Forced CS:S preloads

[dassbaba]

$5 says this will be on torrent soon

 

[Pi Mu Rho]

It apparenly is already, but it still won't do anyone any good.

 

[Raxxman]

well considering that downloading the 300 odd megs of CS:S will take my ropey connection 2 days I can see the benift of getting it early. Also think of the server demand when every user starts to download CS:S.

 

[kevinb456]

yeah the main benefit (well actually the only one) is taking the pressure off the limited connections available (at both steam and our ends)

 

[JimmehH]

It just finished preloading for me. I didn't force it either. Started Steam up this morning and it had the updating icon. I tried to see what it was doing in the network monitor but it just kept saying "Scanning..."

When it was finished I had a look in the SteamApps directory and there was a new file called counter-strike source shared content.gcf

So I opened it with GCFScape. I didn't expect it to work (encrypted or incomplete) but it did. It comes with two maps; de_dust and test_speakers. Also seems to share some (not a lot, mind) content with HL2 but I'm keeping away from that.

Oh, it also has some server DLLs.

Comparing it to the CS GCFs, I'd say there was quite a bit missing.

 

[Someone]

Bahaha.. Gabe owned Catwoman. :thumbs:
..I think. That's a funnily worded sentence, can't tell if he was mocking it. OH WELL!

LOL! I took it the same way...I think the word "useless" is pretty much a given to what he thinks of Catwoman

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on topic. Just don't see the point. Even if someone can get the forced pre-load to work...why do it? The game will be out soon enough.

 

[Obraxis]

If I start downloading now on my dial-up connection then maybe it will be done by the time they finally let you play it.

Same here - it would definatly help real-CZ owning 56k users like us Without having to wait eons for the 300 meg file

 

[Kadayi]

Didn't Valve give a job to that guy who invented the BitTorrent technology? Perhaps when the CS:S beta becomes available, Steam will start using peoples upload capacity in a similar fashion to maximise content delivery.

 

[nc17]

A few sites and irc channels have posted the information needed to force pre-load of cs source and authenticate it so that it is playable

 

[segobi]

really `? Where ? I don't believe you...

A few sites and irc channels have posted the information needed to force pre-load of cs source and authenticate it so that it is playable

 

[segobi]

k..foudn the info

really `? Where ? I don't believe you...

 

[Gunner]

Naw the beta will b uploaded onto a website/ftp server n then we can all download it before its officially available 2 cz and ati voucher holders. Possibly by sum1 in the forums as i think some ppl, have already downloaded the file since the shortcut was found.

I don't think so. At least I hope not.

 

[kevinb456]

A few sites and irc channels have posted the information needed to force pre-load of cs source and authenticate it so that it is playable

u sure? if so, thats quite a security flaw, i would have thought it was pretty secure. where did you get that information from? also segobi did you say that you have verified this? not too happy about this

 

[DevgruSeal]

Thats a good point Gabe has.

I didn't download it. Like Gabe said, its pointless to have it, except just to say you pre-loaded it.

 

[Bicka]

A few sites and irc channels have posted the information needed to force pre-load of cs source and authenticate it so that it is playable

Thats apparently a load of bollocks now though. The guy on irc that uploaded the dll was randomly trying different dll's to see if one would work. None did

And its not pointless to have the cache file now because its out of they way and means more bandwidth for everyone else come the 16th-18th.

 

[t3chn0r]

I read on another forum that Valve just disabled it so nobody can perform the trick to preload CS:S anymore... I guess that way people will not affect content server's bandwidth/performance.