i really liked portal hopefully the sequel doesnt disappoint

half life episode 3 will launch together?

got support also wont have fun playing

u already paid for that 9600M GT chip. this is its time to shine~ hehe

so far valve games are pretty forgiving. im guessing the 9400M can play smoothly at low quality. no way to test cuz in bootcamp can only use 9600

This post has been edited by dvlzplayground: May 3 2010, 02:48 AM

agreed. there's a reason y parallels desktop n vmware fusion are selling really good

how u guys get the fps count?

btw portal runs smooth on my MBP hehe. had to turn on vsync though, i didnt need this in XP last time. im not sure if colour correction got impact or not...i turn it off cuz i think it looks better that way

haha same here.. 3 hours gameplay i got a bug though... can't see through my portals after a few levels

ah yes, everyday i launch steam got updates around 20-35mb... what's up with that?

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Added on May 15, 2010, 2:33 pmAlso, i get stuck on the "Updating Steam...Verifying installation" pop up. it doesnt seem to do anything still can use Steam during this though

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Added on May 15, 2010, 2:36 pmoh good news, after patching today, the can't see through portals thing is solved. yey!

This post has been edited by dvlzplayground: May 15 2010, 02:36 PM

just try ur luck. i got through all advanced chambers and also got gold on all chambers with least portals yesterday without running into any bugs

i'll just wait for valve to fix it.

is there a way to set steam to launch in offline mode on default?

the downloaded files shud be here:

Users/~/Documents/Steam Content

anyone know how to make steam launch in offline mode by default?

cant wait for TF2....

also cant wait for someone 2 teach me how to play

I did some simple benchmarking on Portal comparing the 9600M GT and the 9400M.

GeForce 9600M GT

this is the recommended settings:



with recommended settings: 29 fps
all maximum except for texture detail on Medium: 29 fps
all maximum settings: 8 fps

the only issue for my system is texture, which is due to limited graphics RAM (256mb). those who have the 512mb ram should do better. the current MBP with geforce 330M should feel about the same lah. anything over 30fps isn't really noticeable, very smooth already

GeForce 9400M

recommended settings:



with recommended settings: 45 fps
configured to settings as recommended or 9600M GT (1st picture): 15 fps (50% decrease)

since MBW and MBP 13 only has a maximum resolution of 1280x800, this is what i would recommend for 9400M. can get 29 fps.



geforce 320M should do better, but not as good as the 9600M GT.

hopefully this is helpful

This post has been edited by dvlzplayground: May 20 2010, 12:17 AM

no piracy discussion here please. btw it's not ported yet. one day lah...im looking forward to it suddenly i miss CS

ya windows game only work in windows. u can buy the games through steam, or u can wait until u can buy the games as retailers.

thx for sharing! but where's episode 3~~~

currently updating my steam...will post improvements later

i hope HL2 and Episode 1 is free for those who bought the orange box

im not really sure on the procedure here...

i own the orange box. in the Steam app, under Library > Games, HL2 is listed there. i clicked on "Install" n now im downloading HL2 but the size is only 1013 MB

doesnt look correct :S how eh?

i guess Bunkerer is correct. i already download portal, so i already have the whole steam engine thing on. so steam juz downloads the necessary files for HL2. damn that's smart

i tried out HL2 a bit... until the part where i met alyx. no problems so far. have to continue on my assignments now