Installing DirectX...

chaparral said:
There Nothing wrong with my PC....

Installing 200+ steam games with each game needing to reinstall Directx & visual c++ is going take any PC ages to do..
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You know you don't have to run a first time installation every time you download a game... Only the first time you run a game. Just run them when you play them, there's no way you play 200+ titles on a regular basis.

You're actually going to sit there and launch them all one by one to do the first time installation, but are worried about wasting time on installing DX? lol
 
As mentioned in that case you won't have to do it 200+ times. It should only run the DX setup when you actually try to play a game. ;)

Not sure if your comment was tongue in cheek but either way it shouldn't be too onorous a task, spending 2mins to setup a game is no different from if you buy a retain game and then have to spend time researching, downloading and installing patches.

Yes it is annoying but I just view it as part of the process for getting started on a new game.
 
I think his point is that if you reinstall your OS, and have 200 games on your account. Over the next however long before your next OS install, that's 200x2 = 400 minutes (A little over 6 hours) reinstalling DirectX/VC Redists. It only happens when you start each of these games, but its still a huge figure.
 
iviv said:
I think his point is that if you reinstall your OS, and have 200 games on your account. Over the next however long before your next OS install, that's 200x2 = 400 minutes (A little over 6 hours) reinstalling DirectX/VC Redists. It only happens when you start each of these games, but its still a huge figure.
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If I counted the amount of time I spent doing my shoelaces up in a year it would be a big amount. Not enough to get me to start buying slip on shoes though. :p

You can do plenty of things in this 2 minutes (which is nearer 15 seconds imo) you don't have to sit gawking at a progress bar. Browse OcUK, make a cuppa, etc. ;)
 
orderoftheflame said:
If I counted the amount of time I spent doing my shoelaces up in a year it would be a big amount. Not enough to get me to start buying slip on shoes though. :p

You can do plenty of things in this 2 minutes (which is nearer 15 seconds imo) you don't have to sit gawking at a progress bar. Browse OcUK, make a cuppa, etc. ;)
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True!

I'm considering making a huge .reg file containing all the info for the games I own, and releasing it for people to download. It'll create all the reg entries that steam looks for so it won't try and install everything, even on a fresh install.
 
Pretty tedious, I usually cancel the first time setup and start it again, usually skips it straight away.
 
anuraj said:
Yes the 8 hour download time on bad connection vs the 1 hour install time on retail.
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You've not used pre-loading before? Or... just don't have a bad connection.

Either way an 8 hour download is considerably quicker than waiting for even next day delivery, as well as the other benefits that Steam has to offer.

I've still no idea how "this [thread] shows a benfit of buying retail" as you claimed.
 
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