Valve Re-Releases the E3 Videos

[Chris D]

At some point last night, Valve Software uploaded a special web page with all of those lovely high resolution videos that were recorded directly from the game engine. Whereas most of you can find all ten videos on our website here, you might at least be interested in the last three videos from the Steam website as they are now in 1024x768 resolution and a lot more detailed than the ones that were originally released.

Take a look at the Half-Life 2: E3 2003 section here.

 

[Kifpe]

The three last videos that you recomend us to see, is it the Bugbait, Coastline and Phyche?? Because I don't want to use an hour dowloading af vid I allready got

 

[CheapAssStrat]

The three last videos that you recomend us to see, is it the Bugbait, Coastline and Phyche?? Because I don't want to use an hour dowloading af vid I allready got

Striders, Coastline and Psyche.

EDIT:

".torrent"

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

 

[Kifpe]

Striders, Coastline and Psyche.

EDIT:

".torrent"

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

Year whut the heck is that?? I doesn't work?!
What's the thing about those .torrent ?? How do play those vids??

 

[CheapAssStrat]

Year whut the heck is that?? I doesn't work?!
What's the thing about those .torrent ?? How do play those vids??

It says on the website:
"These files are high-resolution, so they are pretty large. A BitTorrent client is needed to download them, so please install that first."

Use the link to download and install BitTorrent then click on the video links. Then, prepare to wait :|.

 

[Kifpe]

Wow, what a slow dowload :O Why is the dowload speed that low..?
.... And Why is that BitTorrent UPloading??

have to aks, haven't seen this before...

 

[RoyaleWithCheese]

Wow, what a slow dowload :O Why is the dowload speed that low..?
.... And Why is that BitTorrent UPloading??

have to aks, haven't seen this before...

With bittorrent you are not downloading from 1 location, but from multiple. As you download, you are hosting the files for other people as well, hence the upload.

Google for bittorrent, it'll explain everything

 

[The Dark Elf]

Wow, what a slow dowload :O Why is the dowload speed that low..?
.... And Why is that BitTorrent UPloading??

have to aks, haven't seen this before...

Thats how it works, the more you upload the more you download. But people messing with their clients so they don't upload slows the entire thing down and defeats the purpose of it.

 

[PvtRyan]

Thats how it works, the more you upload the more you download. But people messing with their clients so they don't upload slows the entire thing down and defeats the purpose of it.

It's not really the more you upload the more you download, if I lock my upload at 3 KB/s, my download is much higher. Probably because you have to send a confirmation that a packet is received, and the more you upload, the slower that goes so the longer before a new packet is transferred. But that's my n00b speculation

So, any mirrors?

 

[deekey777]

The download is so slow, but eg the Striders bink movie has the same excellent quality like Barricade oder Bugbait.

 

[Brian Damage]

I desparately want an excuse to kill my 56k modem...

 

[Neutrino]

Seems odd they're using bittorrent. Why don't they just use steam or something so we can get a decent dl speed. I couldn't get more than 5kiB/s from the torrent.

 

[SubKamran]

AWESOME. I was disappointed that the new videos were low quality. YES.

 

[Mr. Redundant]

bittorent sucks majorly.

 

[PeFro]

I´m dling at ~50kb/s, so that´s not too bad compared to Steam or anything else...
giving is better than taking, never forget that

 

[Varsity]

bittorent sucks majorly.

Correction: bittorent often sucks majorly.

 

[Neutrino]

Hmm...well now I got about 160 KiB/s for the gman video but I still can't get above 5 KiB/s for the others.

And I agree Varsity, Bitttorrent is great when it works, but horrible when it doesn't. It seems like if they could cobine bittorrent in some way with a convential download system they could have the best of both worlds.

 

[Mr. Redundant]

Correction: bittorent often sucks majorly.

NAY, Bittorent more often than not, sucks majorly for me

 

[Varsity]

Meh, try more popular seeds then. I've gone from 7b to 18kb on striders in the past five minutes, and it's still growing. Does anyone know why it takes so long for bt to 'spin up'?

 

[Alyx Vance]

Anyone know any sites that / can someone host these vids ?

Bit Torrent sucks major ass

How is it I can build an automated combat droid, but can't get a piece of file sharing software to work

 

[noah]

I wish VALVe would have released the initial tech demo video. Of all the E3 clips, that was my favorite. I'm glad the collection is complete now though.

 

[Sprafa]

Anyone know any sites that / can someone host these vids ?

Bit Torrent sucks major ass

How is it I can build an automated combat droid, but can't get a piece of file sharing software to work

www.halflife2files.com has them.


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[Alyx Vance]

Thanks Sprafa

:thumbs:

 

[Kifpe]

Ah! Thanks Sprafa! That BitTorrent was a slow death :dozey:

 

[machima]

Meh, try more popular seeds then. I've gone from 7b to 18kb on striders in the past five minutes, and it's still growing. Does anyone know why it takes so long for bt to 'spin up'?

It takes a while to find out what everyone else has downloaded and what you can get off them, then goes fast.

 

[henrym]

Seems odd they're using bittorrent. Why don't they just use steam or something so we can get a decent dl speed. I couldn't get more than 5kiB/s from the torrent.

Most likely, it's because they own Bram Cohen, the guy who invented BT, so they figure they may as well use his tech.

 

[Jensen]

A few things about bittorrent:
If you jump on a torrent when it is first put up, it may be a bit slow...
I jumped in later, and am now getting 240 kilobytes a second... it is saturating my connection. And my upload is only 6KB/s

If you wait a while, more people will be uploading, and less will be downloading.

The first piece takes the longest, as you have nothing to trade with
Even though I started out at about 20KB/s, it got up to my current speed of 240 KB/s

With a good BT client, you can limit your upload speed... It is good to put your upload a few KB less than the Maximum that your connection can handle

If you are still getting the file slow, you may have some ports blocked that BT uses.... that happened to me when I got my router.

And remember, try to stay on the torrent long enough so you upload as much as you downloaded, or more.


Why I like it:
No lines/queues
No ads
No connection limits.
No registering for a download site
Small open source program
There are no problems resuming a half finished download...
No corruption or incomplete files (every piece of the file is hash checked)
Easy... a one click download when set-up properly

Why Valve likes it:
Very low server cost and bandwidth needed... In fact, I could have served these files from my personal PC at home with my $40 a month cable Internet account. Well... I actually am, but I was not the original source

 

[Johan_Tayn]

check the sig.. :upstare:

 

[Striker]

half-life2.com is now up!!!! check it out!