Steam v1.0 (non-beta)

Dom · Sep 12, 2003, 01:31 PM

As expected, Valve has now released the first non beta version of Steam, its broadband platform for the delivery and management of digital content (Counter Strike v1.6 amongst other).

Download:
Steam Client v1.0 (Win32/Non-Beta) (600 KB)

WHAT IS STEAM?

Steam is Valve's new way of getting games into your hands ASAP. Games like Half-Life, Counter-Strike, and Counter-Strike Condition Zero are all being made available through Steam.

Steam games are automatically kept up-to-date with the latest content and revisions. Steam also includes an instant-message client which even works while you're in-game.

At its core, Steam is a distributed file system and shared set of technology components that can be implemented into any software application.

With Steam, developers are given integrated tools for direct-content publishing, flexible billing, ensured-version control, anti-cheating, anti-piracy, and more. Check out the full feature list, and install Steam today!

FEATURES
WHAT CAN STEAM DO?

Once you've installed Steam, all of the following features are available on your desktop and while you're playing Steam games.

EASY AND FAST ACCESS TO GAMES
After installing Steam, you'll have instant access to Valve's full library of games. And when you choose one to play, you don't have to wait for the whole thing to download -- you can start playing in a matter of minutes.

AUTOMATIC UPDATES
Say goodbye to game patches forever--they're a thing of the past. Steam will keep all of its games up-to-date for as long as you want to keep playing them. No more hunting for download sites just to get up and running!

INSTANT MESSAGING, EVEN IN GAME
Keep in touch with your buddies through "Friends," Steam's instant-messenger. It even works while you or your friends are playing games -- you don't have to stop playing to communicate.

SERVER BROWSER - FIND YOUR FRIENDS' GAMES
Now it's incredibly easy to find a quality game server -- one that's fast, that's running your favorite game, and even one that has your friends already playing on it.

PARLOR GAMES
Maybe you're dodging your homework. Maybe you're just bored while waiting for another turn in Counter-Strike. Either way -- why not enjoy a nice game of Chess? Or Checkers? Or Go? Or Hearts... Or....

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Source: GamersHell

DriveEuro · Sep 12, 2003, 05:10 PM

Yeah, you guys try to download the updates..... HAHAHAH, took me 4 tires to get steam to download the updates..... HAHAHA, yeah and if CS 1.6 would even actually DL... I've restarted steam so many times and I cannot get CS 1.6 to download for the life of me... Steam keeps on losing the conenct... And it's only morning now.... Can you imagine how slow this will be tonight??? LOL

Logla · Sep 12, 2003, 05:20 PM

Yep, this one here just stopped at 74% - again. I don't think there will be much chance of me wanting to purchase HL2 through steam now.

Nexus · Sep 12, 2003, 05:42 PM

can anyone get to www.steampowered.com it seems like its down

Nexus · Sep 12, 2003, 05:50 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by DriveEuro
Yeah, you guys try to download the updates..... HAHAHAH, took me 4 tires to get steam to download the updates..... HAHAHA, yeah and if CS 1.6 would even actually DL... I've restarted steam so many times and I cannot get CS 1.6 to download for the life of me... Steam keeps on losing the conenct... And it's only morning now.... Can you imagine how slow this will be tonight??? LOL

dude it worked for me 1st time stated downloadin and it got to 100%... finished @12:00 cst

Zardon · Sep 12, 2003, 05:54 PM

my friend installed this and it worked first time........

Logla · Sep 12, 2003, 06:06 PM

Got it to work - whoohoo!!

D/l'd from fileplanet where it states you get to play half life and counter strike for free (FREE in uppercase to get your attention). and guess what? you need a CD key to play anything. This is truly crap.

DriveEuro · Sep 12, 2003, 06:10 PM

I read why steampowered.com is down.. Somehow the installer got leaked 2 hours earlier than desired. People flooded to www.steampowered.com and used ALL OF THEIR BANDWIDTH... THat's freaking amazing.

Saint_K · Sep 12, 2003, 06:31 PM

Source on that ?

DriveEuro · Sep 12, 2003, 06:39 PM

PSH, um, where the hell did i find it.... i think gamerwarriors.com

DriveEuro · Sep 12, 2003, 06:42 PM

http://cstrike.gamewarriors.com/cgi/...=ST;f=11;t=376

CS 1.6 update
As most of you know, Steam 2.0/CS 1.6 Beta was released on Thursday, although not quite. Valve severely underestimated the amount of demand for a new version of Counter-Strike 1.6. To make matters worse, valve had given a sneak preview of Steam 2.0/CS 1.6 Beta to cs fan sites throughout the internet on Tuesday, unfortunately the steam client was leaked an hour or so before valve had officially released it. The Steam client spread like wild fires during that one hour period. by the time valve had officially released Steam all of valve's bandwidth (500mbits) was being consumed. Valve quickly suspended further download of the Steam client until they could dig up some more content servers.

