theholygod
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So, i just bought the ID Pack thingie and have a number of criticisms:
After attempting to run a game that runs with DosBox a window would show and then suddenly vanish, i traced this back to steam "using" the dosbox exe. Fixed by restarting steam, i know theres a "please restart steam" warning when installing mods, however this could have been made clear on installing commercial games.
Each game has its own dosbox installation. Now, i can understand why valve would do this for people who only want to buy one or two ID games, however they could have easily stored dosbox in one location and set the game bat files to point to that single dosbox exe.
This leads me to my third point: how do i go about updating dosbox for those games? surely i would have to install it over the top of every existing installation.
So, a few problems (all revolving around dosbox) that valve easily could have handled better. Other than that, i'd like to see more views for steams game list (eg, icons) in the near future.
After attempting to run a game that runs with DosBox a window would show and then suddenly vanish, i traced this back to steam "using" the dosbox exe. Fixed by restarting steam, i know theres a "please restart steam" warning when installing mods, however this could have been made clear on installing commercial games.
Each game has its own dosbox installation. Now, i can understand why valve would do this for people who only want to buy one or two ID games, however they could have easily stored dosbox in one location and set the game bat files to point to that single dosbox exe.
This leads me to my third point: how do i go about updating dosbox for those games? surely i would have to install it over the top of every existing installation.
So, a few problems (all revolving around dosbox) that valve easily could have handled better. Other than that, i'd like to see more views for steams game list (eg, icons) in the near future.