Steam christmas sale 2010... twitch

wedgie · 31 Dec 2010 at 14:05

Glad GTA was so cheap because at no point did it warn me I might as well not buy the game with an ATI card :rolleyes:

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Semiskimmed · 31 Dec 2010 at 14:10

wedgie said:
Glad GTA was so cheap because at no point did it warn me I might as well not buy the game with an ATI card .

why do you say this, ive got a ati card and have played all 3 games fine?

Mattyjw · 31 Dec 2010 at 14:11

wedgie said:
Glad GTA was so cheap because at no point did it warn me I might as well not buy the game with an ATI card .

really that sucks for me too then, whats wrong with it?

geon106 · 31 Dec 2010 at 14:12

GeoPat said:
I was tempted by this but backed off after reading the forums. A memory leak and/or single core issue can bring the game to it's knees after a couple of hours. One or two argue that changing affinity to another core helps a little as OS mainly uses core 0.

Nothing concrete in terms of a patch either.

well if Cities XL 2011 is anything like last years Cities XL 2010 then it'll be naf. Honestly, i spent £35 on a game that is so boring, has performance issues, including the memory leak issue after a few hours. Its not very engaging at all.

wedgie · 31 Dec 2010 at 14:12

Semiskimmed said:
why do you say this, ive got a ati card and have played all 3 games fine?

Perhaps I've not lowered the settings enough then (although I did have to use the Steam launch command line fix to even be able to adjust options in the first place) what settings are you using for the game to be playable?

buchtis · 31 Dec 2010 at 14:20

Caved in and bought Oblivion Deluxe for £9.99.

Filthy, greedy *******s.

Semiskimmed · 31 Dec 2010 at 14:21

wedgie said:
Perhaps I've not lowered the settings enough then (although I did have to use the Steam launch command line fix to even be able to adjust options in the first place) what settings are you using for the game to be playable?

i cant remember exactly as im reinstalling it right now.
but it wasnt super high, i thought you meant it wouldnt run at all or something! :cool:

wedgie · 31 Dec 2010 at 14:23

Mattyjw said:
really that sucks for me too then, whats wrong with it?

It's completely unplayable for me now, hopefully I just need to recheck my expectations for what level of detail I'll be playing the game with.

Will have another mess with it later and find out.

ScarySquirrel · 31 Dec 2010 at 14:23

wedgie said:
Glad GTA was so cheap because at no point did it warn me I might as well not buy the game with an ATI card .

Works fine on my 4870

wedgie · 31 Dec 2010 at 14:24

Semiskimmed said:
i cant remember exactly as im reinstalling it right now.
but it wasnt super high, i thought you meant it wouldnt run at all or something!

For all intents and purposes it was not running

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wedgie · 31 Dec 2010 at 14:25

ScarySquirrel said:
Works fine on my 4870

Ah, there is hope

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What settings do you play with?

Semiskimmed · 31 Dec 2010 at 14:33

wedgie said:
For all intents and purposes it was not running .

well it is a bit of a dog to run

Mattyjw · 31 Dec 2010 at 14:37

Why oh why wont steam let you download whole playing a game? Is there a setting that allows you to not pause the downloads when running another game?

chrismscotland · 31 Dec 2010 at 14:38

Mattyjw said:
Why oh why wont steam let you download whole playing a game? Is there a setting that allows you to not pause the downloads when running another game?

Alt - Tab out of the game and then resume the download then Alt - Tab back in

liamcrane · 31 Dec 2010 at 14:41

is anyone else getting slow downloads via steam? just checked my router and my downstream is at 3600kbps which is normal for my 3mb connection but steam is only downloading at 140kb/s

All i wanna do is try left for dead 2 lol

Mattyjw · 31 Dec 2010 at 14:42

buchtis said:
Caved in and bought Oblivion Deluxe for £9.99.

Filthy, greedy *******s.

It's not bad compared to retail, I saw it vanilla for 12 quid with Bioshock so to get all of the DLC tha people have made significant improvements to in mods for an extra 4 is good just not as good as during Quakecons sales which I think the summer deal was. I think a lot of Steams sales in the summer are convention related because they all follow one another.

|Thomas| · 31 Dec 2010 at 14:46

liamcrane said:
is anyone else getting slow downloads via steam? just checked my router and my downstream is at 3600kbps which is normal for my 3mb connection but steam is only downloading at 140kb/s

All i wanna do is try left for dead 2 lol

Have you tried changing your download server (Steam -> settings -> Download + cloud)? Generally smaller mainland Europe countries are offering better speeds. Also the Manchester server is better than London from my experience.

Tombo · 31 Dec 2010 at 14:46

rainforest is amazon

KIA · 31 Dec 2010 at 14:53

Mattyjw said:
Why oh why wont steam let you download whole playing a game? Is there a setting that allows you to not pause the downloads when running another game?

The simple reason is latency.

liamcrane · 31 Dec 2010 at 14:55

|Thomas| said:
Have you tried changing your download server (Steam -> settings -> Download + cloud)? Generally smaller mainland Europe countries are offering better speeds. Also the Manchester server is better than London from my experience.

liamcrane said:
is anyone else getting slow downloads via steam? just checked my router and my downstream is at 3600kbps which is normal for my 3mb connection but steam is only downloading at 140kb/s

All i wanna do is try left for dead 2 lol

Thanks for that mate worked like a charm back up to 350kb/s.

I was on the netherlands server by default lol changed it to uk london now

Steam christmas sale 2010... *twitch*

Steam christmas sale 2010... twitch