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Yes. Me neither, but I'm betting it's several years away from appearing on my screen. Utter nonsense! It's the details that take the time, and every game is up against time and budget restraints and ends up full of little details the programmers wish they had time and money to deal with.

They aren't. You get that feeling because people here are constantly having to defend Steam against idiots like this. Steam isn't a perfect system, but it beats the hell out of your favorite software company going down the tubes because of piracy. I think that's pretty representative of most...

You didn't register your key on your old computer, you registered it to your steam account on the Steam server. Your games are tied to your Steam account, not the machine you happened to use to register -- that wouldn't be a good system at all. Your Steam username, password, email address and...

Thanks Lord_PackRat!

I'm not finished it yet: spent a week or two tweaking, realised I never finished HL1 (don't blame me, blame my old system) so went and did that Since then been taking it slow, enjoying the scenery, most of what I've played I've played twice, looking for goodies. Ravenholme and nova prospekt I...

FYI, it says 'Exit' not 'Close'. But I don't think that's quite enough make anyone an idiot :eek:

HL2 doesn't seem to be too hot at working with video mode changes and selecting a good refresh rate, although I don't play enough games to know if it's worse than any others At 1024x768 my max refresh for my monitor is 75Hz, but HL2 decides to run at 60Hz unless I put -refresh 75 in my launch...

try putting -width 800 –height 600 into Launch Options. this should allow you to start the game. you should re-select the old video mode once you get in, then you can thake these commands back out if that doesn't work, delete \Valve\Steam\SteamApps\...\half-life 2\hl2\cfg\config.cfg this...

if you had a retail version you could send them the box, but it sounds like you're screwed. all the info on steampowered.com says that your games are permanently tied to your steam account and your password/question/email are the only keys for that, no exceptions sorry dude

try not letting steam start automatically when you boot, it sounds as if it's starting before your connection is up, this happened to my friend. instead, wait until you're sure you have a connection before you start steam, wait for it to update itself and let it update the games you want to...

what was that line from that song again? ... "the future's not as good as it used to be..." i'm not voting, cos this poll's not as good as the old ones entropy, me dears

I'm not talking about cancelling an update in progress or anything like that. I'm just pointing out that I've read a LOT of posts where people have said "oh, you can just turn off automatic updates" and in not a single one of them has anyone mentioned that playing in online mode will turn them...

I play at night after the kids have gone to bed and I can't hear a word anyone says at the volume i'm playing at, does anyone know how I can increase the volume of just the speech? The closed captions are doing my head in. :frown:

That's precisely my point, but a lot of people are posting that you can turn auto-updates off without mentioning this, so I thought I should.

I don't understand the need for all this discussion, the answer is published clearly on www.steampowered.com - you send Valve the box, keeping the cd's yourself. Valve now know you own the game, so they cancel the account of the fraudster and activate the game on your steam account (I don't...

it's always going down for maintenance, hopefully it will work in a few years. you wouldn't think it would be that hard, it's not like it's a fully featured IM client, no offline messaging, no file transfers. guess it's not a high priority

don't forget you can use the steam monitor to, well, monitor the download progress. it's in the steam menu under, er, monitor.

The FX cards aren't great I hear, but I'm not enough of an expert to tell you what to get, you just need to do your research. I'd get more RAM tho, 512 is the minimum for a 128Mb card: make sure your AGP Aperture is set to 128 in your BIOS -- the rule is to set it to the same as your card's RAM...

Right at the start of HL1 there's a scientist sitting in a corridor with a headcrab on him, if you beat it with the crowbar it comes off. They're two seperate models, and the crab is the same size as an unattached one, and seems plenty big enough to swallow a head. The scientist apears to be...

Can I just point out that turning off automatic updates does NOT work if you play in online mode. Any game you play in online mode will have automatic updates re-enabled as soon as you start the game (application), even before you start actually playing it (i.e. before the server starts)...