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| Mr.Interceptor:
--- Quote from: MegaScientifical on December 26, 2010, 01:52:45 PM ---Valve has nothing to do with it... right? --- End quote --- Steam was made by Valve. |
| Saber15:
I hate STEAM, and I'd use Impulse if it had more games and more sales. The only good thing about STEAM is the integrated friends list and the frequent sales; otherwise Impulse is better because you don't have to run the stupid thing when playing a game. STEAM's stuffty software is a resource hog - I can play MWLL (Crysis x2 p. much) on high and yet my PC hiccups when loading up the main STEAM window. If I play a Source game like Garry's mod then close it, hl2.exe and gameoverlay.exe continue to run in the background, preventing me from running another game and preventing me from opening STEAM windows. If I close them via task manager, I have to restart STEAM to play another game, because otherwise it pukes up a "STEAM STARTUP ERROR". The ingame browser constantly crashes when loading random webpages, and when it crashes it prevents you from even opening the overlay to talk to friends, meaning you're pretty much boned when playing a long game unless your games are alt-tab friendly. The overlay sometimes restarts itself but rarely. STEAM community goes down at random with no warnings except in the cesspool of the STEAM public forums, and it went down for several months straight back in the day. |
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--- Quote from: Tylale on December 26, 2010, 04:16:41 PM ---Its still the most demanding game ever made that is currently released, I believe. --- End quote --- Yeah. ...it's 2007, right? Also, Saber, the only problem of those I have is the "browser constantly crashes" thing. |
| Messes:
I'm getting ~100 BYTES/second download. It's pissing me off, taking me "174 days" to download 4gb's worth of TF2 Updates. |
| dkamm65:
--- Quote from: Fizzles on December 26, 2010, 07:47:47 PM ---There are plenty of games more demanding than Crysis now. There's an indie game more demanding than Crysis, Shattered Horizon. --- End quote --- It's made by Futuremark, which isn't exactly indie. It doesn't really even look all that great, so it's not as much demanding as it is poorly optimized. Most of the trouble running it comes from how many object are on screen at once. Crysis is demanding because it looks good, not because of how many objects it can pack on the screen. Might I also add that just because Shattered Horizon is "demanding", it doesn't mean Crysis isn't demanding. Regardless of what people seem to think, it still takes a fairly high end PC to run at full quality. |
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