Emasher Posted April 11, 2011 Posted April 11, 2011 (edited) Mafia I and II, plus all the Mafia II DLC are on sale for 75% off on steam right now. 2K is apparently going to have a game on sale every day this week, so we're most likely going to see, Borderlands, Bioshock and the Civilization series on sale at some point. Edited April 11, 2011 by Emasher
Nolan Posted April 11, 2011 Posted April 11, 2011 Anyone know how Dino D-Day is? http://store.steampowered.com/app/70000/ I'm incredibly intrigued just by the sheer stupidity(which may be genius) of the idea. 12 Classes (3 of which are Dino's) in multiplayer craziness.
Emasher Posted April 12, 2011 Posted April 12, 2011 (edited) Bioshock 1 and 2 are $5 each today. I seem to be having incredible difficulty trying to get Bioshock to run. (I'm running Windows 7 64 Bit). Anyway, the first time I ran it, it worked fine, but once I got passed the cut scenes there was no audio. The consensus online seemed to be to run it in xp compatibility mode. I tried this for both SP2 and SP3, and in both cases the game wouldn't launch at all. Sometimes I would keep getting the "Preparing to launch Bioshock" dialog box coming up, then dismissing, and coming up again in an infinite loop. Sometimes the same thing would happen with the "Are you sure you want to let an unknown application from an unknown publisher..." dialog. Eventually it just started working for some reason, however, now it crashes every time I try to change the resolution. Has anyone had a similar problem? Edit: Got it working by deleting: %appdata%/bioshock/bioshock.ini as well as changing the resolution in the default file in the same directory as the executable. Edited April 13, 2011 by Emasher
Daft Posted April 18, 2011 Posted April 18, 2011 I had that problem. Sorted it with the compatibility mode, though. Anyways, just bought Vice City and the piece of crap won't acknowledge my mouse. I've tried both a wired and a wireless one. Any help?? The mouse will highlight stuff in the menu but won't register click and in game it does nothing, not even move the camera.
Emasher Posted April 18, 2011 Posted April 18, 2011 I had that problem. Sorted it with the compatibility mode, though. Anyways, just bought Vice City and the piece of crap won't acknowledge my mouse. I've tried both a wired and a wireless one. Any help?? The mouse will highlight stuff in the menu but won't register click and in game it does nothing, not even move the camera. I had the exact same problem. Once you launch the game, press Control+Shift+Escape to launch task manager, then go to the processes tab and quite windows explorer. It should work fine after that.
Daft Posted April 18, 2011 Posted April 18, 2011 (edited) Windows explorer? What is that process exactly? Isn't that the OS? Edit: Didn't work. Edited April 18, 2011 by Daft
Emasher Posted April 18, 2011 Posted April 18, 2011 No, its just a file manager, try alt+tabing in and out of the game, quitting all other applications (not processes this time, actual applications), and if neither of those work, removing the config files from your documents folder (back up your saves first).
Daft Posted April 18, 2011 Posted April 18, 2011 Yeah, it's still doing the same thing. I give up for now. I'll try again some time next week since Portal will be out soon. Thanks for the help.
Sméagol Posted April 19, 2011 Posted April 19, 2011 Hmm, I should boot it up again sometime, but last time, Bioshock was running fine as far I can remember (also on Windows 7 64 bit). No compatibility mode set. Is your windows up-to-date? I remember Bioshock woudn't run at first too, when I had just installed Windows 7.. After some time I tried again, and it worked perfectly, like I said. Perhaps it's an update your missing.
Emasher Posted April 19, 2011 Posted April 19, 2011 I got a G9x for 30% off the other day. I've got to say, I'm never going back to cheap mice.
drahkon Posted April 20, 2011 Posted April 20, 2011 I bought BIT.TRIP BEAT and started playing thinking: "Hey, this can't be too difficult." After 5 minutes:
Emasher Posted May 3, 2011 Posted May 3, 2011 EA sale this week. Personally, I'm hoping we see Bad Company 2 Vietnam for -50% one day. Today's sales are the Need for Speed games.
The Bard Posted May 7, 2011 Posted May 7, 2011 Since I got my PC fixed and returned to me four days ago, I've racked up a horrendous 48.1 hours on Steam. I feel absolutely filthy. Can barely remember how to speak, and on top of that, I'm really antsy and on edge because I decided to download STALKER again and give it a spin. Without a doubt the most terrifying game I have ever played.
