketing contexts, science fiction can be synonymous with the broader definition of speculative fiction, encompassing creative works incorporating imaginative elements not found in contemporary reality; this includes fantasy, horror, and related genres.[1]
Science fiction often involves one or more of the following elements:
* A setting in the future or on an alternative time line.
* A setting in outer space or involving aliens or unknown civilizations.
* The discovery or application of new scientific principles, such as time travel or psionics, or new technology, such as nanotechnology, faster-than-light travel or robots.
* Political or social systems different from those of the known present or past.
Exploring the consequences of such differences is the traditional purpose of science fiction, making it a "literature of ideas".[2]
Basically Science Fiction is a speculation on what life will be like in the future, I don't know how you could say Star Wars wasn't science fiction. You've got advanced civilizations with huge futuristic cities and clone warriors and a bunch of other stuff. As for Serenity/Firefly being sci-fi, check http://www.fireflywiki.org/Firefly/CategoryTechnol ogy for information about their Technology.
The Source engine is DirectX only. Steam uses Internet Explorer -- I believe for large chunks of the interface, and also for the MOTD on CS:Source servers.
So? Valve is a publisher & Steam is a distribution network, it's got nothing to do with the Source engine being DirectX.
Valve can replace the Internet Explorer control with the Mozilla control for a linux port. CS:Source is irrelevant as it won't run on Linux natively anyway.
There are titles on there that do have native Linux binaries -- Darwinia, for instance, has a Steam release, but you can also buy it from their website, which gives you 3 downloads each, completely un-DRM'd, of the Windows and Linux versions (Mac version is published by a third-party shop that did the port).
Exactly, the Linux version could be distributed through the Linux port of Steam....
Personally, I'd like to re-implement Steam, but the way I want to do it is complete overkill, and not going to happen soon.
Being able to impulse-buy a game and have it playable either in a few minutes or in a day or so is a huge deal. Also isn't bad getting periodic updates (HDR for Half-Life 2 and CS:S).
I don't like how updates are forced on you though, you can't play any of your games unless they are completely up to date which is a problem for people on slower internet. Also, I don't want some updates. Just recently Valve have rolled out in-game advertising in Counter-Strike 1.6, along with the ads comes more FPS lag and the ads don't even attempt to be non-intrusive. There is a huge ad right above the scoreboard and they just stuck the in-game ads randomly on level walls, not even on a billboard. For a company that got so much right with Half-Life i'm disappointed in Valve...
I used to be a huge critic of Steam and its related services, but I've warmed up to the idea over time.
I think the idea of Steam is great but the execution is poor. Steam is a resource hog and takes ages to do anything. Yesterday I was playing Counter-Strike 1.6 and I was getting huge FPS drops so I opened task manager and Steam.exe was using 40% of my CPU for some reason. It's an annoying bloated background service you have to put up with to run your games.
Steam is also not cross-platform(yet? one could hope..), although they have some titles on there that could release native Linux binaries they're not able to since the Steam client platform is Windows-only. I think it'd be awesome if Steam went cross-platform but seeing as how they can't even get the Windows client right I doubt it'll happen for awhile yet.
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Civilization 4 is much too buggy for my likings, I built a ship and it sailed through the land! THROUGH THE LAND! Unless this is some sort of fabled "Ghost Ship" then the game obviously needs more patching/testing.
Yea I don't know why people go on those shit plans either, as I said in a diff post I get 20gb onpeak and 40gb offpeak so that's 60gb provided I don't hit the onpeak therefore voiding my offpeak. How did you go about setting up the snmp monitoring?
"The oligopoly situation in e.g. Australia and New Zealand, combined with the limited bandwidth on and off the continent, has allowed residential "broadband" providers to get away with billing per megabyte over the first 3000 in a month." Don't forgot Dodo Internet what with their awesome 200mb/month plan and I was reading a magazine and saw a 50mb/plan from some random ISP. You'll end up paying tons for those plans if you get sucked into buying them. I think the 50mb/month one was $5 for each excess 100mb or something stupid like that. I can't believe it's legal:(
I'm with Optus at the moment. I get a 1.5mbps/256kbps connection with 20gb onpeak and 40gb offpeak for $75/month. After going over limit get capped to 64k.
It's one of the better deals around at the moment as I can't afford the $150/month for unlimited data usage.
because online multiplayer affects the core of gaming, which is gameplay. This is a big reason PC gaming isn't dead and the reason why any of the major consoles who don't make this leap will be left behind.
