I just want to say that I also do not think the game is completed. We've been hearing from Valve THEMSELVES that the game isn't done. We've only heard from sources outside Valve (AKA these people have no ****ing clue what's going on) that the game is done. Do I believe Shacknews? No. Do I...
Well new graphics cards are released in both Fall and Spring (6 month cycles). Whether Nvidia has taken the steps to fix their card's problems for this fall remain to be seen.
What has me a bit upset is that the tour goes all the way to October 30th... Meaning that HL2 probably won't be released in the month of October (why go on a tour showing it off when it's already released?), so I think November is probably when the game will come out.
Heh yeah, I remember reading some guy saying "everything is going wrong today, the only thing that would be worse is if these forums went down", and they did. Weird.
I dunno, Valve has never kept a release date (Steam got delayed like 3 days, and now HL2 is delayed indefinitely), so I have a hard time believing the benchmark will be out tomorrow. It'd be a nice surprise, but for now I'm just going to assume it's not gonna happen.