Where can I get the VST?

[bosox188]

The past couple days there have been benchmarks on the Source engine via CS:S (VR-Zone for example) and a lot of people here have been talking about there scores in the Visual Stress Test and I want to know where I can get it. I'm hoping it's just something with the CS:S beta cause I don't own CS:CZ and I don't have Steam right now, I have no use for it.

 

[Roland Deschain]

Yep, Valve should just release it. I understand why they would limit the beta to people who bought CS:Z or have a HL2 CD-key, but the VST should be made public, so that people can see for themselves if they need to upgrade (although I still challage the validity of the VST for the actual HL2 game experience).

 

[LAYP]

Because vst uses the source engine, those who have the beta already have the source engine.

 

[lePobz]

The source engine is 2mb - it's basically just lots of lines of code.

The VST assets (textures, shaders, GUI, sounds) would take up the rest of the file size.

I don't see why this can't be released to everyone over Steam as a feebie, nothing can be done with it other than let people see how well their machines will hande HL2.

 

[staddydaddy]

The source engine is 2mb - it's basically just lots of lines of code.

The VST assets (textures, shaders, GUI, sounds) would take up the rest of the file size.

there are no sounds in VST. the VST is ~70mb multiply that by how many people use steam a month, 1,541,098 and you get 107,876,860 mb of data tranfer. that is a HUUUGE strain on steam and nonsenical to ask someone to do just so you can see the words: You averaged 20fps.

If you honestly want the VST that much, go out and buy cz for $20.

 

[bosox188]

I don't want it that much. But really they should release it to everyone.

 

[Champ]

staddydaddy. It could be launched over fileplanet. There are really no excuse for not launching the benchmark level. But I'm content enough without it, just saying it would be great if we had it...

 

[lePobz]

staddydaddy when I said sounds I was referring to GUI sounds etc - and I dont think steam will collapse if a few more people download a 70mb benchmark.

Alternatively Valve should make the results public, so people can see other people with similar spec to theirs and see what sort of performance they can expect.

 

[staddydaddy]

I dont think steam will collapse if a few more people download a 70mb benchmark.

Mabe you can't read but 107 terabytes of data transfer is ALOT.

I don't see why valve is _obligated_ to release it to everyone. CSS and VST are rewards to people who bought CZ. You're going to buy hl2 anyways so who the hell cares? You get what you pay for and you can't expect a software company to just send out their graphics engine to anyone and everyone who wants to give it a spin on their pos rig. I don't blame them and I'm glad that not everyone is getting VST. The more people that have it, the larger exposure it has to people who want to maleciously mess with it (testing out wallhacks and such).

Like I said, Buy CZ or stop crying.

 

[Champ]

Bleh, noone is crying here. We're wondering what makes the benchmark so holy not to be released. Either way, we'll just have to wait. and by all means, fine with me!!

 

[Unfocused]

I think the tests will be showing that ppl have quite nice machines as many of those who got hold of the beta are ATI DirectX 9 GPU owners (XT series). These results would be overstated as there is a higher chance that the result comes form an XT series owner. I hope Valve doesn't think then "wow nice rigs, we don't have to optimize HL2 so much after all"

 

[lePobz]

Mabe you can't read but 107 terabytes of data transfer is ALOT.

Listen... Steam was designed to handle massive amounts of data transfer - if it can't supply 70mb to the masses, how do you expect it to handle a few Gigabytes of halflife2 to even more people.

There'd be less strain on the network from people downloading the VST than there was from people downloading CS source beta when it went online.

Yes, I can read, but you're an idiot.

 

[Roland Deschain]

Give the VST to public distributors (File Planet), then those with steam can install it and help VAlve get a broaded picture of how computer's will run HL2 and how to optimize it better.

 

[Unfocused]

This situation reminds me of the official CS bot. As you may remember it was to be included in CS 1.6 but actually wasn't. They said it would be included later on after some upgrades. Well, it still hasn't been included to CS 1.6, but it looks like it's the one in Condition Zero. Not nice.