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Register the serial key to your steam account. The lastest version is always up for download.
You'd be surprised where you can find open wifi networks. Even in farm areas in New York, half of the homes are broadcasting wifi onto the street. In my technophobe hometown, I can find three unsecured wifi networks from my home.
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How is the modem connected to the computer?
Yeah, there's refracting stuff, even on DX7.
Bug report:
When you use the elite disguise, your field of view just turns white.
When you use the elite disguise, your field of view just turns white.
lulz, epic difficulty. I finally realized you have to smash the door open with your crowbar and leave the rebels to die. Of course then, once I smash down the door, I get hit with 3 weapons at the same time, and my character dies.
There's an inherent bias if you ask game players about games.
It's a pretty beginner-ish website. Remove the white from some of the images, I guess that where they were suppose to be transparent. You've got a few maps up there, and descriptions, which is good, but you hosted the actual files on really sucky hosts. Your website needs more work.
I'm in need of some gameplay help. Where's this bell that the rebel woman speaks of before a swarm of soldiers attack? The only hint I get is that there's a key locked door in the church, but I can't find a key (also, there's a battalion of 
on my ass while I search around, low on ammo + health).
on my ass while I search around, low on ammo + health).Yeah the config file was annoying, for all of the ten seconds it took to fix.Lucky you. My copy of Half-Life 2 has a funky settings menu. If I try to do it by the GUI, the settings don't stick, or the game crashes (along with Steam and Explorer).
Kasberg, every most of your points is correct. I thought the voice acting was excellent. It wasn't that usual stuff where you can tell it's one kid trying to sound like 4 different characters. I think it's a very well done mod, nothing different, but it's more of the (great) same.
Now about the manhacks. The mod starts off with a very ambiguous path. It's not as nebulous as Myst, but it's a pretty far out "way forward" compared to the hallway that is Half-Life 2. I didn't like this myself (Minerva sucked).
The config file that was included should've been with default bindings. That's a basic presentation thing.
Now about the manhacks. The mod starts off with a very ambiguous path. It's not as nebulous as Myst, but it's a pretty far out "way forward" compared to the hallway that is Half-Life 2. I didn't like this myself (Minerva sucked).
The config file that was included should've been with default bindings. That's a basic presentation thing.
I'm stuck, again. Some guy tells you to go down a tunnel, so when I press the button to open the entrance, I get killed instantly!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGHH!
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I'm stuck, on the first level.
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I'm stuck, on the first level.
Those signs usually are just a joke, like you're suppose to make something blow up in order to advance. Half-Life worked that way (that giant 5 room laser).
In Counter-Strike: Condition Zero: Deleted Scenes, there was a mission where the guards had alarm buttons. These big red buttons were everywhere around the map and it was so tempting to use them. Of course, that would end the mission and i'd want to slap myself for wasting 10 minutes.
In Counter-Strike: Condition Zero: Deleted Scenes, there was a mission where the guards had alarm buttons. These big red buttons were everywhere around the map and it was so tempting to use them. Of course, that would end the mission and i'd want to slap myself for wasting 10 minutes.
So you're that noob who gets random headshots.
Thanks for the DL link, it had a healthy speed of ~500KB/s.
The mod comes with someone's config file, olol! Now enough for nit-picking, the atmosphere is incredible, even though I can't beat the manhck puzzle.
The mod comes with someone's config file, olol! Now enough for nit-picking, the atmosphere is incredible, even though I can't beat the manhck puzzle.
After waiting 25 minutes to start the download, i'm getting a trickle rate of 14KB/s.
Replacing McAfee with a faster anti-virus will be a big performance boost.
Tom's Hardware is a giant shill website. I remember when 3.4GHz Pentium 4s were the fastest CPU. Tom's Hardware just hyped up the $1000 CPU of the moment because it had like 512KB of cache instead of 256KB of cache and some stupid crap like that. Totally out of touch with 99% of computer users who keep a computer for a few years instead of a few weeks (this CPU had a thermal rating of 145W).
$750 if you buy and assemble the parts yourself. This is a 2.33GHz Core 2 Duo, 2x1GB DDR2-800, GeForce 8600GTS, 250GB hard drive, and all of the other parts like a dvd burner and a Windows license.
Point is, the game is awesome, but the online community is a mob of spoiled autistic attention whores with no patience.
The only suggestion I have for DocRock is to move the energy rifle away from the ladder, so the crate jumps can't be skipped.
Tetsu0, the original Counter-Strike has pretty much flawless gameplay. The only problems are the graphics and pre-pubrescent twats that can't deal with being out of the game for 3 minutes. They should go play Halo co-op.
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Pentium 4 1.7GHz
512MB
DirectX 8 Videocard
Windows 2000/XP/Vista
Valve's Recommended:
Pentium 4 3.0GHz
1GB
DirectX 9 Videocard
Windows 2000/XP/Vista
Realistic Recommended (Very high settings/ very high performance):
Core 2 Duo/ Athlon X2 (Any speed is great, 2GHz is excellent, and 3GHz is overkill)
2GB
DirectX 9 SM3 Videocard: Radeon X1900XTX, GeForce 7900GT, Radeon X2600, GeForce 8600GT, or faster.
Pentium 4 1.7GHz
512MB
DirectX 8 Videocard
Windows 2000/XP/Vista
Valve's Recommended:
Pentium 4 3.0GHz
1GB
DirectX 9 Videocard
Windows 2000/XP/Vista
Realistic Recommended (Very high settings/ very high performance):
Core 2 Duo/ Athlon X2 (Any speed is great, 2GHz is excellent, and 3GHz is overkill)
2GB
DirectX 9 SM3 Videocard: Radeon X1900XTX, GeForce 7900GT, Radeon X2600, GeForce 8600GT, or faster.
