What Games Are You Playing? [2]

[Wishmaster]

Yes, its normal for Steam to suspend a download when you launch game.

I really like Steam myself. I typically put a set sum in my Steam wallet for the sales and buy a bunch of stuff. Usually they last me until the next big sale.
But in all honesty, I have a backlog of games I havent played yet and still buy more at sales lol.




I had the same issue with HD space. Thats why I eventually got a large HD thats dedicated to just Steam.


They have 2 major sales a year. One in Summer and one in Winter. Then a couple minor ones.
They also have a Misweek madness and dailys all year.

 

[M1GU31]

BTW, if something comes up for vote anyone wants, say so and Ill vote for it so hopefully itll get a bigger sale

That could be a good idea for a dedicated thread. A heads up thread where we all rally together.


(I may have been a Steam holdout, but so far I'm really enjoying the ease of use (no more flapping around with 'work arounds') and the new found 'glow' of supporting companies. It's assuaged my guilt that had been growing over the years I'm also more inclined to actually start and finish games )

The only downsides are that my drive is filling up quickly and I don't see why any current downloads get suspended while I play a steam game :huh: Is that normal or is there a setting I'm missing?

My paypal account is also copping a hammering, lol.

You can keep steam downloading while in game by at+tab then go to steam and start it up again,it's what I did while playing one of my games on steam.Was a sp btw

 

[smarteyeball]

I really like Steam myself. I typically put a set sum in my Steam wallet for the sales and buy a bunch of stuff. Usually they last me until the next big sale.
But in all honesty, I have a backlog of games I havent played yet and still buy more at sales lol.

yeah, I wacked a few hundred on paypal to cover the xbox and steam.

As for backlog - if I didn't have one before (which I did) I certainly do now

I had the same issue with HD space. Thats why I eventually got a large HD thats dedicated to just Steam.

Annoyingly, I have the space - but not quite in the right place.

I've got a 500GB Raid 0 partition for games, a dedicated 240GB Intel 520 for games and my 240GB 520 for the OS+Steam. I'm now a bit of a SSD snob and want all of them on my SSD

It's just a pity that steam won't allow you to individually specify drives/locations. The all or nothing is a tad annoying.

They have 2 major sales a year. One in Summer and one in Winter. Then a couple minor ones.
They also have a Misweek madness and dailys all year.

Cool - for the time being I should be good for awhile, but it gets a bit addictive. (I even d/led the Thief series only to find there are a shed load of hoops to jump through to try and get them to run )

You can keep steam downloading while in game by at+tab then go to steam and start it up again,it's what I did while playing one of my games on steam.Was a sp btw

I'll give that a go next time. Cheers

 

[Wishmaster]

To simplify the process, I just junction link magic.
Junction Link Magic

Just move the game folder from your steamapps/ common to where ever you want it.

I have Steam on the OS drive, the steamapps folder was moved with this program to a dedicated HD. Then whatever games I want on a SSD I just move those games from the spinner with it.

Although this works great, Steam really needs a better option for where to put each game.

 

[M1GU31]

Got the the whole crysis series during the steam summer sale.For some reason crysis 1 and warhead i can put every setting on very high expect for psychics quality which makes micro stutters in big fire fights,think my cpu gets bottle necked if if put it higher then medium,every other setting runs like a champ on very high with x4aa.On crysis 2 the game had this like blurry effect so I got a custom tool and changed some settings myself and only turned off this one setting that is kind of like AA but blurs the whole screen.Game looks good now,anyways been playing them and I like them so far,not to bad and graphics are nice. Both running nice in dx10 and crysis 2 in dx11 with texture update.

 

[nobilis]

When I have time, Far Cry 2.

 

[Konstantinov]

Just completed Batman: Arkham Asylum for the 1st time and Fallout: New Vegas for the 2nd time. Gotta say I'm very pleased with both games.

 

[smarteyeball]

To simplify the process, I just junction link magic.
Junction Link Magic

Just move the game folder from your steamapps/ common to where ever you want it.

