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Steam Update Will Save Users' Games
Steam users will no longer need to worry about their saved games being wiped away with their hard drives.
Posted by MadKill40 on May 31st, 2008 digg this super bookmark
Steam users will no longer need to worry about their saved games being wiped away with their hard drives.
Valve has announced a new free service, called Steam Cloud, that will keep its users' saved games and configurations stored online. The service is starting off with support for in-house games, such as the Half-Life series and upcoming Left 4 Dead game, as well as CounterStrike (key mappings).
The saved data, initially stored to hard drive if a player is offline, will be added to the network the next time she or he is online again. Valve is also weighing whether to store replay and kill-cam videos from online games like Team Fortress 2. Steam Cloud, which will also be made available for free to other developers, is set for release "in the near future."
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You didn't mention the other "problem" they want to introduce: force driver updates through steam! Like if stealing your save games is not already enough they also try now to kill your pc by forcing "their" driver updates on you.
it'll be an option saying yes/no.
besides whats wrong with keeping peoples drivers up to date? 'theirs' will be the Nvidia or ATI ones etc.
Because there are people like me which have to use older drivers since the new ones fail ( install, bang 800x600 with 4-bit colors... reason? nVidia thinks my comp is a Win2K although it's a fuking XP! ). Forcing updates is the worst unless you can guarantee that the update does not turn a users computer into a pile of dust. And imagine what would have happened to a common user if he ended up with a fuxed up display with Roll-Back failing ( nvidia manages to install drivers in a way that rollback is disabled on them ).
you can easily get a new computer that is better than that for like...100-200 :/
Depending on where you live.
That's not the problem. Buying a new rig doesn't mean their drivers do work. Furthermore not everyone wants to buy a new rig just because the newest driver horribly messes up their computer. That's the reason why you should be able to choose what version of a driver you use. After all graphic card drivers are damn complex and the chance of one version failing is utterly high. Therefore forcing driver updates is the worst you can do to your customers.
I was talking about you tbh. Get a new one if your system is that out of date D:'
no offence[if anyone can take offence to that]
But yea...most likely Steam will just give you a message saying 'you may want to update your driver, do you want to update it now?'
Ok | No
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In all...wait for the complaints before going. "I WAS RIGHT HAHAHA...SUCKERS!"
I doubt my rig is outdated... :D . It's just the nVidia drivers cough up badly on it. In general I have very bad experiences with high-performance drivers. They fail more than not :( .
Well it seems like a great idea. But to be honest my only beef with steam is that I have to use it if I want to access half-life or my half-life mods, rather than it simply being an option.