[Ante P]

Originally Posted by Althornin

because anything above that is actually kindof irrelevant for thier (and most people's) purposes....

ehh
surely it's irrelevant for gaming but it's crucial to their steam delivery system...

I mean those poor bastards with 256 k won't have fun downloading HL2 via steam

[kyleb]

from what i understand, they plan to have things set up where you can start downloading and be able to play after the engine and a small portion of the content is received, then you can play while the rest of the game is being downloaded.

[T2k]

THis whole survey is a piace of crap. Detects false things, card listings makes no sense (50% other than NV or ATI????), everything is crappy.

Dunno who's in charge at Valve but it's definitely a crap - shows everything very far from reality.

EDIT: typos

[T2k]

Originally Posted by Ante P

Why the hell are they only specifying up to 1 mbit network bandwidth?? :?

Yeah, that bugs me too... 1.5Mbit DSL is now under $50, 3Mbit DSL under $100 per month almost everywhere in Continental US and all the cable companies give you 2-3Mbit downlink at least (not to mention Cablevision's 10Mbit) for the same price, between $40-$60 monthly.

[Dave B(TotalVR)]

Hmmm, 43,000 people dont use D3D, software or OGL as their renderer.....


That'll be the CS h4x0rzz

[kyleb]

Originally Posted by T2k

THis whole survey is a piace of crap. Detects false things, card listings makes no sense (50% other than NV or ATI????), everything is crappy.

Dunno who's in charge at Valve but it's definitely a crap - shows everything very far from reality.

EDIT: typos

lol, it seems you are just having trouble reading the results; the server doesn't show anything close to 50% other on the card listings.

[Ante P]

Originally Posted by T2k

Yeah, that bugs me too... 1.5Mbit DSL is now under $50, 3Mbit DSL under $100 per month almost everywhere in Continental US and all the cable companies give you 2-3Mbit downlink at least (not to mention Cablevision's 10Mbit) for the same price, between $40-$60 monthly.

Sweden is pretty sweet, especially my home town:
100/100 mbit, unlimited traffic: 39 USD/month

[karlotta]

Originally Posted by T2k

Yeah, that bugs me too... 1.5Mbit DSL is now under $50, 3Mbit DSL under $100 per month almost everywhere in Continental US and all the cable companies give you 2-3Mbit downlink at least (not to mention Cablevision's 10Mbit) for the same price, between $40-$60 monthly.

Pifft no it is not! maybe in NYC but not LA or SF or Seatle or Denver or anywhere more than X Feet from the hardware like me and about 200mil other telephone line users. Not even in your wildist dreams is 1.5 dsl everywhere in the USA. as for the cable download BS. maybe in NYC but most everywhere else you are capped well before that, 1mb is the norm if your lucky. and that 10mb is very very select not even worth talking about at this moment.125kb is the norm for DSL with 350kb the next.