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Linux video drivers are getting better everyday, and with Intel and ATI's openness, and nouvea's hard work, things are looking up - for the future. What was most ridiculous is your claim that somehow that is a problem with Windows drivers, and that Linux fares better. People that play PC games regularly are always running the latest video card drivers for this reason.
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Newer games use newer video card features and driver extensions, which exposes bugs. That Steam told you you needed a different video driver version is a step above and beyond most games, which will simply crash or render incorrectly without giving any indication as to why. To be clear: It is not just downloading stuff because of the game's need for activation. It's actually saving you headache, TF2, Portal, and Episode 2 have all been patched since their release. Those horrible updates Steam is downloading for you would still have to be downloaded manually otherwise (unless for some reason you like running unpatched versions of games). I understand you're frustrated, but your review is blatantly unfair, to both Steam and Windows.
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There are plenty of evil software to complain about out there on the windows platform, and steam is not one of the worst ones. In summary I just think it seems you were looking for things to complain about when you tried out steam this time. With steam you just download the game and play it the installation and configuration is appearantly done transparently which I don't see why you view as a negative thing ("which then downloads tons of data to "update" and "activate" your game")
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Have you tried installing any other major games lately? They come in dvds, sometimes even two of them, they take ages to install with cd keys having to be entered on top of that. Free software is a great thing, but I believe games are a bit different they are just pure content and the creators spend tons of money for the artists and coders to do deliver a few hours of fun on the computer. Sure, they have some restrictions on the game content with encryption etc, but they are also selling commercial games online. I don't completely agree with you the main features of steam is not restriction. It feels so good to know that we are doing the right thing by writing great free software instead of inventing strange concepts to annoy users through restricting what they can do with the software they bought. But it also had a good side for me: I was reminded again how precious the freedoms of free software are. What a pity that Valve ruined it with their crappy restriction management concept. The game itself is brilliant, by the way. If you think that graphics drivers on Linux are a problem go back to Windows and you will see that it can be worse. So I went again to the ATI site, downloaded some more Megabytes and finally it worked, but another hour was gone. Fortunately problems like that are so common, that it was relatively easy to find an entry in a forum which offered an solution: Downgrading the graphics card drivers to a specific version. But then when starting the game I only got a cryptic error message.
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Trying to be helpful Steam told me that I would have to upgrade the graphics card drivers to the latest version, so I did that. What a "steaming" pile of crap.Īfter this unpleasant experience I thought I would be ready to play the game, but no, I was caught in the nightmare of graphics card drivers for Windows. Needless to say that of course Steam gets autostarted on each login and annoys you with advertisements. It took almost an hour before I was even able to start the game. The box comes with two DVDs, but to be able to play you need to connect to "Steam", an online restrictions management server, which then downloads tons of data to "update" and "activate" your game. This was one of the worst buys I ever made. This box contains all kind of Half-Life 2 stuff including the new Episode Two and the very promising looking game "Portal". So it happened a few weeks ago when I saw a special offer of Valve's "The Orange Box" in the local electronics store. From time to time I get overwhelmed by my passion for computer games and I buy a game which promises to be fun.
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