Marxist ßastard Posted November 18, 2004 Share Posted November 18, 2004 Well, have you ever played Half-Life 2, mister Robin? ...And I'll leave the debate on the basis of my not having played Everquest when this thread becomes a debate about Everquest. As it stands, this is an inquiry to the forum members as to whether or not they got Half-Life 2 running without incident. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darnoc Posted November 18, 2004 Share Posted November 18, 2004 If only I had more money... I would finally buy myself a new, modern graphic card (at the moment I have a standard, cheap, sucking Intel-card) and after that of course HL2 and EQ2. (Guys, were do you get all that money? I'm searching for a job now for about sixth months, haven't found anything at all. If I wouldn't teach English, I couldn't even pay my DSL-connection. Nah, if I finally would find a real job, I would also have an appartement of my own and wouldn't have to endure my annoying little brother :rolleyes: ) Anyway, as soon as I have updated my computer, I will buy them both. Does anyone, when the German version is available? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zmid Posted November 18, 2004 Author Share Posted November 18, 2004 I really wish people would stop whining about steam. It's not that much of an inconvenience, if you aren't pirating the game. If you are, then you get no sympathy from me.<{POST_SNAPBACK}> Actually, if I had decided to hack the game, I would be inconvenienced far less than I was by buying a retail copy and attempting to legitimately authorise and play it. You see, I did, in fact, spot details of a hacker program to fool a retail copy of Half-Life 2 into thinking it had been verified by Steam amongst the multitudes of posts asking what the hell was going on on Steam's official forums (I won't post details, and I do believe that post is now gone). I am all for anti-piracy measures - as long as, at the very least, they actually cause more trouble for the pirates than the legitimate users. With HL2, this didn't happen. As for the game itself... amazing doesn't even begin to describe it. If only I had the replacement for my melted video card and could play it myself.... I agree with that. It is well worth the wait, but to have a lot of aggro trying to legitimately authorise it because of an anti-piracy measure that simply didn't work is a bit much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faust870 Posted November 19, 2004 Share Posted November 19, 2004 Ok, my buddy has a 56K modem that on a good day only gets a 32.2k connection... and thats on a good day... Now he really wants to play Half-Life 2 because he has an amazing computer (the moron bought a radeon X800 for Doom 3)... and you said that you have to get stuff off steam to even play single player... how long would this take for him to download roughly...like, how long did it take on DSL? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marxist ßastard Posted November 19, 2004 Share Posted November 19, 2004 Darnoc:<{POST_SNAPBACK}>If only I had more money... I would finally buy myself a new, modern graphic card... Were do you get all that money? I sold my kidney to science. If that's not your cup of tea, you can run Half-Life 2 with cheaper hardware if you turn some of the shader effects down a notch. It runs perfectly well on a DX9 codepath with an R9600, and I've got confirmed reports of people playing the game without incident on a GeForce 3. Darnoc:<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Does anyone [know] when the German version is available? Simultaneous worldwide release. The game was made avaliable at 8am GMT on November 16th all over the world, and in a multitude of different languages; the only ones that I see were left out were the Japanese and Koreans, who both have text-only localizations with no audio. Faust_87:<{POST_SNAPBACK}>...The moron bought a Radeon X800 for Doom 3. He's only a moron if he bought the Pro version. Faust_87:<{POST_SNAPBACK}>How long would this take for him to download roughly... how long did [the download] take on DSL? Most of the people here with retail downloaded it while the content servers were slashdotted. Any amount of time given from that will not be relevant when we're talking about how long a download will take at the present time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ImmortalSnafu Posted November 19, 2004 Share Posted November 19, 2004 It would make more sense for game developers to spend more time with the game's content than with anti-piracy measures... no matter how complex a system they design, people will always defeat it. I've heard that people have already found a way to beat Steam ;). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marxist ßastard Posted November 19, 2004 Share Posted November 19, 2004 Half-Life 2 most assuredly does not have a content problem, and those hacks that people talk about (but never prove the existence of) are, in all likelihood, either trojans that do nothing of use, semi-working hacks for offline play after registration (which Steam allows you to do, anyways, in a completely kosher manner), or blatantly illegal pieces of software that won't work for anything more than a week. A game "unlocker" of the sort that people have been talking about here is, without a doubt, an example of the former possibility, since the retail game does not contain an executable -- it must be odtained from one of Valve's content servers. EDIT: Another possibility is that the warez versions are banbait. Even if you're not interested, there's a debate -- a real debate with insightful comments, not one incited out of a plain inquiry by trolling and plagued with lies and general idiocy -- about Valve's anti-piracy measures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zmid Posted November 19, 2004 Author Share Posted November 19, 2004 Ok, my buddy has a 56K modem that on a good day only gets a 32.2k connection... and thats on a good day... Now he really wants to play Half-Life 2 because he has an amazing computer (the moron bought a radeon X800 for Doom 3)... and you said that you have to get stuff off steam to even play single player... how long would this take for him to download roughly...like, how long did it take on DSL?<{POST_SNAPBACK}> Not long - once you actually managed to connect and get your CD Key verified. It only took a minute or two, if that, on a 1 meg connection. The problem (which now seems sorted) was in actually connecting to Steam and getting your CD Key authorised. A game "unlocker" of the sort that people have been talking about here is, without a doubt, an example of the former possibility, since the retail game does not contain an executable -- it must be odtained from one of Valve's content servers.<{POST_SNAPBACK}> So it's totally impossible to include that .exe in the hack then? Don't get me wrong, if you know for a fact it can't be done, fair enough, but the hack I saw claimed to include the stuff downloaded from the Steam servers for the retail game and to emulate Steam well enough to fool the game into thinking it had been validated. Oh, and Darnoc? Minimum requirements for Half-Life 2 taken from the Readme:1.2 GHz Processor4.5 GB HD Space256MB RAMDirectX® 7 graphics cardDirectX® 9.0bWindows® 2000/XP/Me/98MouseKeyboardInternet connection EDIT: Just realised something and those hacks that people talk about (but never prove the existence of) Erm, correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't doing that breach the forum rules? You see, the only way I can think of doing that is by linking to a hack, and that is a strict no-no. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Atti_ Posted November 19, 2004 Share Posted November 19, 2004 I've heard that people have already found a way to beat Steam ;).<{POST_SNAPBACK}>true..team Emporio did it..again..(they allready released a fully playable version of Cssource) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darnoc Posted November 19, 2004 Share Posted November 19, 2004 Oh, and Darnoc? Minimum requirements for Half-Life 2 taken from the Readme: QUOTE1.2 GHz Processor4.5 GB HD Space256MB RAMDirectX® 7 graphics cardDirectX® 9.0bWindows® 2000/XP/Me/98MouseKeyboardInternet connection I've got a Intel 82845G/GL/GE/PE/GV Card. I have no idea how good that is, since it was in my computer when I bought it. But does anybody know if this card is sufficent? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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