PC Game Downloads

Aastii

VIP Member
right with steam i get like 2.2mbs downloads its crazy fast!!!!

6.8... all I'm saying :p

If you haven't used steam before, check every weekend and every Tuesday evening/Wednesday. They have some excellent deals on. To give you an idea, I have just over 60 (I think) games in my Steam library acquired over 2 and a bit years, and an average price of ~£4 per game. That isn't with just random games either, I've got all of the Valve games (Orange Box, Team Fortress, Left 4 Dead etc) CoD4, CoD: WaW, MW2, Battlefield, Crysis, GRID, some very "high profile" games for super cheap
 

ChrisUlrich

Active Member
I just got Steam today.

6.8 down?! That's ridiculous! I was a ready 5.1. What is your service? What's your mbps? That's gotta be almost 54000mbps!

Where do you check for those deals? I will definitely keep that in mind!

And I can download these games whenever I want? How does this work now?
 

Aastii

VIP Member
I just got Steam today.

6.8 down?! That's ridiculous! I was a ready 5.1. What is your service? What's your mbps? That's gotta be almost 54000mbps!

Where do you check for those deals? I will definitely keep that in mind!

And I can download these games whenever I want? How does this work now?

50Mb/s, no download limit, but we regularly get well above that. When we were on 20Mb/s we were regularly getting closer to 24. We are with Virgin, can not fault them on a single thing. Only time I ever experience slow net is when they are performing maintenance, the longest period of which was about half an hour, but that is only once every maybe 3-6 months at most :D

You can check your download speeds through Steam. When you are downloading a game it will tell you how quickly it is coming down. You have to remember it depends on server load. Saying I get 6.8, that isn't all the time, just a lot of it. Sometimes it goes down to 2, or even down to ~700KB/s, but it does pick up once load goes down or you raise a place in the queue.

The way it works is you buy a game, then you have a digital copy of it which is bound to your Steam account. You can log into your Steam account on any computer and your games will be available. Whenever you want to download them, you just go to your games library, download whatever you want, and then once it is finished, play!

It keeps all of your games up to date, makes sure they don't get corrupt, deals with installing all of your DX, .NET framework, anti-cheat systems etc for you, so you don't have to go through the rigmarole of getting the game in a workable condition.

It also has a social system where you can talk to friends, and with most games, invite them to come and play with you. A word of warning with that - if you ever play a game with Punkbuster, such as CoD and BF, you will need to disable the Steam overlay, as it will cause you to be kicked from servers with the message "Disallowed Program/Driver"
 

ChrisUlrich

Active Member
That is all great to know! Very excited I got this program/account now. Seems almost silly not to have it now.

Do you have Mount and Blade?

50Mb/s, no download limit, but we regularly get well above that. When we were on 20Mb/s we were regularly getting closer to 24. We are with Virgin, can not fault them on a single thing. Only time I ever experience slow net is when they are performing maintenance, the longest period of which was about half an hour, but that is only once every maybe 3-6 months at most :D

You can check your download speeds through Steam. When you are downloading a game it will tell you how quickly it is coming down. You have to remember it depends on server load. Saying I get 6.8, that isn't all the time, just a lot of it. Sometimes it goes down to 2, or even down to ~700KB/s, but it does pick up once load goes down or you raise a place in the queue.

The way it works is you buy a game, then you have a digital copy of it which is bound to your Steam account. You can log into your Steam account on any computer and your games will be available. Whenever you want to download them, you just go to your games library, download whatever you want, and then once it is finished, play!

It keeps all of your games up to date, makes sure they don't get corrupt, deals with installing all of your DX, .NET framework, anti-cheat systems etc for you, so you don't have to go through the rigmarole of getting the game in a workable condition.

It also has a social system where you can talk to friends, and with most games, invite them to come and play with you. A word of warning with that - if you ever play a game with Punkbuster, such as CoD and BF, you will need to disable the Steam overlay, as it will cause you to be kicked from servers with the message "Disallowed Program/Driver"
 

Aastii

VIP Member
That is all great to know! Very excited I got this program/account now. Seems almost silly not to have it now.

Do you have Mount and Blade?

Yep, I bought it on Steam deals last week and is easily one of the best purchases I have made. I love it. I got Mount and Blade and Warband, and to be honest, the first Mount and Blade is all right, but Warband makes it the game it should have been. Should point out they are stand alone expansions, so you don't need Mount and Blade to play Warband or the second expansion, which I can't remember the name of right now
 

Scubie67

Active Member
GoG is another place for older games that you cant find anywhere else(I personally havent DL'ed anything from them before though)
 

Twist86

Active Member
GoG is not bad but some of their games are rather crappy "fixes" and can have their own new bugs but not a horrible service. If possible though id find the original and see if you can run it on newer OS first though as the original is always better.
 
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