mom's joke # twenty something something....

I think your are overstating the disadvantage but, I will look into it.

My fear is the games being turned off again somehow. I lost HL1 due to something I did and wonder still how and why. Apparently they updated HL1 at least once.

/me will connect now and see, just as soon as I figure out how to disable auto-updating.

If you are wrong, I will stick my finger into your avatars eyes.

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Something is wrong. HL1 isn't even in my list of Steam games, yet I used to do critiques for HL1 all the time. Even after Steam.

Now I have to sort out why.. And I cannot fine "Auto-Update" anywhere.

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Steam makes Baby Jesus cry, too.

It is just too... I don't even know, I just don't like it.

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To turn on/off auto updating for each game you right click on it in the list, go to properties, and then select the "updates" tab. I've no idea why HL1 isn't in your list - if you have added it to your steam account it should at LEAST be there in the "not installed" list. If it isn't there then you can add it by going to "games->activate a product on steam" and entering the CD key.

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Updating Platform:

sighs

Anyway, thanx Duncan, I will sort it out.

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I worded that thing oddly, didn't I? My apologies.

I suppose it'd be more accurate to say that when there is no new creative content, the only thing that's left is the normal bickering. Not exactly a lucrative aspect, I think. That's also probably why more people are becoming agitated with it now. Maybe it hasn't increased or become worse or anything like that ... but nothing else seems to happen in the last year or so.

I'm curious, about steam, does anyone elses (almost regularly upon updating games) NOT update the games. There are times where I open steam, it begins to update the games ... then they all sit there at 0% for a week. I usually have to delete all the GCF files ... actually install them with the HL2 DVD I regrettably bought, then update those ... which seems to work. It's annoying as hell, and I can't find anything discussing it. I imagine it's because their servers are so packed ... but, that doesn't make it any less annoying.

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well, mine are just ALWAYS updating. and I can't get to hammer to make anything creative so people will stop bickering. and it's all because of STEAM! :biggrin:

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15.6 megs just to update the platform. Sadly, it now partially updated my other files and I can no longer use Hl2.

/me will continue updating I suppose, now that I am committed.

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Well you don't use it regularly, you have to expect there to be updates. They aren't as regular as they used to be, but there is certainly one a month at any rate. I open Steam once a day to keep everything up to date, rather than just opening it when I need it, but obviously that isn't such a reasonable thing to do if you are stuck on dial up. Updates rarely take more than 5 minutes for me but I guess I have my connection to thank for that.

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your screenshot's too big.

/me runs

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Nickelplate said:
your screenshot's too big.

/me runs

48k is... Extreme. I followed the damned tutorial step by freaking step.
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Cries at the update speeds

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jesus christ...*****my eyes....my eyes...

Doc B... :dodgy:

Dr Brasso said:
jesus christ...*****my eyes....my eyes...

Doc B... :dodgy:

"Behold and Divine with thine own eyes if my pleas are just. Mine is a woeful existence at such dastardly speeds. Crestfallen I be."

places back of hand to forehead for special effect
"Oh, woe is me."

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Oh my, oh my... f**k.

My Source SDK seems out of date as well and the thing is inaccessible now. Thanx Duncan. I love you so much more now,than I ever did this morning.. :wink:

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<DIV class=quotetitle>? quoting Crono</DIV>
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I'm curious, about steam, does anyone elses (almost regularly upon updating games) NOT update the games. There are times where I open steam, it begins to update the games ... then they all sit there at 0% for a week. I usually have to delete all the GCF files ... actually install them with the HL2 DVD I regrettably bought, then update those ... which seems to work. It's annoying as hell, and I can't find anything discussing it. I imagine it's because their servers are so packed ... but, that doesn't make it any less annoying.</DIV></DIV>

Crono, I am not sure if this is relevant, since I do not update often but, twice today I shut the net off to check for missed calls... Yeah, that 56k thing again. Well anyway, upon reconnection, one out of two times, I had to pause the download, and restart it. The other time, it just took right off and downloaded.

Perhaps, you should pause and restart it as well..

Just a thought.

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Do you honestly think I'd delete a 2 GB file and re-download it if I didn't try pausing it and restarting and logging out and back onto steam? :razz:

Thanks for the suggestion, in any case, but yes, I tried it, nothing would resume the downloads. As for right now, everything is running alright.

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Crono said:
Do you honestly think I'd delete a 2 GB file and re-download it if I didn't try pausing it and restarting and logging out and back onto steam? :razz:

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Crono, you are only smarter than me. That doesn't mean much really. :smile:

Sorry, it wasn't helpful. I had only just learned it myself.

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I just noticed that my "Lost Coast" is being updated. I already played Lost Coast. Why is it updating?

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wow orph that looks really familiar to what i'm looking at right now

i am now the proud owner of half-life 2, as of saturday and i am updating 5 items on steam currently at 51 bytes/second

FatStrings said:
wow orph that looks really familiar to what i'm looking at right now
i am now the proud owner of half-life 2, as of saturday and i am updating 5 items on steam currently at 51 bytes/second

Right click on each and turn off what you don't need now. You can update them in steps.

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yeah

but i bring my laptop to school every other day for website design so i'm just gonna finish em up then

Laff, my minimum is around 300kb/s :smile:

if i'm lucky i get about 42 Kbps

Orph, some of the games that appear to be updating individually, are really only the one update being applied accross the board. the lost coast thing will be linked to some other update elsewhere, and not a seperate download.

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fishy said:
Orph, some of the games that appear to be updating individually, are really only the one update being applied accross the board. the lost coast thing will be linked to some other update elsewhere, and not a seperate download.

Really? How odd.

The only thing on at the end (days end cause cs is still not complete) Was "Lost Coast and Counter-Strike"

You think CS and Lost are connected?

Anyway, as I shut things off (paused) the downloads increased.

The good news is, I can now use my editor and HL2 again. I feared they would bork out.

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it could be something like an update to the hdr rendering, or some other shared resource.

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