Left 4 Dead

[Chryonn]

double up the Uzi

 

[PVTCaboose1337]

I just want more guns and the ability to customize them. Like attach scopes, grips, 203's etc.

+1, everyone wants their M16 with an M203 on front.

 

[HossHuge]

do i need to run steam if I buy the boxed version of left for dead? I don't mind activating it but I don't wont to use steam to play it.

thanks

 

[ChromeDome]

yeah pretty sure their is no way around that. i mean i can't say for certain, but i'm 99.5% sure. i'm sure someone else will come in with the other .5% and seal the deal

whats the problem with STEAM?

 

[HossHuge]

Well first i don't like being forced to use it. Second you cant sell the games when you are finished. Third I bought the orange box (Half life 2 I loved) but could never play since their servers were always busy.

 

[Homeless]

I just upgraded my video card to a radeon 4850 and the game looks wonderful. However I am now experiencing errors in the game. In the second level of Death Toll just after you climb up the broken stair case ladder and go out the window, my games loses all textures and my game drops to 20 fps. Anyone know why this occurs? Running card @ stock btw

 

[Homeless]

I managed to get replicate the error again in a different spot.

Not as bad as I described earlier, but similar in a sense. My frames drop by 4x and my textures become corrupted as well as a high pitched sound begins playing through my speakers.

Happens at stock settings and happens with the card underclocked to the lowest allowable in CCC. Temps never hit above 75c. Happens with CPU at stock too.

 

[AphexDreamer]

Well first i don't like being forced to use it. Second you cant sell the games when you are finished. Third I bought the orange box (Half life 2 I loved) but could never play since their servers were always busy.

You need steam. That issue has since been addressed, you will no longer get the issue of the servers always being busy. Valve goes in conjunction with steam, I think they developed it to begin with, so every valve game you get is going to want you to install steam. They are constantly updating all there games and they way in which to receive these updates is through steam. Now as for selling the games the only way you could do that is by selling your whole steam account as in giving your user account name and password to the person who gave you the cash for it or wait and see perhaps if Steam will come with an update allowing for that option. Honestly though I find no real reason to end up selling any game I've got off of steam. Steam is great way to find people to play online with and meet new friends, plus if you wanted to play with everyone here on TPU you can, all thanks to Steam.

 

[AphexDreamer]

I managed to get replicate the error again in a different spot.

Not as bad as I described earlier, but similar in a sense. My frames drop by 4x and my textures become corrupted as well as a high pitched sound begins playing through my speakers.

Happens at stock settings and happens with the card underclocked to the lowest allowable in CCC. Temps never hit above 75c. Happens with CPU at stock too.

I think I remember someone else with a Radeon HD4850 having the same issue. So I believe it has something to do with the ati driver or perhaps the way it was installed. Did you uninstall completely the old driver of your old card before installing the new ones by using Driver Cleaner in safe mode?

 

[Homeless]

I think I remember someone else with a Radeon HD4850 having the same issue. So I believe it has something to do with the ati driver or perhaps the way it was installed. Did you uninstall completely the old driver of your old card before installing the new ones by using Driver Cleaner in safe mode?

Drivers were cleaned using both driver cleaner and driver sweeper in safe mode before installing the new card. I don't have the slightest clue as to why these problems occur on my new card especially the audio problem as none of these problems exist on my radeon 4550

 

[PVTCaboose1337]

I have no problem and I have the 4850 as well.

 

[ChromeDome]

You need steam. That issue has since been addressed, you will no longer get the issue of the servers always being busy. Valve goes in conjunction with steam, I think they developed it to begin with, so every valve game you get is going to want you to install steam. They are constantly updating all there games and they way in which to receive these updates is through steam. Now as for selling the games the only way you could do that is by selling your whole steam account as in giving your user account name and password to the person who gave you the cash for it or wait and see perhaps if Steam will come with an update allowing for that option. Honestly though I find no real reason to end up selling any game I've got off of steam. Steam is great way to find people to play online with and meet new friends, plus if you wanted to play with everyone here on TPU you can, all thanks to Steam.

