Another Steam Update

[Housemixer]

Ah thanks FleK0, now it worked. Never thought of that. Now on to my next problem (getting Win2K mouse feeling under WinXP)

[freelance|gregC]

4 cpus 1 0.00 %

Game Screen Width 9 pixels 1 0.0%

Game Screen Depth 50 bpp 1 0.00 %

Hopefully valve wont have to cater for every user

[BoNeLeSS]

[7bits]Slownumb wrote..

Ya, since steam its been a revolving door. The fixes cause bugs and the bugs cause fixes...

What bugs?... plz dont count bandwith isssues as bugs.

[[7bits]Slownumb]

Edited by [user="219364"] @ [time="1078685853"]

Are you joking boneless?



The shield is still full of bugs(after how many times they"fixed" it?), the models shoot through the genitals, hitboxes are still off, the models are still turned 45 degrees but shoot at you.... the list goes on and on

[ZackMorris]

But I do believe http://beta.microsoft.com would be a legit URL to post if people are interested in getting on the SP2 bandwagon? I just re-read the forum rules and believe this to be "not breaking the rules"

JRules wrote..

ooo thanks xlokix just reread rules =p link gone

xlokix wrote..

jrules i really recommend you take that link out of your message, before you get banned

[xlokix]

he posted an irc warez search engine

so i guess beta.microsoft.com would be fine

[Antinous-ODY]

diggydoolans wrote..

what did i tell u the other the day, same old story



'valve release update'



everything screws up, a few days later valve realise they have screwed up.



so valve release another update 2 correct the previous update.



watch it happens everytime!

What the hell are u talking about? the new release didnt bring about any new bugs other than a bunch of lag that was caused by bandwidth shortages. The bugs people experienced were ones that were always there but nobody ever noticed until they were showing up due to the lag. The only time they release updates to fix a previous one is for VAC when a cheat detection is false, in which case they only revert back and do not release an update to fix it.

Tell me, other than the slow service, what was screwed up?



Every time an update is released for any major game there are a bunch of people who complain and are impatient while the update is being distributed. Valve didn't do anything to the game a few days later because they didn't need to. All they did was send out a message to places like CSNation to let the morons know that the reason for the delays was due to lack of bandwidth.



Unfortunately, lack of bandwidth is something that didn't happen as often without steam because people would host the update once they downloaded it, but most of us still only had to wait a day at the most to get back into our games.

[Skoiler]

wtf? error? internet problem... nope... no firewall, connected to the required ports blah blah blah... steam network problem? nope, everyone else can connect... x'O

[abysmal]

Saint_K wrote..

SP2 is still buggy as hell

Very true. I got the latest build as soon as MS mailled me about it, and roflmao the 'security center' loler what a hack of mcafee/norton :o It sucks too, see how much cpu/ram it takes up? It and all of the other random apps SP2 brings :/

[marc___1]

Antinous-ODY wrote..

What the hell are u talking about? the new release didnt bring about any new bugs other than a bunch of lag that was caused by bandwidth shortages. The bugs people experienced were ones that were always there but nobody ever noticed until they were showing up due to the lag. Tell me, other than the slow service, what was screwed up?

marc___1 wrote..

(post #12)

Maybe they're going to fix the bug where offline mode keep trying to connect to the net in SP games :\

thats not a bug thats obviously caused by bandwidth issues :/

[CheesyPeteza]

There was a bug with the last update that reset a lot of peoples connection settings to modem, so they are experiencing a lot of lag. I assume thats what will be fixed in the next update:



http://steampowered.com/forums/showthre...hreadid=61166

[xlokix]

friends is down most of the time, isn't that sort of a bug?

[Saint_K]

The update this week will be a bug fix for the internet speed set in steam, (hlds_l mailing list, alfraid said it)

[-:Nighthawk:-]

Friends has never been really stable, so it's not like that's anything new.

Housemixer wrote..

Ah thanks FleK0, now it worked. Never thought of that. Now on to my next problem (getting Win2K mouse feeling under WinXP)

Control Panel - Mouse - Pointer Options - Uncheck "Enhance pointer precision"

That typically makes XP feel a lot more like previous OS's. Personally, though, I decided to just get used to it, and I kind of like it now (I no longer use dual sensitivities).

marc___1 wrote..

thats not a bug thats obviously caused by bandwidth issues :/

Any bugs with offline play aren't things they broke from previous versions, which was the idea being offered previously. Rather, they're flaws in new features, which I think almost all of us expected there to be. It's a new feature, and if you're not happy with it yet, just pretend they haven't added it yet, and don't use it until they fix the bugs.

[scope_fodder]

Cheezy Peteza, *thank you* for posting the link to the fix for Steam's new 'mystery lag' feature. My rate was jumping from the usual 20-30 to well over 600, making the game completely unplayable.



I knew someone on the forums here would have the answer. Thanks guys.