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General discussion (archive)AMD adds drivers in Steam(37 posts)(37 posts)
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Posted September 17, 2010
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lowyhong: Soon, University lectures will be webcasted through Steam.
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Stuff: No doubt we will need a Steam account to listen . . . 8 )

A much better way to do online teaching without the Steam Virus
Posted September 18, 2010
I asked my wife for some lovin' last night and she told me to sign in to Steam...
Posted September 18, 2010
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StingingVelvet: I asked my wife for some lovin' last night and she told me to sign in to Steam...

Well you have restrictive DRM because a copy of you would lead to a lawsuit and maybe also a virus.
Better play it safe and wait until there's a sale because of dwindling attention.
Posted September 18, 2010
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chautemoc: It's proven in countless benchmarks you get significantly better performance with newer drivers. I recommend you install the newest and compare before and after. You will surely be pleased.

Knowing how many times I had to rollback drivers to a previous version because the latest one caused crash with game X or Y, always installing the latest drivers without checking first for known issue could be a double edged sword... especially for GoG users playing older games.
About Steam auto-updating... honestly I don't care at all, even if I was letting Steam auto-start at windows start-up it would probably be something I would deactivate anyway.
I would rather have hardware manufacturer enable their drivers to interact with windows updater instead than using yet another third party program for that.
Posted September 18, 2010
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chautemoc: It's proven in countless benchmarks you get significantly better performance with newer drivers. I recommend you install the newest and compare before and after. You will surely be pleased.
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Gersen: Knowing how many times I had to rollback drivers to a previous version because the latest one caused crash with game X or Y, always installing the latest drivers without checking first for known issue could be a double edged sword... especially for GoG users playing older games.
About Steam auto-updating... honestly I don't care at all, even if I was letting Steam auto-start at windows start-up it would probably be something I would deactivate anyway.
I would rather have hardware manufacturer enable their drivers to interact with windows updater instead than using yet another third party program for that.

The way XBox patches are handled, this would probably mean that drivers will not be allowed to be bigger than 4mb and you would need to pay 60$ per year to get them.
Posted September 18, 2010
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Bodyless: The way XBox patches are handled, this would probably mean that drivers will not be allowed to be bigger than 4mb and you would need to pay 60$ per year to get them.

Then again having them through Steam will probable mean that you will need to have the Steam client running if you want to use your graphic card :)
More seriously I wasn't thinking using GFWL but using Windows updater like it's already the case for some drivers.
Posted September 18, 2010
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Gersen: Knowing how many times I had to rollback drivers to a previous version because the latest one caused crash with game X or Y, always installing the latest drivers without checking first for known issue could be a double edged sword... especially for GoG users playing older games.
About Steam auto-updating... honestly I don't care at all, even if I was letting Steam auto-start at windows start-up it would probably be something I would deactivate anyway.
I would rather have hardware manufacturer enable their drivers to interact with windows updater instead than using yet another third party program for that.
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Bodyless: The way XBox patches are handled, this would probably mean that drivers will not be allowed to be bigger than 4mb and you would need to pay 60$ per year to get them.
... do people really think the patches/downloads require gold accounts?
Posted September 18, 2010
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wodmarach: ... do people really think the patches/downloads require gold accounts?

Yes, yes they do. I know from experience they're talking bull. (And if you have a larger than 4Mb patch, do what Burnout Paradise did and release it for free to your PS3 version as well to get Microsoft to bend over and release it there for free as well. It's one of the reasons why Steamworks is included in the PS3 version of Portal 2.)
Posted September 18, 2010
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DelusionsBeta: Yes, yes they do. I know from experience they're talking bull. (And if you have a larger than 4Mb patch, do what Burnout Paradise did and release it for free to your PS3 version as well to get Microsoft to bend over and release it there for free as well. It's one of the reasons why Steamworks is included in the PS3 version of Portal 2.)

If that's true one wonders why companies pander to Microsoft's stupid rules instead of just releasing massive patches and free content on the PS3 and PC to make them look terrible, forcing their hand.
Valve is the only one to do this that I know of. If more joined in it could cause an avalanche.
Posted September 18, 2010
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DelusionsBeta: Yes, yes they do. I know from experience they're talking bull. (And if you have a larger than 4Mb patch, do what Burnout Paradise did and release it for free to your PS3 version as well to get Microsoft to bend over and release it there for free as well. It's one of the reasons why Steamworks is included in the PS3 version of Portal 2.)
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StingingVelvet: If that's true one wonders why companies pander to Microsoft's stupid rules instead of just releasing massive patches and free content on the PS3 and PC to make them look terrible, forcing their hand.
Valve is the only one to do this that I know of. If more joined in it could cause an avalanche.
EA does and you'll find EA games have patches ALOT larger than 4mb on the xbox i think gabe was just talking shit tbh he could release the patches at any time on the xbox but won't ask epic they did it with GOW and a few others too
Posted September 18, 2010
Do not want. A PC is not a console and I want to control WHEN and WHY to update something. Weird stuff....
Posted September 18, 2010
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KingofGnG: Do not want. A PC is not a console and I want to control WHEN and WHY to update something. Weird stuff....
It's just a pop up like the "new in store" ones you get you don't have to install it just lets you know it's available
Posted September 18, 2010
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Bodyless: The way XBox patches are handled, this would probably mean that drivers will not be allowed to be bigger than 4mb and you would need to pay 60$ per year to get them.
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Gersen: Then again having them through Steam will probable mean that you will need to have the Steam client running if you want to use your graphic card :)

Very good idea - Lock games at the video card level and there will be no way to play them even if they are cracked. ;-)
Posted September 18, 2010
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Lou: Very good idea - Lock games at the video card level and there will be no way to play them even if they are cracked. ;-)

Hehe - if you have a card with an HDMI port hooked to a HDMI monitor . . . you already got it . . . =)
Old news - and [url=http://www.acousticsbydesign.com/acoustics-blog/hdmi-to-vga-adapter-problems.htm]here
Posted September 18, 2010
Did people miss the whole 'optional' part, or would that have interfered with a need to complain?
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