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I haven't play HL2 in a few days so I don't know if this is new info or not,
but when I fired up Steam last night it installed a new patch. What it fixed
right off for me was know when I click on the "Update News" button in the
Steam applet It's up to date now. Since I installed the game which was the
third day after release, the update page has never changed. Now it's showing
all the patches and what they do. The biggest fix so far for me is I no
longer have any lag when I quicksave. I was having a lot of stuttering and
the game would hang for about 3 sec after every quicksave. Now there is no
noticeable effect at all. That's a big improvement IMHO. That game seems to
run smoother also. I haven't tested the fps yet but I noticed right away
that the game was running better. I'm still getting a slight stutter when
it's loading a new scene, but it's much better then it was before the patch.
Anyone else notice any changes? JLC
 
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I don't know about all, but I'm pretty sure these patches for
single-player benefit very little people. For most of us, we have
passed this game once, or twice with the painful stuttering and other
bugs. What's the point of releases fixes this late?
 
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"consumer" <ggroups2@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1105759962.480622.243650@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
>I don't know about all, but I'm pretty sure these patches for
> single-player benefit very little people. For most of us, we have
> passed this game once, or twice with the painful stuttering and other
> bugs. What's the point of releases fixes this late?
>

HL2 hasn't been out for that long. I know of a lot of games that got patched
even after being out for a year of more. The game had problems on some PC's
when it was launched. Now Value is trying hard to get the game running good
on everyone's machine. If they didn't have these patches, I bet you'd be
bitching about their lack of support. Valve just can't win with some people.
JLC
 
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On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 14:33:03 -0800, "JLC" <j.jc@nospam.com> wrote:

>The biggest fix so far for me is I no
>longer have any lag when I quicksave. I was having a lot of stuttering and
>the game would hang for about 3 sec after every quicksave. Now there is no
>noticeable effect at all. That's a big improvement IMHO. That game seems to
>run smoother also. I haven't tested the fps yet but I noticed right away
>that the game was running better. I'm still getting a slight stutter when
>it's loading a new scene, but it's much better then it was before the patch.
>Anyone else notice any changes? JLC

Yes, the game is running a lot smoother. The patch notes mention, they
improved the cache handling for systems with greater than 512 megs of
memory. Even 'quickload' is now somewhat quick and also audio stutters
are completely gone.
--
Noman
 
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I haven't played it yet. And I'd be willing to bet there are others as
well.

Mike

"consumer" <ggroups2@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1105759962.480622.243650@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
>I don't know about all, but I'm pretty sure these patches for
> single-player benefit very little people. For most of us, we have
> passed this game once, or twice with the painful stuttering and other
> bugs. What's the point of releases fixes this late?
>
 
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consumer wrote:
> I don't know about all, but I'm pretty sure these patches for
> single-player benefit very little people. For most of us, we have
> passed this game once, or twice with the painful stuttering and other
> bugs. What's the point of releases fixes this late?
>

The idiocy of your comments hit an all time low. Well done.


To paraphrase : "No point fixing problems because it doesn't help me".


--
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On 14 Jan 2005 19:32:42 -0800, "consumer" <ggroups2@yahoo.com> wrote:

>I don't know about all, but I'm pretty sure these patches for
>single-player benefit very little people.

Well I am 5'11" and it benefited me.

> For most of us, we have
>passed this game once, or twice with the painful stuttering and other
>bugs. What's the point of releases fixes this late?

I played it through when it was released, fortunately the game was so
good I forgave it for the occasional stuttering. Now they have sorted
the majority of the stuttering for me, I am very much enjoying
replaying it again.
--
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Help make Usenet a better place: English is read downwards,
please don't top post. Trim replies to quote only relevant text.
Check groups.google.com before asking an obvious question.
 
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consumer wrote:
> I don't know about all, but I'm pretty sure these patches for
> single-player benefit very little people. For most of us, we have
> passed this game once, or twice with the painful stuttering and other
> bugs. What's the point of releases fixes this late?

Er, for the people who haven't already played it. Or the people who want to
play it again. I hate the concept to steam, and it has lowered my opinion
of Valve, but it looks like they just can't win with some people.