I have Steam on the OS drive, the steamapps folder was moved with this program to a dedicated HD. Then whatever games I want on a SSD I just move those games from the spinner with it.

Although this works great, Steam really needs a better option for where to put each game.

Thanks Jess

 

[bhutkeyur]

Lord of the rings Battle of Middle Earth 2
Devil May Cry 4
Prince of Persia 3
Hellgate London Single Player
Age of Mythology

 

[BlackSparrow]

Prince of Persia The Forgotten Sands
Just Cause 2

 

[Terronium 12]

Perhaps I'm playing too much!

pCARS
Skyrim
NFS Hot Pursuit
Darksiders
Oblivion
Assassin's Creed
Burnout Paradise

And that's only of the games I've recently installed. Damn Summer Steam sale.

 

[BlackSparrow]

Damn Summer Steam sale.

Can't blame the Summer Steam Sale over there, down here it's WINTER Steam Sale... got most of the games you got in that list of yours too, all but Darksiders and pCARS

 

[M1GU31]

Got rid of the bottleneck in crysis now running my cpu at 3.6GHz,anyways been playing LA Noire and it's pretty hard imo.It's good and surprised it has dx11 support which I didn't know of when I bought it on the steam sale for 4.99usd. It's pretty good so far and runs a lot better then gta iv did.

 

[ankur850]

Currently Playing

Crysis 2
Crysis
Call of Duty Modern Warfare
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3
Dirt 3
Max Payne 3
Mass Effect 3
Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 2010
Need for Speed Most Wanted
Need for Speed Carbon
Tomb Raider Adapt or Die
Medal of Honour 2010
GTA San Andreas Multiplayer
GTA Vice City
Counter Strike 1.6 Non Steam LAN
Split Second



Total 16 Games
Space Required for these Games : at least 120 GB Enjoy

 

[sqrtofneg1]

Playing:
Team Fortress 2
Portal 2
CrimeCraft GangWars
Minecraft

 

[Magictallguy]

I generally only play games on the PC, here's my list so far:

Age of Empires 1 - the classics will never die!
Age of Mythology
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Dragon Age 1
Dragon Age 2
Fable: The Lost Chapters
Halo: Combat Evolved
Halo 2
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
Mass Effect 1
Mass Effect 2
Mass Effect 3
Monopoly for PC - oh yeah!
Sonic Heroes - ^.^ die hard Sonic fan
Super Meat Boy - blame the missus!
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Torchlight
World of Warcraft - Yeah, I'm a nerd! And?

 

[Solarstarshines]

Got rid of the bottleneck in crysis now running my cpu at 3.6GHz,anyways been playing LA Noire and it's pretty hard imo.It's good and surprised it has dx11 support which I didn't know of when I bought it on the steam sale for 4.99usd. It's pretty good so far and runs a lot better then gta iv did.

I've had LaNoire since Max Payne release and never got it to run

It was free but still i feel jipped and aparantly i need a bunch of patches just to make iut run phooey

 

[Wishmaster]

Did it try to patch and then fail to run?

Check your Antivirus Quarantine for the patcher or Social Club entry.
Norton hated the Social Club Patcher and Sonar thought it was doing something very strange and bad to my computer and killed it.

Worth a look anyway. May be a similar issue.

 

[M1GU31]

Got rid of the bottleneck in crysis now running my cpu at 3.6GHz,anyways been playing LA Noire and it's pretty hard imo.It's good and surprised it has dx11 support which I didn't know of when I bought it on the steam sale for 4.99usd. It's pretty good so far and runs a lot better then gta iv did.

I've had LaNoire since Max Payne release and never got it to run

It was free but still i feel jipped and aparantly i need a bunch of patches just to make iut run phooey

I had a start up issue until I went in C:\Program Files (x86)\Rockstar Games\Social Club and in their there is a file called Social Club v1.0.6.1 to v1.0.6.6 Updater. I used that to update rockstar social club and my start up error went away for me.I kept getting runtime error 216 at 0055813 until I updated that and it fixed the problem for me.

 

[boogieboy]

Been so long have'nt played any game yet still need to buy new hdd n 1 or 2 more things