http://steamreview.org/posts/virtualdrivecanned/ Comment and discussion on Valve Software's digital communications platform. Fri, 29 Aug 2008 05:03:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://steamreview.org/posts/virtualdrivecanned/#comment-4639 Re: [hlcoders] Switch the SDK to NCF Mon, 07 Jul 2008 23:06:26 +0000 http://www.steamreview.org/?p=89#comment-4639 <!--%kramer-ref-pre%-->[...] either: it happened to a few games after the format was first introduced. It's all explained here: http://steamreview.org/posts/virtualdrivecanned/ Jonas 'Sortie' Termansen wrote: > Interesting idea. If I understand the NCF system correctly, [...]<!--%kramer-ref-post%--> [...] either: it happened to a few games after the format was first introduced. It’s all explained here: http://steamreview.org/posts/virtualdrivecanned/ Jonas ‘Sortie’ Termansen wrote: > Interesting idea. If I understand the NCF system correctly, [...]

]]> http://steamreview.org/posts/virtualdrivecanned/#comment-3944 Red Orchestra load times traced to Steam - The Steam Review Mon, 05 Nov 2007 21:33:25 +0000 http://www.steamreview.org/?p=89#comment-3944 [...] New filesystem harms performance :: April 18th, 2006 :: General :: 30 Responses Since this post, the Steam virtual drive has been dropped and loading times are no longer [...] [...] New filesystem harms performance :: April 18th, 2006 :: General :: 30 Responses Since this post, the Steam virtual drive has been dropped and loading times are no longer [...]

]]> http://steamreview.org/posts/virtualdrivecanned/#comment-3327 The Steam Platform - The Steam Review Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:58:14 +0000 http://www.steamreview.org/?p=89#comment-3327 [...] It gets worse - the third party games currently packing out the Steam platform don’t implement this streaming at all! The Steam client basically becomes a glorified download manager for loose files. Nobody uses the content streaming because it requires deeper Steam integration. If not even Valve are implementing the full features of their own platform, there isn’t much hope a third party will. Triton attempted to achieve content streaming essentially “for free” without requiring integration by using a virtual filesystem driver, however a similar attempt by Steam has been discarded as providing terrible performance. [...] [...] It gets worse - the third party games currently packing out the Steam platform don’t implement this streaming at all! The Steam client basically becomes a glorified download manager for loose files. Nobody uses the content streaming because it requires deeper Steam integration. If not even Valve are implementing the full features of their own platform, there isn’t much hope a third party will. Triton attempted to achieve content streaming essentially “for free” without requiring integration by using a virtual filesystem driver, however a similar attempt by Steam has been discarded as providing terrible performance. [...]

]]> http://steamreview.org/posts/virtualdrivecanned/#comment-3210 TM-FORUM :: View topic - TMU will be sold on the Steam Platform!!! Fri, 08 Jun 2007 06:25:37 +0000 http://www.steamreview.org/?p=89#comment-3210 [...] Steam also seems to bring an increased system requirement. This has been the case with every game transitioned from standard UI to the Steam platform. Not any more. [...] [...] Steam also seems to bring an increased system requirement. This has been the case with every game transitioned from standard UI to the Steam platform. Not any more. [...]

]]> http://steamreview.org/posts/virtualdrivecanned/#comment-2897 Background Streaming for Steam! - Steam Users Forums Thu, 05 Apr 2007 16:35:07 +0000 http://www.steamreview.org/?p=89#comment-2897 <!--%kramer-ref-pre%-->[...] NCF games can use it too. [...]<!--%kramer-ref-post%--> [...] NCF games can use it too. [...]

]]> http://steamreview.org/posts/virtualdrivecanned/#comment-1414 The Steam Review » Blog Archive » Red Orchestra load times traced to Steam Tue, 12 Sep 2006 10:15:12 +0000 http://www.steamreview.org/?p=89#comment-1414 [...] Red Orchestra load times traced to Steam New filesystem harms performance :: April 18th, 2006 :: General :: 29 Responses Since this post, the Steam virtual drive has been dropped and loading times are no longer abnormal. [...] [...] Red Orchestra load times traced to Steam New filesystem harms performance :: April 18th, 2006 :: General :: 29 Responses Since this post, the Steam virtual drive has been dropped and loading times are no longer abnormal. [...]

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