--
Morgan.
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On 14 Jan 2005 19:32:42 -0800, "consumer" <ggroups2@yahoo.com> wrote:

>I don't know about all, but I'm pretty sure these patches for
>single-player benefit very little people. For most of us, we have
>passed this game once, or twice with the painful stuttering and other
>bugs. What's the point of releases fixes this late?

For those people who never bought the game at the same time as us or for
people who haven't even bought it yet. They will get to the enjoy the game how
it should have been at release. Personally I envy them a little bit!
 
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"consumer" wrote

>I don't know about all, but I'm pretty sure these patches for
> single-player benefit very little people. For most of us, we have
> passed this game once, or twice with the painful stuttering and other
> bugs. What's the point of releases fixes this late?

I emailed Valve at contact@valvesoftware.com to ask them about that. I got
the reply:

"Thank you for your enquiry.

While it has been our practice in the past to offer game patches exclusively
for the person you know as 'consumer' (real name Gloria); We have now
decided to make them available to other gamers too."
 
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On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, "JLC" wrote:

> on everyone's machine. If they didn't have these patches, I bet you'd be
> bitching about their lack of support. Valve just can't win with some people.
> JLC

we don't trust valve! can't you get it?
they are untrustful people!
i don't believe they will ever again gain trust from gamers
the DAMAGE is done, nothing they can do about it
now they know the game is all about "conquering" the most gamers
possible so they can continue "FEEDING" hungry steam machine

ps: a thread calling itself "latest hl2 patch" is at least stupid
cause you will never know what the latest hl2 patch is or whether
or not you are running it, so why discussing something if its no
longer in your hands?

--
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i said "NO" to valve and steam

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difool <john.difool@mail.telepac.pt> writes:

> controling information is a great weapon, and valve will use
> it to the max!!!!

Four exclamation marks do not make your statements any more
insightful, rather they confirm your status as a Usenet crackpot (for
both the people who were still on the fence on that one).

Please, get a life already. With all the time you've spent ranting
here against Valve and Steam, you could have gone and written your own
FPS, cured cancer, or negotiatged peace in the Middle East.

Nick

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On 14 Jan 2005, "consumer" wrote:

> bugs. What's the point of releases fixes this late?

its all part of the plan, believe me, valve is that wicked
steam will end the notion of alpha, beta and final versions
with steam the publisher can release a game in beta stage
and wait for the own paying costumer to do the testing
they can do it simply cause no paying costumer knows what
version its running... a valve gamer is a ignorant one and
they will use it to their advantage
and because steam makes patching completely "invisible" to
the gamer you can have 2 or 3 patches a day and not knowing

again steam working to benefic the publisher, no more needing
to pay for beta testing and no more bad publicity version x.x
is faulty cause valve gamers are ignorant and will never have
that info

controling information is a great weapon, and valve will use
it to the max!!!!

--
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i said "NO" to valve and steam

please sign petition "Say NO! to Steam!" available at:
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"JLC" <j.jc@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:MtedncY3ceI91XXcRVn-uA@comcast.com...
> I haven't play HL2 in a few days so I don't know if this is new info or
not,
> but when I fired up Steam last night it installed a new patch. What it
fixed
> right off for me was know when I click on the "Update News" button in the
> Steam applet It's up to date now. Since I installed the game which was the
> third day after release, the update page has never changed. Now it's
showing
> all the patches and what they do. The biggest fix so far for me is I no
> longer have any lag when I quicksave. I was having a lot of stuttering and
> the game would hang for about 3 sec after every quicksave. Now there is no
> noticeable effect at all. That's a big improvement IMHO. That game seems
to
> run smoother also. I haven't tested the fps yet but I noticed right away
> that the game was running better. I'm still getting a slight stutter when
> it's loading a new scene, but it's much better then it was before the
patch.
> Anyone else notice any changes? JLC
>
>

I was getting a lot of video struttering during game play. I found a web
site that provided instructions on how to turn off auto-save in the HL2
config file. Turns out that the game was trying to "auto-save" prior to
most of the battle scenes. Now this was about 10 days ago so I don't know
what the latest patch does.

http://www.tweakguides.com/HL2_1.html

A sample autoexec.cfg file content is provided below as an example of what
it should look like:

sv_autosave 0
 
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difool wrote:
>> AUTOmation is valve's dream
> making the gamer a robot... with two simple tasks... paying them
money
> and happily playing the game without questioning and knowing anything
> at all
>


I hope I'm not quoting you out of context, but do you really believe
that Valve want us to pay them money and then happily play the game
without worrying what patch or version number we are using?
What a crazy idea! (btw, how do you indicate sarcasm on Usenet?)
 
