Retail or through Steam?

[Animal]

Ordering through Steam or are you guys waiting for Retail? I'm more inclined to go Steam since more things will be available to you. The only drawback is that you have no media which sucks for reinstalls. But couldnt you backup your steam directory to a DVD-RW or something?

[D_Struct]

i'll be getting mine from steam...

[DrVannacutt]

D/L it atm... kindly slow. The backup thing is something I didnt figure out yet. With windows, you would like to have a backup... just in case.

[ColdColors]

Retail. Steam sucks my balls.

And I want the cd's for LAN parties.

[DrVannacutt]

I D/L it yesterday... but all my games disapeared mysteriously during the night !?!? So now I have to D/L it again... bah

[ColdColors]

You'll have to download the games you want to play through Steam before you can play them. Simply having a HL install alone isn't enough anymore.

[L1veUndead]

Im going with Steam. Im too lazy to wait.

[Animal]

Who ever is buying through steam, did you get it yet?

[Animal]

Bit the dust and got the silver through steam. Was flawless, I punched in my CC number and instant access to Source and everything else cept HL2 and DoD source! :biggrin:

[Raven]

same! total pwnage

[Animal]

Fo sho' foo :cool: It is pretty pimp! Source is the shit.

[Raven]

CS:S makes me horny, omfg.. it's awesome
physics are better than in doom3
FBs and HEs make you deaf for awhile now and you can shoot dead bodies to make 'em dance, can roll barrels down the ramp on dust, shit like that.. it's fuckin awesome

[L1veUndead]

CS Source Stress Test with everything maxed out. I am running at 115 FPS!..w00t

[Hoplon]

System specs?

[Sammie]

I'm only getting around 65 and I'm getting a lot of static.

[L1veUndead]

1 | CUSTOM SYSTEM


1 | ALIENWARE FULL-TOWER CASE BLACK


1 | INTEL D875PBZ MOTHERBOARD


1 | INTEL PENTIUM 4 3.0GHZ 512K L2 CACHE 800MHZ FSB


2 | 1GIG DDR PC3200


1 | WESTERN DIGITAL 200GB 8MB CACHE HD


1 | NVIDIA GEFORCE FX 5950 ULTRA 256MB


1 | CREATIVE SOUNDBLASTER AUDIGY PLATINUM 2 6.1


1 | 1.44MB FLOPPY DRIVE BLACK


1 | LITE-ON 52/24/52 CD-RW BLACK


1 | PLEXTOR DVD+R/RW PX-504A


1 | CYBERLINK POWERDVD 8 CHANNEL 7.1 XP


1 | ALIENWARE MASTER CD


1 | MICROSOFT WINDOWS XP HOME


1 | ALIENWARE MOUSE PAD


1 | 1-YR 24/7 ONSITE WARRANTY (NO CHARGE)


1 | CUSTOMER SUPPORT WARRANTY (NO CHARGE)


1 | 420 WATT POWER SUPPLY


1 | 36" INTERNAL TO EXTERNAL USB CABLE


3 | ALIENICE INTAKE RED FAN


1 | CABLE MANAGEMENT

I also have from my own collection a Microsoft Intellipoint Optical Mouse, Altec Lansing 6.1 Dolby Digital 6 speaker set, D-Link Router, Logitech leet keyboard, and a Samsung 23" Flat Screen Monitor.

My CS Source Settings are running at all high levels, Everything on. Stress Test was 115 FPS, In game FPS was 80-100. Running my Vid settings at 1280X960, Mouse Filtering On, Mouse is at 5.7, Sound High, etc.

[D_Struct]

i just purchased it and got it all loaded up. i'll probably be checking it out later in the day.

i also get my dvd burner today! w00t!