Favorite PC Game

[Uncensored2008]

I begin the year with the old Half Life 2 triology. The game features a good story and makes intense use of the built-in physics engine. Very nice.

They frustrate me, knowing the Half Life Forever will probably never materialize.

 

[Uncensored2008]

I love Half-Life. The only problem right now is that even though, I can install it on my Windows 8 PC, the game won't recognize that the disk is in the DVD reader. I have heard that I would have to buy the Black Mesa game from Steam to be able to play it. Well, I don't want to re-buy a game that I already own. There must be some kind of workaround to make the program recognize that the disk is indeed in the PC.

Just go into Steam, choose "import a non-steam game" and put in your CD key. It's easy and will get rid of all the DRM crap.

 

[Uncensored2008]

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Weren't you the one, who told me that I didn't have to re-install Windows 8? If so, you were right. I backed up everything in anticipation of doing it, but now, I will just see how everything works.

Recently, I was having trouble with my Cyberlink PowerDVD Ultra 13, showing an error message every time I tried to play a movie. I traced it back to the NVIDIA drivers. Even though, I had installed the latest driver, all the old drivers still remained, even though they weren't visible. When I removed all the old drivers. Cyberlink played flawlessly, but that was only after I restarted the system. If I came in on a cold boot, I still got the same errors, both for Cyberlink and Geforce Experience. Now, since I have installed the new motherboard and I5 processor, everything works perfectly, even with a cold boot. I would say that maybe my motherboard or Q9400 processor were causing all the issues. I figure the board or CPU was getting ready for catastrophic failure.

No, that was me.

But I did say to make sure you had the network drivers on disk before the install.

Because the NIC is onboard the MOBO, you always need drivers when you do a swap.

 

[Bleipriester]

I begin the year with the old Half Life 2 triology. The game features a good story and makes intense use of the built-in physics engine. Very nice.

They frustrate me, knowing the Half Life Forever will probably never materialize.

There are HL3 rumors.

 

[Bleipriester]

I love Half-Life. The only problem right now is that even though, I can install it on my Windows 8 PC, the game won't recognize that the disk is in the DVD reader. I have heard that I would have to buy the Black Mesa game from Steam to be able to play it. Well, I don't want to re-buy a game that I already own. There must be some kind of workaround to make the program recognize that the disk is indeed in the PC.

Just go into Steam, choose "import a non-steam game" and put in your CD key. It's easy and will get rid of all the DRM crap.

I wonder whats worse, insert a disc or open a restrictive software debasement tool.

 

[Uncensored2008]

There are HL3 rumors.

There have been for 13 years.

This has all happened before....

Is Half-Life 3 the new Duke Nukem Forever - Philadelphia Console Game Examiner.com

 

[Uncensored2008]

I wonder whats worse, insert a disc or open a restrictive software debasement tool.

Let's see..

With Steam, all my games on every computer I own. Just click and they run, fully patched with instant access to community mods and enhancements.

With the disk version, I get the pleasure of searching for keys and fighting obscure DRM schemes...

It's a toughy all right...

 

[Bleipriester]

I wonder whats worse, insert a disc or open a restrictive software debasement tool.

Let's see..

With Steam, all my games on every computer I own. Just click and they run, fully patched with instant access to community mods and enhancements.

With the disk version, I get the pleasure of searching for keys and fighting obscure DRM schemes...

It's a toughy all right...

You can sell non-Steam games. If Steam or not, I download a crack for each game and my discs are save in their boxes and Steam isnt installed. The only launcher I have to accept is Origin. For BF3 Multiplayer. I can launch the Singleplayer without Origin, of course.

 

[XPostFacto]

Well, I could use that crack, but I'm leery of anybody putting out free cracks to download because I don't know that these sites would install a virus on my PC.

 

[XPostFacto]

I re-installed Dragon Age Inquisition, and right when Origin tried to install the patch for the game, I pulled my Lan cable and was able to play the game offline. The trick is to stop Origin from loading the most recent patch that makes you re-authenticate your game through EULA rules. If I can stop that patch from installing for the next 6 months, I should be able to complete DAI. I was wondering where all my saved games were and could never find them on the hard drive. Looks like they were saved in the Cloud. Even with the saved games, they wouldn't play because I was starting with the unpatched version of DAI so I started over, and it was worth changing my character from archer to warrior. Being an archer, at least in DAI is the weakest character because of your inability to switch from the bow to your short swords during close quarter combat. Now, that is pure bull shit, but that's the way the game was set up. To those who decide on buying the game, choose warrior as your combat class because it is worth it having 2 warriors and 2 ranged playable characters. As in Mass Effect, you have followers, in DAI, 3 followers to start with. You pick up more as you progress, but I haven't gotten that far. Having to start over slows down your game progress.

 

[XPostFacto]

I wonder whats worse, insert a disc or open a restrictive software debasement tool.

Let's see..

With Steam, all my games on every computer I own. Just click and they run, fully patched with instant access to community mods and enhancements.

With the disk version, I get the pleasure of searching for keys and fighting obscure DRM schemes...

It's a toughy all right...

You can sell non-Steam games. If Steam or not, I download a crack for each game and my discs are save in their boxes and Steam isnt installed. The only launcher I have to accept is Origin. For BF3 Multiplayer. I can launch the Singleplayer without Origin, of course.

Want to supply the cracks for those sites? I hate all gaming platforms, but Steam seems to be the most reputable so far.

 

[XPostFacto]

[

Weren't you the one, who told me that I didn't have to re-install Windows 8? If so, you were right. I backed up everything in anticipation of doing it, but now, I will just see how everything works.

