[TRON] Squad Continued...

Post by **TRON.dll** » Sat Aug 02, 2008 12:26 pm

Avi wrote:Just a heads up:

There's a pretty cool racing game called TrackMania Nations Forever. It's a free download via Steam, but I'm not sure where to find it now. Just look for that name on your Steam program and it should come up. There's also a pay version of the game, but we just play the free one.

Since your PC can now handle it, go pick up BF2 for ten bucks at Circuit City or Best Buy.

Downloading...

Post by **TRON.dll** » Sat Aug 02, 2008 8:23 pm

Hey, how come when I download stuff via Steam, it starts at about 1 MB/s and then drops down to around 750 KB/s? It's kinda annoying and makes for some very long download times..

Post by **Avi** » Sat Aug 02, 2008 8:38 pm

Wha...?

Never had that problem. Steam is usually pretty good about DL speeds.

Post by **Layer** » Sat Aug 02, 2008 9:21 pm

@ the 750KB/s complaint

It's not like it's dropping down to 56 KB/s

Post by **TRON.dll** » Sat Aug 02, 2008 11:49 pm

Which ones of you's have TrackMania? Or is there a way to tell on your Steam accounts?

Post by **Avi** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 1:22 am

Trackmania doesn't show up in your Steam games list. As far as I know, 9Volt, Anderson, Jademz, and I have it. Possibly a few others, but no one that hangs out in LDSO.

Post by **TRON.dll** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 3:53 am

Avi wrote:Has anyone ever had any problem with Battlefield 2142 closing to the desktop while trying to load a map? It seems to happen when it gets to the part where it optimizes the shaders if you changed your video settings or are loading it from a fresh installation. All of my drivers are up to date. This has gone on all week, until last night when I was finally able to load the Camp Gibraltar map and play a round online. When I was finished, I loaded BF Vietnam and in the middle of my 2nd round the game disappeared also. Should I delete the entire EA Games folder and reinstall everything again? I installed BF 2142 3 times this week before I finally got it to load a map. All of my other games run really good...HL2, Far Cry, etc.

Any ideas?

Sorry, kinda late response here..

I was playing against someone in TRON 2.0 once, and they said that steam went to their desktop. I can't think of who that was, though...

It's likely a problem with Steam, and not BF 2142. That's what I think, anyways.

Regarding TrackMania:
When you register freinds in TrackMania, does the game want their TrackMania account name, or their Steam account name?

Post by **Avi** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 8:26 am

BF 2142 is not a Steam game. The two have nothing to do with each other.

Trackmania wants their TM name, not Steam account name.

Post by **TRON.dll** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 9:12 am

Avi wrote:BF 2142 is not a Steam game. The two have nothing to do with each other.

Same with TRON 2.0...

Trackmania wants their TM name, not Steam account name.

Alright, should we start a Track Mania thread to share TM names?

Post by **Avi** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 11:04 am

Mine is av1tr0n.

Written out as A-V-One-T-R-Zero-N...I'm surprised at how many people catch the 1, but put a letter O instead of a zero.

EDIT:
For Nvidia owners: click on the link below, and you can DL some HL2 stuff for free. You get the Portal First Slice demo, as well as HL2 Deathmatch, the Lost Coast, and Peggle Extreme.

http://www.steampowered.com/nvidia/

I think there's a free offer for ATI Radeon owners as well, but not sure.

Post by **TRON.dll** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 11:22 am

Avi wrote:Mine is av1tr0n.

Written out as A-V-One-T-R-Zero-N...I'm surprised at how many people catch the 1, but put a letter O instead of a zero.

EDIT:
For Nvidia owners: click on the link below, and you can DL some HL2 stuff for free. You get the Portal First Slice demo, as well as HL2 Deathmatch, the Lost Coast, and Peggle Extreme.

http://www.steampowered.com/nvidia/

I think there's a free offer for ATI Radeon owners as well, but not sure.

That "First Slice" offer has been around for quite a while. It was spawned from a partnership that Valve (or Steam, idk) had with NVIDIA. I doubt that there's an offer there for ATI owners.

EDIT: I checked out that offer, Avi. I was wondering, what is the HL2: Lost Coast thing? Do I neccisarily need it to play MP with you guys, or do I just want the Deathmatch demo?

Post by **Avi** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 11:46 am

There is an offer for ATI, but it doesn't include the Portal demo...just the HL2 games.

The Lost Coast is a single level game for HL2. It's not that long, but it's fun to play through at least once. There's no multiplayer for it, but it comes with a video stress test which will tell you what your FPS is for HL2.

HL2 Deathmatch is multiplayer only, and although not many of us play it, it's still a cool little game. You can use your gravity gun to hurl objects that are lying on the ground at your opponents. Probably the only game where you can kill someone with a toilet.

Post by **TRON.dll** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 12:32 pm

Alright, I might give it a shot..

Also, I added you on Track Mania, my name is "tron.dll" without the quotes.

Post by **Avi** » Sun Aug 10, 2008 8:09 pm

Here's a cool screen from tonight. I was playing in the Right To Rule 24/7 Avalanche server, and I was dominating this kid named Shoo. He finally sneaks up on me and blasts me, but not before a few team members lined him up in their sights. What resulted is this screenshot of poor Shoo being blown away as soon as he extracted his revenge on me. Notice the sparks on the bricks as bullets ricocheted all around him, giving poor Shoo little chance of survival.

Post by **Daddyo** » Sun Aug 10, 2008 9:27 pm

Hey tried that track mania nations forever, all those custom maps really can be pretty bad, but not a bad game for being free.