Dyson Posted May 7, 2011 Posted May 7, 2011 Good timing! The EA sale this week has been incredible. Make sure you check it out tomorrow! It's Dead Space today. Reckon it might be Battlefield tomorrow, in which case: Get Bad Company 2!
Nolan Posted May 7, 2011 Posted May 7, 2011 Since I got my PC fixed and returned to me four days ago, I've racked up a horrendous 48.1 hours on Steam. I feel absolutely filthy. Can barely remember how to speak, and on top of that, I'm really antsy and on edge because I decided to download STALKER again and give it a spin. Without a doubt the most terrifying game I have ever played. Really STALKER? Give Penumbra and Amnesia a spin then. You may shit yourself. Though I do love me some STALKER, which one have you been playing?
The Bard Posted May 7, 2011 Posted May 7, 2011 Really STALKER? Give Penumbra and Amnesia a spin then. You may shit yourself. Though I do love me some STALKER, which one have you been playing? Nah, Neither Penumbra (any of em) nor Amnesia have anything on just the atmospherics of STALKER, I'm in such a nervous state at the moment. If you've played it, rememeber the part where you have to go into the underground lab, after slaughtering an entire camp of bandits for the key, and in the lab there's all this insane supernatural shit going down, backed by absolute silence apart from this really insidious low humming sound. Combine that with the fact that you're always on the fringe of panic since it takes so little to kill you, and lethality is around every corner. It really freaks me out man, never been so scared. Good timing! The EA sale this week has been incredible. Make sure you check it out tomorrow! It's Dead Space today. Reckon it might be Battlefield tomorrow, in which case: Get Bad Company 2! I've already got everything that's been on the EA sale so far. I've been playing a bit of Bad Company 2 as well, its really really good, really need to get someone to show me the ropes on multiplayer, being that this is my first Battlefield game (I had BF2, but never really got into it).
Nolan Posted May 8, 2011 Posted May 8, 2011 Nah, Neither Penumbra (any of em) nor Amnesia have anything on just the atmospherics of STALKER, I'm in such a nervous state at the moment. If you've played it, rememeber the part where you have to go into the underground lab, after slaughtering an entire camp of bandits for the key, and in the lab there's all this insane supernatural shit going down, backed by absolute silence apart from this really insidious low humming sound. Combine that with the fact that you're always on the fringe of panic since it takes so little to kill you, and lethality is around every corner. It really freaks me out man, never been so scared. Oooh yeah, that's the lab with the Poltergeist on fire isn't it?
The Bard Posted May 8, 2011 Posted May 8, 2011 Yeah man, and it took me about half an hour to figure out how to kill that thing. In any other game, there would be some sort of feedback to indicate that your bullets were doing damage, but STALKER has that special eastern european charm, and it doesn't give a fuck
Daft Posted May 12, 2011 Posted May 12, 2011 Question. I bought Tropico 3 off Steam and now I have the 'Steam Special Edition' and 'Absolute Power'. What's the difference and which one do I want to start with? Or are they the same thing? Probably a dumb load of questions.
McPhee Posted May 12, 2011 Author Posted May 12, 2011 The Steam Special Edition is the standard game, Absolute Power is the expansion pack. I'd guess Absolute Power is the one to start. Punkbuster is so incredibly lame. Wanted to play some BC2 online, but it won't let me in any servers. I probably could fix it but I genuinely cannot be arsed any more, it breaks itself quite regularly. Chances of DICE doing the right thing and dropping it in favour of VAC for BF3? Yeah, I know, keep dreaming.
Dyson Posted May 16, 2011 Posted May 16, 2011 You could uninstall and reinstall Punkbuster.. I know it's a pain in the arse but once you've done it it shouldn't happen again!
Emasher Posted May 16, 2011 Posted May 16, 2011 Try turning off the steam overlay (assuming you're using steam).
McPhee Posted May 16, 2011 Author Posted May 16, 2011 Already tried reinstalling Punkbuster. No dice. It ain't the Steam version either. I usually wind up reinstalling the game and downloading the mahoosive patches all over again through the painfully slow upsets system. This time I just gave up and hopped on the 360 version instead. Anyone getting The Witcher 2? One of my mates got it already. I have game envy
Wesley Posted May 19, 2011 Posted May 19, 2011 I picked up Section 8: Prejudice today, it'll be the new studio lunch game. It's fecking awesome!
Dyson Posted May 20, 2011 Posted May 20, 2011 Here's a question for y'all, just wondering if anyone has me topped. How many games have you got on your Steam account? I'm up to 143.. god damn Steam sales
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