Steam (Highly Recommended)

[Mr. Anderson]

Hate them nasty Counter-Strike graphics, but love Couter-Strike? Then get steam! It's like Counter-Strike on crack! I don't really feel like explaining it, so www.steampowered.com . Thank me later.

[godhatesjustyou]

does steam really make the graphics better? i thought it was just used to play 1.6

[magilacudy]

I thought it was just a program you install that you're forced to download and install everything from and that takes obscene amount of memory from sitting in the background of your system.

[Renzokuken]

u can pick which games u want to download. I hate using steam tho, its sort of making me quit CS

[Storamin]

Yah, steam does suck. How does it make the gfx better, I haven't noticed any difference for better or worse.

[Mr. Anderson]

Maybe my computer is crap, but it makes a world of difference to me. And it's so streamlined and pretty to look at. Finding a good server is NEVER hard with Steam. As for taking up a bunch of memory because it's double your files, it doesn't do that. It clears out the old ones, but saves them as new ones. Bitches.

[Scrubking]

Seeing how graphic quality is mainly based upon your gpu, I find it difficult to believe that playing the same game online will magically give you better graphics.

[Mr. Anderson]

Try it and see.

[magilacudy]

Maybe it looks like you have better graphics because you're not lagging as much. Steam just found you servers with better ping.

[Mr. Anderson]

All the jaggies are gone, and the interface is extremely smooth and streamlined. Trust me, it's awesome.

[spidey]

Down with steam. Bring back CS 1.0 :twisted: :D

[Mr. Anderson]

YOU ALL MUST CONVERT TO STEAM!

[WildWop]

I don't remember the pre-steam days very well... did Half-Life always support widescreen? I noticed this when I installed steam on my laptop. For me, that is a great feature that falls in the realm of graphical improvement

[Mr Unoriginal]

I just tried to install steam last night and no luck. It had a problem with my CD Key, which I am very sure is not warez or key-gened or anything. I have used it many times in the past to play online, so now I am quite upset. I emailed them but didn't get an answer yet. Anyone have any idea what might be the problem?

[Theenternal]

maybe a generated key is used that matches yours

[Mr Unoriginal]

That was my guess. So I just acted real stupid when I emailed them and hopefully no more problems. We'll see.

[LiquidKil]

For those of you on steam add me to your friends list: LiquidKill5788