Valve and NVIDIA Offer Portal: First Slice Free to GeForce Users

malware · Jan 9, 2008

The most recent Steam Hardware Survey shows more Steam gamers play on NVIDIA GeForce hardware than any other graphics platform. In an effort to further support this popular PC gaming configuration - Steam games plus NVIDIA hardware - Valve and NVIDIA have entered into an agreement to collaborate on development, distribution, events, and more. Effective immediately, all NVIDIA gamers may receive a free copy of Portal: First Slice, a special version of the award-winning new game from Valve, by visiting http://www.steamgames.com/nvidia1 and "Taking the test." Steam will then auto-detect the presence of NVIDIA hardware and make Portal: First Slice available immediately, free of charge. To make it easy for all NVIDIA customers to redeem this offer, a link to the Steam offer will also be included in all NVIDIA drivers.

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jurrasstoil · Jan 9, 2008

what exactly is the difference between Portal and Portal: First slice?

ktr · Jan 9, 2008

From what i am reading at the official steam forums, its seems to be the first 4-5 levels of portal...no new maps.

jurrasstoil · Jan 9, 2008

wow, sounds like its absolutly worth my time... not.
Already played Portal.

JacKz5o · Jan 9, 2008

ktr said:
From what i am reading at the official steam forums, its seems to be the first 4-5 levels of portal...no new maps.

Yeah.. I thought this was going to be an expansion or something. :cool:

ktr · Jan 9, 2008

JacKz5o said:
Yeah.. I thought this was going to be an expansion or something.

bummer, i guess. Peeps are saying about 10 min of gameplay.

Darknova · Jan 9, 2008

By Special they mean retarded.

bruins004 · Jan 9, 2008

The first 5 - 6 levels of Portal are really quick.
Heck, it doesnt get hard until much later in the game.

ShadowFold · Jan 9, 2008

First slice lol I got black box free :pimp:

warup89 · Jan 9, 2008

Didn't ATI users got Death match for free? i think thats a better offer. :rolleyes:

ktr · Jan 9, 2008

warup89 said:
Didn't ATI users got Death match for free? i think thats a better offer.

You get deathmatch and lost coast and peggy extreme free with this offer.

jonnyferrari · Jan 9, 2008

Thanks im tryin it out right now. I just hope steam dont catch my 4 cracked games of theirs lol.

EastCoasthandle · Jan 9, 2008

Anyone notice TWIMTBP logo when starting steam? When I saw that I wondered if my frame rates would start to decrease when playing TF2 :rolleyes:

BloodTotal · Jan 10, 2008

What awesomeness, now I have deathmatch!!! cool

ShadowFold · Jan 10, 2008

So wait is Valve now with Nvidia? That is so uber lame, im sorry but ATi and Valve have always been close.

BloodTotal · Jan 10, 2008

So wait is Valve now with Nvidia? That is so uber lame, im sorry but ATi and Valve have always been close.

not close enough

Ravenas · Jan 10, 2008

Next were going to see Half-Life 3 with that gay little "the way its meant to be played" slogan.

ktr · Jan 10, 2008

Well, i think this offer is still going on for ati owners...i think.

http://www.steampowered.com/ati_offer1a/

Dangle · Jan 10, 2008

ktr said:
From what i am reading at the official steam forums, its seems to be the first 4-5 levels of portal...no new maps.

Oh so it's a free demo of the game for pwning an NVidia card. That's cool, but I got Episode 2, Portal, And Team Fortres 2 (black box) for free for pwning a 2900.

mysticjon · Jan 10, 2008

yeah Portal MP anybody???

woozers · Jan 10, 2008

These news make me sad.

thegave · Jan 10, 2008

ShadowFold said:
So wait is Valve now with Nvidia? That is so uber lame, im sorry but ATi and Valve have always been close.

I'm sorry, what?

feels like a knife in the ribs. especially after making the painful decision to get an X1950pro rather than a 7600gs.

Assimilator · Jan 10, 2008

I don't think anyone should worry about the partnership between Valve and ATI; this is what you find if you do a "view source" on the page at http://www.steampowered.com/nvidia/ (highlighted in red for your convenience):

francis511 · Jan 10, 2008

It`s a REALLY short demo. You only get a demo of peggle as well

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