I thought it was because of all the abilities to mod your games and to upgrade your hardware to make your games look better that made PC gaming stick around. With an XBOX/PS3 your games are going to get to a certain level and won't get any better whereas on the PC side you can just keep updating your hardware and the games will get much better.
I stopped playing about (what I'd assume) is a third way through because it just got so repetitive
What on earth do you mean!? Clear room out, walk through door, turn to left blast monster supposed to jump out and scare you, turn around blast monster that spawned behind you. Clear out room, walk through door, turn to the lef....
Doom 3 was scary until I realised that every room follows the same pattern. I never did get around to finishing it but the game improves a a hell of a lot when you get to hell (Was playing Last Man Standing co-op with some mates). Last Man Standing co-op makes Doom 3 worth the money I paid for it. It's so awesome having old school co-op goodness through beautifully designed levels. If only I could say the same about the standard Doom 3....
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After the update adding in-game advertising the amount of 1.6 servers has drastically dropped, Source has almost got the same amount of servers as 1.6 now.
Well you've no idea what year it is where the text is going past, for all you know it could be the year 5000. Let me know when we build giant words flying through space.
Interesting that you have a different Steam to me, i'm using the latest official Steam client. Takes about 10 seconds to start while uncapped, 5-10 minutes while capped (64kbps net sucks :P). It's currently using between 0% and 5% cpu & 40mb of ram. You're probably looking at the "Mem Usage" column to get your 3mb figure (mines 5mb with the main window closed, 15mb with it open), enable the "VM Size" column in task manager to get the true memory usage value.
And that brings up something else -- does Steam have any way of identifying which games can work on which platforms? Somehow, I doubt it -- Source has been portable to pretty much anything that can handle Steam, unless it's too slow. I wonder what they're going to do about Vista or 64-bit -- I imagine they'll ship both with the same copy of the game (like they do now with various optimized Linux server binaries).
I don't know if they do but with Counter-Strike if you are using 64-bit windows it will download a 64-bit binary. Surely they can introduce that with an update if they go cross-platform.However, if they do this properly, then it would make cross-platform a lot easier. You wouldn't want something stupid like Steam/Linux letting you download Half-Life 2, and then trying to run the .exe...
True, they could give you a warning that it's emulated and just run it through wine though. Wine can run the Source engine very well.
and to the other guy who said Steam won't go cross-platform because of the low number of people, it's a matter of "they wont release games on the platform because there aren't enough gamers" and "gamers wont adopt the platform because there aren't enough games". For games to become popular on Linux first there needs to be some commercial games released, iD release all their games cross-platform and I see Valve as one of the industry leaders, it'd be good for them to move cross-paltform. Surely they have an OpenGL version of the Source engine in some state since they've done a PS3 port and the PS3 won't run DirectX code.
To quote Wikipedia (Not the best source, I know)
Science fiction is a broad genre of fiction that often involves speculations based on current science or technology. It is commonly abbreviated as SF or sci-fi. Science fiction is found in books, art, television, movies, games, theater, and other media. In organizational or marketing contexts, science fiction can be synonymous with the broader definition of speculative fiction, encompassing creative works incorporating imaginative elements not found in contemporary reality; this includes fantasy, horror, and related genres.[1] Science fiction often involves one or more of the following elements: * A setting in the future or on an alternative time line. * A setting in outer space or involving aliens or unknown civilizations. * The discovery or application of new scientific principles, such as time travel or psionics, or new technology, such as nanotechnology, faster-than-light travel or robots. * Political or social systems different from those of the known present or past. Exploring the consequences of such differences is the traditional purpose of science fiction, making it a "literature of ideas".[2]
Basically Science Fiction is a speculation on what life will be like in the future, I don't know how you could say Star Wars wasn't science fiction. You've got advanced civilizations with huge futuristic cities and clone warriors and a bunch of other stuff. As for Serenity/Firefly being sci-fi, check http://www.fireflywiki.org/Firefly/CategoryTechnol ogy for information about their Technology.
I'd have to agree, the Crazy Taxi boxart looks fine to me. I don't see what's hideous about it? It's just what you do in the game, drive your taxi :P
So? Valve is a publisher & Steam is a distribution network, it's got nothing to do with the Source engine being DirectX.
Valve can replace the Internet Explorer control with the Mozilla control for a linux port. CS:Source is irrelevant as it won't run on Linux natively anyway.
