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| Thread ID: 59482 | 2005-07-04 01:13:00 | General question regrading valve's steam. | scratta (7982) | Press F1 |
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| 369116 | 2005-07-04 01:13:00 | Does anyone know why steam is so resource intensive compared to the old half-life engine running by itself? If it is basically just a different shell for their games then how come frame rates are so much lower compared to the old won system? I've heard reports that even the half-life 2 pirated version runs faster when it has steam ripped out of it but i don't know if that's true. How come steam is such a resource hog??????? | scratta (7982) | ||
| 369117 | 2005-07-04 01:15:00 | LOL i mean regarding not REGRADING sorry! | scratta (7982) | ||
| 369118 | 2005-07-04 05:03:00 | I've tried the demo of HL2 and it seems to run OK for me... Maybe it's your computer? | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 369119 | 2005-07-04 05:30:00 | No it is steam. It does run faster with it all ripped. Its not like the usual protections - its integrated through the game much like IE in Windows. | pctek (84) | ||
| 369120 | 2005-07-04 11:14:00 | Yeah, it's because steam is looking for updates all the time, and when you run Half Life 2 with out the net connection it starts complaining about have no connection to the net which also slows the system down. Real frustrating but a version with Steam ripped out sounds like a great idea cause Steam pisses everyone off. |
Ollie123 (4243) | ||
| 369121 | 2005-07-04 21:30:00 | You could always run HL2 "off-line" this would nullify STEAM and should get rid of the resource hogging. I for one haven't noticed anything that bad. I used to get about 40-55 fps in Counter Strike:Source and after installing the lastest release of the Omega drivers the fps have jumped to 70-85 fps. The new release of Omega has a fps counter in the the top right hand corner, it's quite handy and small and doens't stick out like a sore thumb like when using the "net_graph" command in CS:S cheers chiefnz |
chiefnz (545) | ||
| 369122 | 2005-07-04 21:44:00 | Heh. I have a friend who is rather good at coding etc. He got HL2 and hated steam. He's very picky about performance on everything - both S/W and H/W. He does not play online. So he pulled the steam part out - and then did some tests between the 2. I was given the full rundown on it all and shown too. Unfortunately doesn't help those who aren't skilled in ways like my friend I guess. He said it was integrated throughout the game, not just like a normal protection scheme where it does its checks and then gets on with it. |
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