MSX · Sep 12, 2003, 08:10 PM

Is once again not suprized. Oh you though I was a crazy preacher on the street did you? Well, not anyone here specifically, just that it happened... and its going to happen again with HL2... Getting it from the store will probibly be faster for quite a few of you.

DriveEuro · Sep 13, 2003, 12:08 AM

Does anyone know if installing 1.5 BEFORE 1.6 helps much? I used to run the beta, but deleted it. So now I'm downloading everything from scratch. But I've been at it for 6 hours. Steam is saying it's just downloading at about 30kb/s .... but du meter just shows about 3kb/s..... This is never gonna finish.. anyone having problems downloading?

Sep 12, 2003, 01:31 PM	#1
Dom DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 12,940 Rep Power: 0	Steam v1.0 (non-beta) As expected, Valve has now released the first non beta version of Steam, its broadband platform for the delivery and management of digital content (Counter Strike v1.6 amongst other). Download: Steam Client v1.0 (Win32/Non-Beta) (600 KB) WHAT IS STEAM? Steam is Valve's new way of getting games into your hands ASAP. Games like Half-Life, Counter-Strike, and Counter-Strike Condition Zero are all being made available through Steam. Steam games are automatically kept up-to-date with the latest content and revisions. Steam also includes an instant-message client which even works while you're in-game. At its core, Steam is a distributed file system and shared set of technology components that can be implemented into any software application. With Steam, developers are given integrated tools for direct-content publishing, flexible billing, ensured-version control, anti-cheating, anti-piracy, and more. Check out the full feature list, and install Steam today! FEATURES WHAT CAN STEAM DO? Once you've installed Steam, all of the following features are available on your desktop and while you're playing Steam games. EASY AND FAST ACCESS TO GAMES After installing Steam, you'll have instant access to Valve's full library of games. And when you choose one to play, you don't have to wait for the whole thing to download -- you can start playing in a matter of minutes. AUTOMATIC UPDATES Say goodbye to game patches forever--they're a thing of the past. Steam will keep all of its games up-to-date for as long as you want to keep playing them. No more hunting for download sites just to get up and running! INSTANT MESSAGING, EVEN IN GAME Keep in touch with your buddies through "Friends," Steam's instant-messenger. It even works while you or your friends are playing games -- you don't have to stop playing to communicate. SERVER BROWSER - FIND YOUR FRIENDS' GAMES Now it's incredibly easy to find a quality game server -- one that's fast, that's running your favorite game, and even one that has your friends already playing on it. PARLOR GAMES Maybe you're dodging your homework. Maybe you're just bored while waiting for another turn in Counter-Strike. Either way -- why not enjoy a nice game of Chess? Or Checkers? Or Go? Or Hearts... Or.... _______________________ Source: GamersHell

Sep 12, 2003, 05:10 PM	#2
DriveEuro HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Gurnee Illinois Posts: 4,677 Rep Power: 0	Yeah, you guys try to download the updates..... HAHAHAH, took me 4 tires to get steam to download the updates..... HAHAHA, yeah and if CS 1.6 would even actually DL... I've restarted steam so many times and I cannot get CS 1.6 to download for the life of me... Steam keeps on losing the conenct... And it's only morning now.... Can you imagine how slow this will be tonight??? LOL __________________ [color=orange]ASUS P4P800 Deluxe [color=black]-[/color] 2.4C --> 3300mhz [color=black]-[/color] Mushkin PC3200 at 220 5-2-2-2 (cpu limited) [color=black]-[/color] BBAti 9800Pro at 430/375 [/color] [color=black]3[/color][color=gray]D[/color]M[color=black]a[/color][color=gray]r[/color]k[color=yellow]01[/color] [color=black]3[/color][color=gray]D[/color]M[color=black]a[/color][color=gray]r[/color]k[color=yellow]03[/color] 16001200 12801024

Sep 12, 2003, 06:10 PM	#8
DriveEuro HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Gurnee Illinois Posts: 4,677 Rep Power: 0	I read why steampowered.com is down.. Somehow the installer got leaked 2 hours earlier than desired. People flooded to www.steampowered.com and used ALL OF THEIR BANDWIDTH... THat's freaking amazing. __________________ [color=orange]ASUS P4P800 Deluxe [color=black]-[/color] 2.4C --> 3300mhz [color=black]-[/color] Mushkin PC3200 at 220 5-2-2-2 (cpu limited) [color=black]-[/color] BBAti 9800Pro at 430/375 [/color] [color=black]3[/color][color=gray]D[/color]M[color=black]a[/color][color=gray]r[/color]k[color=yellow]01[/color] [color=black]3[/color][color=gray]D[/color]M[color=black]a[/color][color=gray]r[/color]k[color=yellow]03[/color] 16001200 12801024