i love me some STEAM for all these same reasons. used to not like it, but then i got more games that used it and saw it was pretty cool. and i don't have to load no poopty discs in my DVD drive to play a game. and when i want to uninstall i just go to STEAM, click once and its gone. nice and clean

plus i will never sell this game no way, no how. they'll have to pry this game from my cold, dead hands when i leave this earth

 

[Chryonn]

that graphical issue also happened with me once with my GeForce card. i've experienced it before with older Valve games, it's something to do with the shiny reflective texture not being read right so it appears as purple. on L4D it only happened once and i thought i'd have to re-install the game. it seemed to correct itself when the map restarted.

i also like Steam, for all the reasons pointed above. the only downside is the re-selling part. i had similar qualms when buying DoD:S since i only played the original version, i wasn't sure how the newer version played (this was before they did free-weekends). but all that's passed now and i think it's a great way of trying to combat the pirates by allowing you to download the entire game then wait for them to release the unlock code on release day.

 

[HossHuge]

I have heard such good things about this game I will give Valve another try. But If I still have problems I may have to carry out the evil deeds I had planned for them while I waited to play Half Life 2.

You need steam. That issue has since been addressed, you will no longer get the issue of the servers always being busy. Valve goes in conjunction with steam, I think they developed it to begin with, so every valve game you get is going to want you to install steam. They are constantly updating all there games and they way in which to receive these updates is through steam. Now as for selling the games the only way you could do that is by selling your whole steam account as in giving your user account name and password to the person who gave you the cash for it or wait and see perhaps if Steam will come with an update allowing for that option. Honestly though I find no real reason to end up selling any game I've got off of steam. Steam is great way to find people to play online with and meet new friends, plus if you wanted to play with everyone here on TPU you can, all thanks to Steam.

 

[Castiel]

I managed to get replicate the error again in a different spot.

Not as bad as I described earlier, but similar in a sense. My frames drop by 4x and my textures become corrupted as well as a high pitched sound begins playing through my speakers.

Happens at stock settings and happens with the card underclocked to the lowest allowable in CCC. Temps never hit above 75c. Happens with CPU at stock too.

What is that showing your FPS in the bottom right corner?

 

[TRIPTEX_CAN]

net_graph 1 in the console I believe. I have it enabled also.. it gives an actual numeric value for your ping among other things.

 

[RevengE]

do i need to run steam if I buy the boxed version of left for dead? I don't mind activating it but I don't wont to use steam to play it.

thanks

steam is a piece of crap.

 

[Homeless]

I have no problem and I have the 4850 as well.

May I ask what your ingame settings are?

What is that showing your FPS in the bottom right corner?

It's net_graph 1

I found that disabling AA/AF eliminates texture corruption, but my other problems still exist

 

[ajzustra]

after we update our vid card..I was thinking about trying this game out. the info out on it sounds great! good to see many are into it.

 

[Castiel]

after we update our vid card..I was thinking about trying this game out. the info out on it sounds great! good to see many are into it.

Yeah it is a fun game.

 

[Chryonn]

personally i never tire of this game despite it's four campaigns. sure you can predict when the Tank will come or listen for the horde music cue, but for me it's the teammates that make it a unique experience everytime. there's also the point that said teammates can agree on a set achievement goal at the beginning.

 

[DaedalusHelios]

steam is a piece of crap.

I totally agree. I would rather read release notes to see if I like the changes than a patch forced on me. What if it makes a game less enjoyable for you? "OOpps sorry" won't cut it if you payed for the game.

 

[Super XP]

steam is a piece of crap.

I would have to agree. Unfortunately we are stuck with it for the time being unless they can fix it somehow.

 

[Valkyrie Horde]

I love this game, can't wait till some new updates come.

 

[DaedalusHelios]

I would have to agree. Unfortunately we are stuck with it for the time being unless they can fix it somehow.

I use the single player in steam-free because I cracked it. I have the steam version aswell in the proper steam directory for multi-player. Someone on the scene made it so you could avoid using steam altogether for multiplayer too but I haven't tried that yet.