This was years ago before CS was out and we were all playing TFC. They may have changed things since then but im abolutely sure it was 8 players when we tried it.
Im going to remember that quote :eek:
Anyway, goes to show Intel has some more innovation to do. Intel playing catch-up still confuses me. If the best thing they can pull is dual cores. I might be going the FX/Opteron route in the future.
Sony made Betamax so you could record stuff on tape. VHS came around and made a bigger tape that you could fit a full length movie on. Sony came around and made LP mode so u could fit one on beta too but that didn't stop VHS from doing the same thing.
Beta had better quality but was...
Actually, through experiance we found out that you are only allowed to have 8 people play with the same cdkey on a lan with HL1. The 9th person that joined will get the "this cdkey is already in use" error.
If that were true, what have they been working on for half a decade? And why would they have even bothered saying that the game would have been out September 30th if all they had ready was a 'taster.'
The ATI Shaderday event where Gabe Newell gave a powerpoint presentation explaining why the GeforceFX series is not a good DX9 card is where he mentioned the benchmark would be out on Sept30. You can find it here:
http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NTE5
Bottom of the page. Last point.