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"Half-Life 2: Fire hazard"

Half-Life 2 will be activated today at 8am. Oh man. Steam is going to break so badly, it won't even be funny. It's gonna be a red sky in redbus (or wherever they're hosted).

Anyone have any thoughts about today's long-awaited release?

yer im still waiting
i thought id get the dvd rom rather than downloading. so i paid the extra expecting it to come on like wednesday or thursday however im still waiting even when i spoke to them they upgraded the waiting time to 3days which is today funny enough and it still aint arrived. so he said well we got to wait 15days how crap is that.

ÂLŠ†ÂÎR wrote:
> NB do you have an ATI card? The memory errors were fixed in Catalyst
> 4.11 and they appear to only affect ATI cards.
>
> I used to get them early on with CS: Source but since the new
> Catalyst Driver and latest Steam update I haven't had it since.

Ah good point. Never thought of checking them. I think I might still be on 4.10s.

Tig, do you think the Uni would mind if I downloaded Half Life 2 over Steam? I've got the license for it. Also, will it work through the proxy?

Can't say I have had any problems. Played CS: Source late last night and didn't have any issues. May grab the 4.12 betas though, it was the memory fix that I updated the driver for.

Performance shouldn't be an issue though ;)

ÂLŠ†ÂÎR wrote:
> NB do you have an ATI card? The memory errors were fixed in Catalyst
> 4.11 and they appear to only affect ATI cards.
>
> I used to get them early on with CS: Source but since the new
> Catalyst Driver and latest Steam update I haven't had it since.

Warning. The 4.11 cause errors in Punkbuster enabled games including crashing, lag and freezing. I'm running the 4.12 Betas from ATi which has fixed this, buthave also been tuned for HL2/CS:S giving up to a 10% increase in performance.

NB do you have an ATI card? The memory errors were fixed in Catalyst 4.11 and they appear to only affect ATI cards.

I used to get them early on with CS: Source but since the new Catalyst Driver and latest Steam update I haven't had it since.

I was watching a ping graph of steampowered.com this morning. It keeled over at about 8:09 for a few minutes, but I think it's better now.

Halo 2 just happens to have the best multiplayer of any game I've ever played though. And it isn't done justice by an old P3 with only 64 MB of RAM.

I think I'll be playing Halo 2 more. Certainly until the first bug fix comes out for Half Life 2... It's throwing up some memory errors just now. Strangely, nothing else has lost the ability to read memory. And I now have work. Gah.

Tyla wrote:
> Anyway, despite that, today I am bitter... Stuck in the office, had
> to leave home at 7.50am so no HL2 for me until I get home at 7
> tonight!!


Snap. It's going to be a long, long day today.

Hehehehe.

"The forums couldn't handle the excitement and are taking a little breather. See www.steampowered.com for news. Thanks!"

What a suprise. :D

Notorious Biggles wrote:
> It would have been nice of them to have an announcement about what
> time in the news section of steam, as opposed to me just trying to
> load it every five minutes between midnight and 02:00.

It's 8am for the UK dear... There's been plenty of posts about this all over the planet including on the official steam forums where under the HL2 section there's a list of release times based on localization...

Anyway, despite that, today I am bitter... Stuck in the office, had to leave home at 7.50am so no HL2 for me until I get home at 7 tonight!!

Have concidered trying to play it over VNC, but have decided against it... May throw a fake "vomiting" incident at work in 20 mins and go home!;)