half-life2 pre-load phase7

rocklegendfm99 said:
i just downloaded half-life2 pre-load phase7
Wow. It hasn't even been released yet, but you still managed to get it. Well done for you, sir. Well done indeed.
 
Its a counter-strike source update!

* Added cheat protection to flashlight option
* Changed mp_roundtime to accept more granular values
* Fixed display of Asian Windows 98 fonts
* Fixed memory leak after multiple level changes
 
BillyJoBob said:
Its a counter-strike source update!

* Added cheat protection to flashlight option
* Changed mp_roundtime to accept more granular values
* Fixed display of Asian Windows 98 fonts
* Fixed memory leak after multiple level changes

Well, I clicked oh HL2 and it downloaded from like 99% to 100& or something.. That's not CS:S....
 
eiric said:
Well, I clicked oh HL2 and it downloaded from like 99% to 100& or something.. That's not CS:S....
Did this everytime a css update was released. It wasn't phase 7 sorry.
 
If it was a proper hl2 preload, they would tell you what you were downloading.
 
hi_ted said:
If it was a proper hl2 preload, they would tell you what you were downloading.

Well, they didn't... Seems strange but I know what I saw.
 
Just like alot of us saw "Unlocking Half-Life 2 game files" when css updated itself before a recent update. But low and behold...
 
Something is happening, mine is at 88% now...

/ I know that was some sort of bug, but they fixed that, right?
 
We're trying to say, every other time there has been a cs:source update, it makes HL2 look like it went down to 99%. This wasn't an HL2 preload, just a cs update.
 
Just got this pop up when i clicked pause then continue again...
 

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Basically, CS:S and HL2 share the base source files. This means, if there's an update which patches the base source files, it'll show up as an update for CS:S and HL2.
 
Wow my preload is back to 88% I dont think a simple Cs:s upload is that big.
 
Slainchild said:
Just got this pop up when i clicked pause then continue again...

That just means: content servers too busy to let you download this update right now, try later, but written differently because you got it from the preload window. If you try setting CS:S to "Do not auto update" then to "Auto update" it'll probably give you a error to the same effect.
 
Raziel-Jcd said:
Wow my preload is back to 88% I dont think a simple Cs:s upload is that big.

I think I understand why this is. Steam has just enough data about the update to know that the cache files containing that 22% of the data are potentially not right. So they're listed as being 0% up-to-date.

Once you can connect to a content server serving the update, it'll pop back up to 99% or so when the Steam client is told most of the data in the shared source files is just fine.
 
Yep mine jumped down to 99% after restarting Steam. Not a preload though, word stuff better :p
 
wait hold on i dont get why i went down to 88% and its not moving up at all, whats up with that, can you explain it a little bit easier?
 
Right, I reckon when you restart Steam, the central Steam server tells your client there's been an update in some cache files. It then regards the data in these cache files as being invalid.

In this case, the updated cache files were the shared source ones. These are used by both CS:S and HL2, so when Steam works out the percentage of the HL2 data you have, it comes to 88% because it now sees some of the data as invalid.

Now, ususally what happens is it contacts a content server which serves data for those cache files which are invalid. It then asks the content server which files in that cache are out of date. If it contacts, it realises the vast majority of the data is perfectly valid and up-to-date, and the percentage complete jumps up to 99%, and it starts downloading the files it needs to finish the update.

If you can't connect to a content server for any reason, it stays at 88% until you can.
 
if you look at monitor when you d/l'ed it says counter-strike: source.

So again, don't raise your hopes until the 16th
 
88% and frozen

It'd be nice to be one of the one's who don't have these problems.
 
4 updates in 24 hours now...just got one that simply said "scanning...."



it's coming.
 
What is there left to preload? Did we get the maps already?
 
For those of you who don't update often, you may want to try restarting again...2 of my other machines do not get updated as much as my main rig, and it required multiplr restarts (3) to get fully up-to-date. FYI.
 
rocklegendfm99 said:
i just downloaded half-life2 pre-load phase7
WTF?! Are you absolutely dumb or what? Did you not even bother to bring up the Steam monitor when Steam was "working"? I mean please, just cause Steam is doing something doesn't mean its the next preload for HL2.....
Or you are just trying to stir the pot so to speak and get everyone all hot and bothered... either way you are an idiot :devil:
 
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