Topic: The Unofficial Steam Sales Thread

Another sale ended, another Xkhaoz empty handed. Maybe next time.

Hooked up my external HD. Downloading Puzzle Quest, Half Life 2 is up next.

I keep thinking about getting one, but there isn't much point when I plan to build a new desktop during the summer.

Couple more hours till I'm smashing stuff with a crowbar. Thanks Terra

Hmmmm, I guess I'm having trouble running Half Life 2. I've downloaded it to my external hard drive, clicked play, then a message popped up saying that my video card is unsupported and that I may have trouble running it. I then continued anyway, and the Valve logo popped up, then the one for Source, and then I got a screen of a city with a box in the bottom right hand corner saying loading. The city was blurry. I just left it for a few second, and then an error message popped up saying that the memory couldn't be read or something. What should I do?

EDIT: This was the message I got: The instruction at 0x1438247f referenced memory at 0x121bb018,the memory couldn't be read

Weird. I have one of the expansion packs for Lara Croft: GOL even though I never bought it. Is this some promotion or is it just a weird service mess-up?

@Xkhaoz: Where do you have Steam installed? If it is not installed on your external HD, then you will be required to follow this guide.

@V8: Something about it will probably show up on either general discussion or the Lara Croft forums. If it is a mistake, don't count on being able to keep it

@Ravage It was a mistake.

@V8 Are you talking about DLC #2, the challenge pack? Everyone on Steam gets that for free with the purchase of LC:GoL. Apparently the other packs went to the XBLA and PSN versions of the game. More DLC packs (including the XBLA and PSN ones) will be released later.

@HolyMackerel Yes, and on a restart of Steam, it says that I have the 2nd DLC pack. Thanks for notifying me of that. I probably wouldn't have tried restarting Steam if I didn't see your post.

It's definetelly installed on the external. I DLed Puzzle Quest, and it's working fine, I don't think it's the drive.

Well, I think I'll just download Lost Coast and see if that works. But what's weird, is that Lost Coast started at 50% already downloaded. Why is this?

It's because part of the download for a lot of Valve games includes the Source Engine. If you have any other Source games (Half Life 2, Portal, TF2, etc.) then you already have the engine downloaded.

@HolyMackerel That's what I thought. That's pretty cool.

Lost Coast doesn't want to download for some reason
EDIT: Never mind, it's working now
EDIT again: Lost Coast works, or at least the title screen, haven't played it yet. Dunno why HL2 isn't working, though.

I never did play Lost Coast... Is it worth playing through?

It's just a tech demo - and an old one now. Basically it just showed off the Source Engine back when it was new. You're not missing anything.

@Ravage It's still nice to get for free though: http://www.steampowered.com/ati_offer1a/

You get it for free with the Orange Box.

So I just bought Battlefield: Bad Company 2 and so far it has been a great game. I have only played the multiplayer and obviously I suck in it . I'll try the single player later.