Recently, I was having trouble with my Cyberlink PowerDVD Ultra 13, showing an error message every time I tried to play a movie. I traced it back to the NVIDIA drivers. Even though, I had installed the latest driver, all the old drivers still remained, even though they weren't visible. When I removed all the old drivers. Cyberlink played flawlessly, but that was only after I restarted the system. If I came in on a cold boot, I still got the same errors, both for Cyberlink and Geforce Experience. Now, since I have installed the new motherboard and I5 processor, everything works perfectly, even with a cold boot. I would say that maybe my motherboard or Q9400 processor were causing all the issues. I figure the board or CPU was getting ready for catastrophic failure.

No, that was me.

But I did say to make sure you had the network drivers on disk before the install.

Because the NIC is onboard the MOBO, you always need drivers when you do a swap.

At first, I didn't load any drivers and enabled the onboard Network through the board's BIOS, but I couldn't get the network to work. I have never had to load drivers for the network. This time,I ran the disk that came with the new motherboard, which had those network drivers. Then the network interface connected me to the network.

I'm going to see what happens. I have all my files backed up anyway, just in case. It is just such a long drawn out headache to reload all my programs. I wouldn't be re-installing all the games, though. That would clear out a lot of space on my 1 TB hard drive.

 

[XPostFacto]

I love Half-Life. The only problem right now is that even though, I can install it on my Windows 8 PC, the game won't recognize that the disk is in the DVD reader. I have heard that I would have to buy the Black Mesa game from Steam to be able to play it. Well, I don't want to re-buy a game that I already own. There must be some kind of workaround to make the program recognize that the disk is indeed in the PC.

Just go into Steam, choose "import a non-steam game" and put in your CD key. It's easy and will get rid of all the DRM crap.

Well, I will give that one a shot. It would be worth it to play Half Life again. I played it on the hardest level, and it took me forever to finish it, but you could save your progress, anywhere, not like all these new games, which save only after you have completed the mission.

 

[XPostFacto]

There are HL3 rumors.

There have been for 13 years.

This has all happened before....

Is Half-Life 3 the new Duke Nukem Forever - Philadelphia Console Game Examiner.com

I hated Duke Nukem Forever, what a stupid game. The bad part is that I'm stuck with it and can't sell it.

 

[Bleipriester]

I wonder whats worse, insert a disc or open a restrictive software debasement tool.

Let's see..

With Steam, all my games on every computer I own. Just click and they run, fully patched with instant access to community mods and enhancements.

With the disk version, I get the pleasure of searching for keys and fighting obscure DRM schemes...

It's a toughy all right...

You can sell non-Steam games. If Steam or not, I download a crack for each game and my discs are save in their boxes and Steam isnt installed. The only launcher I have to accept is Origin. For BF3 Multiplayer. I can launch the Singleplayer without Origin, of course.

Want to supply the cracks for those sites? I hate all gaming platforms, but Steam seems to be the most reputable so far.

I can vaguely remember that someone talked of a page called gamecopyworld, where only cracks (and moronic trainers) but no games are offered for free. I also heard that one should check the downloaded files with virustotal and determine then if something dirty is included. You know, if some av-tools "detect" some malware and others not, its simply the behavior of the crack that is misinterpreted by av-software.

 

[Uncensored2008]

You can sell non-Steam games. If Steam or not, I download a crack for each game and my discs are save in their boxes and Steam isnt installed. The only launcher I have to accept is Origin. For BF3 Multiplayer. I can launch the Singleplayer without Origin, of course.

It's true that Steam blocks the sale of games, but on the other hand, games cost a fraction on Steam that they used to cost in stores.

Honestly, I've never sold a game in my life.

 

[Bleipriester]

You can sell non-Steam games. If Steam or not, I download a crack for each game and my discs are save in their boxes and Steam isnt installed. The only launcher I have to accept is Origin. For BF3 Multiplayer. I can launch the Singleplayer without Origin, of course.

It's true that Steam blocks the sale of games, but on the other hand, games cost a fraction on Steam that they used to cost in stores.

Honestly, I've never sold a game in my life.

They cost less? On sale, maybe. In my country, at least. Normally, the prices dont differ from retail prices and instead of discs, boxes, manuals and bonuses like playing cards or artbooks you get steam between you and your games.

 

[ogibillm]

Apparently for me it's Solitaire, Free Cell, Hearts and Syder Solitaire. They're great at putting me to sleep so I play them as often as possible.

No "Dead Island" or Diablo III?

No, I like some of the older ones. I have one made for Win 98/2000 which still works with win7. Half of the games I like are from the XP period, some of which still play on 7. Currently I'm enjoying the Stronghold series.

Software Library MS-DOS Games Free Software Download Streaming Internet Archive
2400 games, playable in browser.
granted, not all of them are classics, but some are.

 

[XPostFacto]

You can sell non-Steam games. If Steam or not, I download a crack for each game and my discs are save in their boxes and Steam isnt installed. The only launcher I have to accept is Origin. For BF3 Multiplayer. I can launch the Singleplayer without Origin, of course.

It's true that Steam blocks the sale of games, but on the other hand, games cost a fraction on Steam that they used to cost in stores.

Honestly, I've never sold a game in my life.

I have given away a lot of old games, and I would give others away, but Steam even blocks charity.

 

[Uncensored2008]

I have given away a lot of old games, and I would give others away, but Steam even blocks charity.

Mainly it blocks piracy.