Bit-Tech's article on steam

[Blade_Runner]

Full Steam ahead

You might not think about Valve's Steam distribution method much. If the first time you came across Steam was when you installed Half-Life 2, from the DVD, then you would have good reason not to. Mental scars like those take a long time to heal.

As you sat there all day, trying hopelessly to connect to Steam for verification, or sobbing hopelessly because you didn’t read the "Requires an internet connection" disclaimer, you should have taken heart at the suffering that had already gone before you.

If that’s still how you think, then I’ll wager it’s a long time since you last logged on. It’s fair to say Steam still has some interesting peculiarities, for example pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del and setting Steam.exe to low priority can increase your FPS by up to 50%. However, you’d be forgetting the reason Steam was worth downloading in the first place – the prospect of interesting and unusual games at reasonable prices.

Steam’s reason for existence, or so a cynic might proclaim, was to sell HL2 without having to give lots of their hard-earned cash to a third party – Vivendi Entertainment. The rest is history, but the results are still on Steam.

Read On........

 

[ComradE_BeaN]

trl-Alt-Del and setting Steam.exe to low priority can increase your FPS by up to 50%

.....will try it....never imagined giving lowr priority would geive better...FPS...:lol: