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Posted by DocRock on Wed Sep 10th at 8:15pm 2003

Pulled this right off the VERC:

Steam Dedicated Server Release Tonight; Steam Client Tomorrow

We've been making final changes to the Steam network throughout the night. Unfortunately, it's taken longer than we planned. However, the Steam dedicated server will be released this evening, and the Steam client release is now scheduled for tomorrow.

We're working to get the release out as fast as we can -- sorry for the delay, and thanks for your patience.

 





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Posted by ZeusTT4 on Wed Sep 10th at 8:34pm 2003

The problem is that "Tomorrow" has a lot of hours... I would want to know what time of day will be "Tomorrow"...



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Posted by Gorbachev on Wed Sep 10th at 11:01pm 2003

whoop-dee-doo [addsig]



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Posted by Leperous on Thu Sep 11th at 12:09am 2003

Meaning if you download it now then in a couple of days it'll be downloading patches for itself..?  Hooray, an automatic updating program that spends all day updating itself!



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Posted by Jinx on Thu Sep 11th at 2:53am 2003

I'm still trying to figure out why you need 500mb for steam alone, with 1GB recommended. what the hell kind of garbage do they plan on sending us?



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Posted by ZeusTT4 on Thu Sep 11th at 4:31pm 2003

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Posted by Mor7y on Thu Sep 11th at 4:36pm 2003

lol, forums down ;P



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Posted by Gwil on Thu Sep 11th at 4:40pm 2003

Sorry? They're apologising for the delay of a hard-drive consuming, broadband eating useless piece of corporate crap?

AMEN IT'S DELAYED I SAY!





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Posted by Jinx on Thu Sep 11th at 5:26pm 2003

Microsoft is going out about how great HL2 is as a windows platform game. I suspect they are impressed by Steam's insidiousness.



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Posted by Edge Damodred on Thu Sep 11th at 6:22pm 2003

Not just that Jinx but also that the game runs with DX9, not OpenGL.  [addsig]



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Posted by Gorbachev on Fri Sep 12th at 12:09am 2003

boo...hiss...last time I used the DX9.0 runtime I converted it back, it wasn't helpful, I'm not getting 9.0 until I get my Radeon. [addsig]



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Posted by Edge Damodred on Fri Sep 12th at 12:47am 2003

I tried to install DX9 on my laptop and it created a fatal disk error.  I hope in the future they allow the game to be run in OpenGL, like what Epic is doing with their games right now.  Chances are you'll see all the "performance issues" with nVidia's cards disappear with OpenGL support. [addsig]



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Posted by Leperous on Fri Sep 12th at 6:35am 2003

How Spyware-ish do you think this will be? (and how open to being hijacked by spyware too...)



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Posted by Monqui on Fri Sep 12th at 12:56pm 2003

Spyware? No! Not at all! I mean really, who would ever think of putting any kind of spyware in a program created by one of the more fickle entertainment industries? Not to mention the fact that said company is requiring people to use it, and the fact that its supposed to be running all the time.




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