Sep 12, 2003, 06:39 PM	#10
DriveEuro HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Gurnee Illinois Posts: 4,677 Rep Power: 0	PSH, um, where the hell did i find it.... i think gamerwarriors.com __________________ [color=orange]ASUS P4P800 Deluxe [color=black]-[/color] 2.4C --> 3300mhz [color=black]-[/color] Mushkin PC3200 at 220 5-2-2-2 (cpu limited) [color=black]-[/color] BBAti 9800Pro at 430/375 [/color] [color=black]3[/color][color=gray]D[/color]M[color=black]a[/color][color=gray]r[/color]k[color=yellow]01[/color] [color=black]3[/color][color=gray]D[/color]M[color=black]a[/color][color=gray]r[/color]k[color=yellow]03[/color] 16001200 12801024

Sep 12, 2003, 06:42 PM	#11
DriveEuro HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Gurnee Illinois Posts: 4,677 Rep Power: 0	http://cstrike.gamewarriors.com/cgi/...=ST;f=11;t=376 CS 1.6 update As most of you know, Steam 2.0/CS 1.6 Beta was released on Thursday, although not quite. Valve severely underestimated the amount of demand for a new version of Counter-Strike 1.6. To make matters worse, valve had given a sneak preview of Steam 2.0/CS 1.6 Beta to cs fan sites throughout the internet on Tuesday, unfortunately the steam client was leaked an hour or so before valve had officially released it. The Steam client spread like wild fires during that one hour period. by the time valve had officially released Steam all of valve's bandwidth (500mbits) was being consumed. Valve quickly suspended further download of the Steam client until they could dig up some more content servers. __________________ [color=orange]ASUS P4P800 Deluxe [color=black]-[/color] 2.4C --> 3300mhz [color=black]-[/color] Mushkin PC3200 at 220 5-2-2-2 (cpu limited) [color=black]-[/color] BBAti 9800Pro at 430/375 [/color] [color=black]3[/color][color=gray]D[/color]M[color=black]a[/color][color=gray]r[/color]k[color=yellow]01[/color] [color=black]3[/color][color=gray]D[/color]M[color=black]a[/color][color=gray]r[/color]k[color=yellow]03[/color] 16001200 12801024

Sep 12, 2003, 05:20 PM	#3
Logla HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 3,311 Rep Power: 0	Yep, this one here just stopped at 74% - again. I don't think there will be much chance of me wanting to purchase HL2 through steam now.

Sep 12, 2003, 05:42 PM	#4
Nexus -=Space Cowboy=- Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: NCV-474439-G Posts: 108 Rep Power: 0	can anyone get to www.steampowered.com it seems like its down

Sep 12, 2003, 05:54 PM	#6
Zardon DriverHeaven Founder Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 32,480 Rep Power: 179	my friend installed this and it worked first time........

Sep 12, 2003, 06:06 PM	#7
Logla HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 3,311 Rep Power: 0	Got it to work - whoohoo!! D/l'd from fileplanet where it states you get to play half life and counter strike for free (FREE in uppercase to get your attention). and guess what? you need a CD key to play anything. This is truly crap.

Sep 12, 2003, 06:31 PM	#9
Saint_K InSaNe Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Den haag, netherlands Posts: 836 Rep Power: 0	Source on that ?

Sep 12, 2003, 08:10 PM	#12
MSX Burning the frozen... Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 1,201 Rep Power: 0	Is once again not suprized. Oh you though I was a crazy preacher on the street did you? Well, not anyone here specifically, just that it happened... and its going to happen again with HL2... Getting it from the store will probibly be faster for quite a few of you.

Sep 13, 2003, 12:08 AM	#13
DriveEuro HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Gurnee Illinois Posts: 4,677 Rep Power: 0	Does anyone know if installing 1.5 BEFORE 1.6 helps much? I used to run the beta, but deleted it. So now I'm downloading everything from scratch. But I've been at it for 6 hours. Steam is saying it's just downloading at about 30kb/s .... but du meter just shows about 3kb/s..... This is never gonna finish.. anyone having problems downloading? __________________ [color=orange]ASUS P4P800 Deluxe [color=black]-[/color] 2.4C --> 3300mhz [color=black]-[/color] Mushkin PC3200 at 220 5-2-2-2 (cpu limited) [color=black]-[/color] BBAti 9800Pro at 430/375 [/color] [color=black]3[/color][color=gray]D[/color]M[color=black]a[/color][color=gray]r[/color]k[color=yellow]01[/color] [color=black]3[/color][color=gray]D[/color]M[color=black]a[/color][color=gray]r[/color]k[color=yellow]03[/color] 16001200 12801024