Yup. I have an X850, without SM3 support. Pretty sucky, since the X1700+ cards aren't that much more powerful hardware-wise but do support SM3. Oh well.Think of the poor Nvidia stock holders who'll earn 4.7x10^-12 less cents per share if you don't buy a new videocard.
Dual channel is just a performance bump. You don't need matching pairs if you want to save a buck.
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You've got only a few Direct X levels:
70 = DX7
80 = DX8
81 = DX8.1
90 = DX9
95 = DX9 SM3 (Called DX9+ in GUI settings)
That HDR and phong mapping in DX9+ is way too much for a GeForce 6200.
Settings are suppose to stick, but I guess Steam randomly defaults settings. Like, I'm always defaulted to headphones instead of 2 speakers.
You've got only a few Direct X levels:
70 = DX7
80 = DX8
81 = DX8.1
90 = DX9
95 = DX9 SM3 (Called DX9+ in GUI settings)
That HDR and phong mapping in DX9+ is way too much for a GeForce 6200.
Settings are suppose to stick, but I guess Steam randomly defaults settings. Like, I'm always defaulted to headphones instead of 2 speakers.
"mat_dxlevel 81"
Closing spybot s&d + trillian helps. Everything not related to gaming (steam, xfire, etc) or is a critical program (firewall/ anti-virus/ wi-fi manager) should be closed.
There's something wrong with the way Playbus used it in Day 14: my "view" keeps floating up and up, out of the room.
I'm waiting for the "Black Box."
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fy_traped is my vote. Its design is simply incredible.
I think my first gaming experience was playing solitare on my dad's work computer (windows NT?). I played Nintendo 64 with my friends later - SSB, Goldeneye, Mario Kart 64, and Zelda were awesome games. IN 2002, I got a gamecube because the xbox was really expensive ($329? holy shit!), and the PS2 only had some weird anime games.
I only got this computer in the fall of 2003. Half-Life came to me in a bastardized EA box in winter 2006.
Penguinboy, shame on your for failing to beat Half-Life.
I only got this computer in the fall of 2003. Half-Life came to me in a bastardized EA box in winter 2006.
Penguinboy, shame on your for failing to beat Half-Life.
Penguboy, i'm still on a "2003" computer. 2.66GHz P4, 512MB, and a GeForce4 MX 440.
mat_dxlevel 70
mat_dxlevel 70
7zip is a freeware program that's more fully featured than XP's compressed folders.
They "stole" the TFC medkit as well. It's still a fun game.
Generally Useless Interface
Sorry, but the one in hammer is pretty much "it."
Sorry, but the one in hammer is pretty much "it."
"Please close all other programs..." is a holdover from Windows 9X, when your chance of a BSOD increased exponentially with other windows open or media playing. The only exception to this is like an installer for a program you're running.
FreeRAM is useless, it's an app that can be replaced with these actions:
- Using Vista (all your RAM are belong to us)
- In XP, running and then closing Opera.
You just edited it from 20GB.
I don't know, removing GUI prettiness so Vista looks like 2000 is going too far for me. If you stare at the contents of a screen, they should be as visually pleasing as possible.
There is one big advantage to a quad-core CPU: compiling Source maps.
Tetsu0, if you replace Norton, your computer will have a massive jump in performance.
"OMFGWTFBBQ 100% Spywaer/ Advwart fr33!"
I don't trust those notices.
I don't trust those notices.
Registry cleaners are useless and actually cause damage. Anything advertised in a pop-up is likely a trojan. Freeram isn't needed, just launch a program that acquires and releases lots of memory (Opera, not iTunes).
Basically:
Basically:
- A fast, effective antivirus (Avast or NOD32)
- A fast, effective firewall (I use Sygate, but there's no Vista version :o)
- CCleaner. It deletes un-used cache files and is a legit registry cleaner
- Speedfan. This allows you to control the speed of your fans.
- Spybot S&D + Ad-aware. There's no need to pay for anti-spyware. Spybot protects IE6/7 without slowing down browsing at all.
Disable the indexing service. Although it's nice to have a speedy search, indexing constantly uses the hard drive and slows down the system.
Disable un-needed Windows services. Wi-fi managers and other crap should be disabled. Don't follow anyone's guide word for word, though, experiment yourself.
Enable advanced hard drive speed options. Unless your power cuts out all the time, I suggest you do this: http://lonesysadmin.net/2007/01/29/windows-vista-performance-tip-enable-write-caching/
Use CCleaner, empty browser caches, defrag, use Quicktime alternative, etc
Disable un-needed Windows services. Wi-fi managers and other crap should be disabled. Don't follow anyone's guide word for word, though, experiment yourself.
Enable advanced hard drive speed options. Unless your power cuts out all the time, I suggest you do this: http://lonesysadmin.net/2007/01/29/windows-vista-performance-tip-enable-write-caching/
Use CCleaner, empty browser caches, defrag, use Quicktime alternative, etc
Use a lightweight anti-virus.
I saw this laptop with 512MB of RAM, Celeron M, Vista Home Basic, Norton Internet Security, and OEM adware. The perfect storm for a slooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww computer.
I saw this laptop with 512MB of RAM, Celeron M, Vista Home Basic, Norton Internet Security, and OEM adware. The perfect storm for a slooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww computer.
It's not just software.
Give the case some room, arrange the guts so air can flow well, don't get a PCI modem if you don't use dial-up (extra power usage and heat), etc. Be sure to dust the case often, and make sure heatsinks are clamped down securely.
Give the case some room, arrange the guts so air can flow well, don't get a PCI modem if you don't use dial-up (extra power usage and heat), etc. Be sure to dust the case often, and make sure heatsinks are clamped down securely.