There are titles on there that do have native Linux binaries -- Darwinia, for instance, has a Steam release, but you can also buy it from their website, which gives you 3 downloads each, completely un-DRM'd, of the Windows and Linux versions (Mac version is published by a third-party shop that did the port).
Exactly, the Linux version could be distributed through the Linux port of Steam....Personally, I'd like to re-implement Steam, but the way I want to do it is complete overkill, and not going to happen soon.
Care to detail that at all?Being able to impulse-buy a game and have it playable either in a few minutes or in a day or so is a huge deal. Also isn't bad getting periodic updates (HDR for Half-Life 2 and CS:S).
I don't like how updates are forced on you though, you can't play any of your games unless they are completely up to date which is a problem for people on slower internet. Also, I don't want some updates. Just recently Valve have rolled out in-game advertising in Counter-Strike 1.6, along with the ads comes more FPS lag and the ads don't even attempt to be non-intrusive. There is a huge ad right above the scoreboard and they just stuck the in-game ads randomly on level walls, not even on a billboard. For a company that got so much right with Half-Life i'm disappointed in Valve...
I used to be a huge critic of Steam and its related services, but I've warmed up to the idea over time.
I think the idea of Steam is great but the execution is poor. Steam is a resource hog and takes ages to do anything. Yesterday I was playing Counter-Strike 1.6 and I was getting huge FPS drops so I opened task manager and Steam.exe was using 40% of my CPU for some reason. It's an annoying bloated background service you have to put up with to run your games.
Steam is also not cross-platform(yet? one could hope..), although they have some titles on there that could release native Linux binaries they're not able to since the Steam client platform is Windows-only. I think it'd be awesome if Steam went cross-platform but seeing as how they can't even get the Windows client right I doubt it'll happen for awhile yet.
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The link to the plugin is working now, check it out.
I'm downloading it now, it's 7mb but only going 10kb/s so I'm not sure what it'll be.
The page admitting that it's just an April Fools: http://www.techarp.com/0104.htm
We are past the days of people using notepad for major sites
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Yea, now we use vi with syntax coloring
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Thanks for that link, it's a very good read.
Civilization 4 is much too buggy for my likings, I built a ship and it sailed through the land! THROUGH THE LAND! Unless this is some sort of fabled "Ghost Ship" then the game obviously needs more patching/testing.
Don't worry they'll make a new version that works with TV tuner cards too.
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Alright thanks for the info, I've always wanted a way to track my usage without tracking my LAN usage too. Hopefully I can work this out.
Yea I don't know why people go on those shit plans either, as I said in a diff post I get 20gb onpeak and 40gb offpeak so that's 60gb provided I don't hit the onpeak therefore voiding my offpeak. How did you go about setting up the snmp monitoring?
"The oligopoly situation in e.g. Australia and New Zealand, combined with the limited bandwidth on and off the continent, has allowed residential "broadband" providers to get away with billing per megabyte over the first 3000 in a month." :(
Don't forgot Dodo Internet what with their awesome 200mb/month plan and I was reading a magazine and saw a 50mb/plan from some random ISP. You'll end up paying tons for those plans if you get sucked into buying them. I think the 50mb/month one was $5 for each excess 100mb or something stupid like that. I can't believe it's legal
I'm with Optus at the moment. I get a 1.5mbps/256kbps connection with 20gb onpeak and 40gb offpeak for $75/month. After going over limit get capped to 64k.
It's one of the better deals around at the moment as I can't afford the $150/month for unlimited data usage.
because online multiplayer affects the core of gaming, which is gameplay. This is a big reason PC gaming isn't dead and the reason why any of the major consoles who don't make this leap will be left behind.
I thought it was because of all the abilities to mod your games and to upgrade your hardware to make your games look better that made PC gaming stick around. With an XBOX/PS3 your games are going to get to a certain level and won't get any better whereas on the PC side you can just keep updating your hardware and the games will get much better.
I stopped playing about (what I'd assume) is a third way through because it just got so repetitive
What on earth do you mean!? Clear room out, walk through door, turn to left blast monster supposed to jump out and scare you, turn around blast monster that spawned behind you. Clear out room, walk through door, turn to the lef....
Doom 3 was scary until I realised that every room follows the same pattern. I never did get around to finishing it but the game improves a a hell of a lot when you get to hell (Was playing Last Man Standing co-op with some mates). Last Man Standing co-op makes Doom 3 worth the money I paid for it. It's so awesome having old school co-op goodness through beautifully designed levels. If only I could say the same about the standard Doom 3....