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difool wrote:
> i would rather see any publisher releasing a game even
> with beta quality but using the now standard means, the physical
> medium in cd/dvd with no need to any humiliating "activation" than
> using steam
>

Do you use Windows XP?
Do you use a registered version of Winzip? ZoneAlarm? Norton?
Have you ever registered anything to activate a warranty?

Do you have a bank account? Mine are total Steam fascists. Every time I
want to do anything online or over the phone I have to go through this
rigmarole of logging in. I feel so humiliated knowing that it's bloody
hard for someone else to access my account.
 
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On Sun, 16 Jan 2005, "OldDog" wrote:

> A sample autoexec.cfg file content is provided below as an example of what
> it should look like:
>
> sv_autosave 0

you "now" have a CHANCE to turn off auto? lucky you!
i bet valve will make this "turning off" auto features less possible
in the future
AUTOmation is valve's dream
making the gamer a robot... with two simple tasks... paying them money
and happily playing the game without questioning and knowing anything
at all

--
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i said "NO" to valve and steam

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> its all part of the plan, believe me, valve is that wicked
> steam will end the notion of alpha, beta and final versions
> with steam the publisher can release a game in beta stage
> and wait for the own paying costumer to do the testing

You *are* a fool if you think it took the advent of Steam for this to
become a practice.

--

Adam
(Software developer)
 
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On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, Adam Cameron wrote:

> You *are* a fool if you think it took the advent of Steam for this to
> become a practice.

at least now the gamer has means to notice it and be informed but
with steam, valve is making the gamer look like a "fool" cause they
simply don't know what's happening
ignorance is the key word when it comes to valve gamers

and btw... i would rather see any publisher releasing a game even
with beta quality but using the now standard means, the physical
medium in cd/dvd with no need to any humiliating "activation" than
using steam
with steam the gamer in no longer in control and is simply a puppet
in valve's hands

for me its completely ACCEPTABLE patching a game!
what is completely UNACCEPTABLE is STEAM!

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i said "NO" to valve and steam

please sign petition "Say NO! to Steam!" available at:
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"difool" <john.difool@mail.telepac.pt> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 16 Jan 2005, "OldDog" wrote:
>
> > A sample autoexec.cfg file content is provided below as an example of
what
> > it should look like:
> >
> > sv_autosave 0
>
> you "now" have a CHANCE to turn off auto? lucky you!
> i bet valve will make this "turning off" auto features less possible
> in the future
> AUTOmation is valve's dream
> making the gamer a robot... with two simple tasks... paying them money
> and happily playing the game without questioning and knowing anything
> at all
>

I use to write checks.
Drive to the post office and buy some stamps.
Mail the bills out once a month.
Get my paycheck and drive to the bank to deposit it.

Now there's direct depost and automatic bill paying. Thank GOD for
automation. In fact, I couldn't tell you what the price of stamps are or
where the post office is. So call me dumb, dumber, and dumbest. But I
want you to know one thing. I'm a happy dumb fellow. :)
 
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<chadwick110@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> difool wrote:
> >> AUTOmation is valve's dream
> > making the gamer a robot... with two simple tasks... paying them
> money
> > and happily playing the game without questioning and knowing anything
> > at all
> >
>
>
> I hope I'm not quoting you out of context, but do you really believe
> that Valve want us to pay them money and then happily play the game
> without worrying what patch or version number we are using?
> What a crazy idea! (btw, how do you indicate sarcasm on Usenet?)
>

Use the sarcasm key on your keyboard. It's the one between the Insert and
the Delete key. :)


http://www.vocaboly.com/forums/ftopic2466.html

"Sarcasm doesn't play well on the usenet, there is so much kneejerk flame
that it appears as just more of the same. So why not have a mark, when
speaking one uses a sarcastic tone of voice that leaves little doubt as to
their meaning."
 
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