Erkki

I hesitated...

Try the www.planethalflife.com forums. I think I saw similar problems posted there. And it seemed to me that all who had the problems had the CD version... (it might have been some other forums though) BTW. Does anyone know if it's possible to change Half-Life 2's INPUT language settings? I mean for the whole app. It allows you to change it IN THE CONSOLE, but it does me no good because I CAN'T OPEN THE CONSOLE. ET keyboard waits for a second key press after the ~ key before it outputs a symbol. Of course, I could change the shortcut key in the config file, but I don't want to.

Thanx, toblix. I decided (for various reasons) to uninstall steam and install it to a different folder now, but man, Steam is weird ... (I also decided I'd let it re-download HL2 and everything else) It said it had downloaded HL2 100% and I executed it. Now it displayed the loading screen for minutes ... then I managed to get back to my desktop and discovered Steam is actually still downloading. 66% done. Why the hell did it have to do that in a loading screen that only displays a blurry image and the text "Loading". The MP is great, but all the servers with good ping are full.

Just great. The SDK expects Steam to be installed in somewhere that doesn't have a space in the pathname. I have it in G: \Program Files\Valve\Steam... If I try to run something from Hammer it says gameinfo.txt not present in G: \Program Damn... to compile the source code you need Visual Studio .NET. I have the previous version....

Heh... I thought Half-Life 2 was a bit too bright with my settings. Now I ran the deathmatch and the intended brightness seems to be even way higher (if I looked at the internal gamma adjusters sample text). Especially the prison level. That was a lot darker in singleplayer with my default settings.

Still strange that I have the same video card and almost every game sets the gamma to 1 when it starts... Except maybe I need higher gamma values than yours. I have it set to 2.0 in the ATI CPanel and most games let you set it to 1.5 or something when they have internal gamma adjustment. And many of the modern adventure games with prerendered backgrounds and 3D characters RESET it IN EVERY SCREEN. So enter new screen -> adjust gamma. That's only in the demos though, haven't played any full AGs lately.

Downloading now... Also the SDK is released. Wohoo!

Color -> (select Full Screen 3D) -> Hotkeys

How come there have been no threads about San Andreas after it's out? Compared to HL2.... How many of you are/were playing it? Is/was it awesome? Damn I'm being masochistic here, I probably won't play it till it comes out on PC.

I think the Steam issues are part of the same case (Counter-Claims?) but only part of the case was resolved now.

Kingz, do you have a NVIDIA card? Because I have an ATI Radeon and EVERY FUCKING GAME (except one or two) ignores my gamma setting. Including HL2. Also most games set my desktop gamma to 1 after quitting. FlatOut is one of the few of late that almost don't mess with my gamma at all. The first time after turning the puter on it needs adjusting, but after that it seems to remember... Luckily with ATI I can make keyboard shortcuts for in-game brightness/contrast/gamma manipulation.

I've been using Thunderbird for about 3 weeks now, and it finally started recognizing all the spam! Wohoo! Today it only left 3 spam messages in my inbox and recognized about 80 as junk.

Which version is better? (I don't know if anyone else has covered it, that's why the other option)

How's that game coming along? Haven't heard much about it lately. I allowed myself to get excited about it in 2000 (or was it even the end of 1999). Anyway it's been about 5 years since it was announced. All I know is that Bethesda is publishing it now. I hope it's not going to end up like Simon3D?

I'd suggest FlatOut if the drivers didn't fly out the windshield...

I think he's just insane.

But it's freezing outside. Below zero anyway.

I'm gonna get mine downgraded from 2MBits to 1Mbits in a few days. They had temporarily raised the speed to lure customers to more costly packages. I pay about 33 euros. Or maybe it was even 26. The upload sucks though. Only 256 kbits.

Yeah, same here.

Damn... my t-shirts are oddly shaped or something. the collar won't end up centered... [edit]oh, I got it now. but I can't get it as perfect as that video...

Wow! Gotta try that. I suck at folding too. Trep, I always suspected Marek was a bot.

Don't take me too seriously...

Why do you always say Rusalka? That only makes the name sound unlikely and fake

Damn all you cross-posters.

X stands for cool.