HL2 on steam, 3-4 hours more playtime ?

[Guest]

I know its a bit silly but iwe been a bit worried about this.
On steam, OP4, HL has never lagged so much and loaded so long
What about HL2 ?? While others are jumping around we are still waiting for the game to load, and get around 30 FPS cus of steam ?

 

[Yatta]

See some of the other threads. HL2 will be downloaded into your Steam cache a week before the game is released so that you don't have to worry about things like that.

 

[.5c0ut-WHoR3.]

Cool, and im going to play sp first before i even connect to steam.

 

[BloodyL]

It's lagging and taking ages to load as you don't have the full cache.
This happened to me before I overwritten steam with the 720Mb full cache install, now every game takes only a few seconds to load.

 

[nostgard]

Also, when you talk about FPS and all that, take into account that Source was (apparently) built around Steam, as opposed to the original Half-Life engine which had to be adapted to work with it. That's why you're seeing a lot of bugs now that they are having to work to fix (like the MP3s not playing for some).

 

[DaveKap]

Swear to god, if there is any tech demo (like in e3 presentation, where you get the gravity beam thing and the pachinko with cans) I am definitely going to play that before any story or anything else. I just want to be sure it all looks pretty before I really delve into the game.

 

[CyberSh33p]

its lagging during changes as it loads all the sounds and maps etc as you play. I expect theychange this practice soon, as it is quite annoying.

 

[Gordon'sFreeman]

no problems here..