SRL Archive - Gaming

Free steam games?!


Freddy1990

2007-11-24 14:44:22

If you have an ATI Radeon card installed, you can get Half-Life 2 Deathmatch and Lost Coast for free here: http://www.steampowered.com/ati_offer1a/

Sp0rky

2007-11-24 14:53:34

Wow, what the hell are valve doing?!

Freddy1990

2007-11-24 15:00:04

Well, it's a campaign by ATI, so I assume that ATI is paying valve for it, i already had them already though, and atm I don't have a pc with an ati card anyway :p

Wizzup?

2007-11-24 15:28:27

Don't you still need the regular Half Life 2 Game before you can use the extensions?

legendaryhero90

2007-11-24 15:53:26

oh gosh how i want to play those games right now.

but my video card sucks so im stuck with runescape

Freddy1990

2007-11-24 17:07:35

From: Wizzup?
Don't you still need the regular Half Life 2 Game before you can use the extensions?


No, atleast not for these…

Mute

2007-11-24 17:28:18

This is something that ATI would do to try to get more people to buy their worthless garbage, I'd rather shell out all the money in the world then put one of those cards into my PC to get a free steam game.

nVidia FTW.

IPwnz

2007-11-24 17:49:37

From: Mute
This is something that ATI would do to try to get more people to buy their worthless garbage, I'd rather shell out all the money in the world then put one of those cards into my PC to get a free steam game.

nVidia FTW.


Really? I've been using ATI for years ever since my first nVidia card for the desktop had really crappy drivers. Thanks for the link Freddy.

Dan Cardin

2007-11-24 19:06:59

yea i found this out when i updated my drivers. it put a offer on my desktop and it said if i got steam i would get a free halflife2: deathmatch and lost coast :)

this has been about for a while though

Mute

2007-11-24 19:34:05

From: IPwnz
Really? I've been using ATI for years ever since my first nVidia card for the desktop had really crappy drivers. Thanks for the link Freddy.


Oh? I didn't like the fact that the ATI card I used to have (Radeon 9550)
would constantly overheat and would have an extremely high temperature compared to my overclocked GeForce 7600 GS, and by default has higher GPU specs then the Radeon 9550. ;)

op_ivy_freak

2007-11-24 20:37:26

Thx. About time Steam gave away some stuff.

Rikje

2007-11-25 03:10:50

THX for posting freddy :)

ecclesiastes

2007-11-25 05:08:54

kewl games freddy but Call of Duty 4 still ownz all!

I will try one of these when i have finished it… ;)

JuKKa

2007-11-25 05:29:10

duhh, and i bought these games 4 years ago (or so), Well i got CSS atleast.

Freddy1990

2007-11-25 14:17:11

From: Mute
Oh? I didn't like the fact that the ATI card I used to have (Radeon 9550)
would constantly overheat and would have an extremely high temperature compared to my overclocked GeForce 7600 GS, and by default has higher GPU specs then the Radeon 9550. ;)


I have a GeForce EN7600GS Silent 512mb and I think it sucks, them crappy nvidia drivers crash my pc 3 times a day, I've never had any problems back when I had ATI cards, so imo ATI doesn't suck at all, nvidia is highly overrated

Mute

2007-11-26 15:38:47

From: Freddy1990
I have a GeForce EN7600GS Silent 512mb and I think it sucks, them crappy nvidia drivers crash my pc 3 times a day, I've never had any problems back when I had ATI cards, so imo ATI doesn't suck at all, nvidia is highly overrated


o__O The only problem I have ever had with nVidia drivers was that once in a while my FPS in certain steam games drops from 300-400 to 50-60, but thats only once in a while, but not once has the drivers ever caused my PC to crash, only a blue screen once when I was clocking the GPU too high.

Markus

2007-11-26 15:51:02

Ah ty Freddy.
New PC gonna have an ATI card, same price, better peformance :f:

Here

2007-11-27 00:02:56

Well, then again, there's always the other way around, isn't there. Feel free to remove link if you feel it's not necessary.

Here you go.

cbris

2007-12-27 22:07:18

I must assume you mean free and leagal. It's an important differentiation.

For free and questionally leagal check this out.

It works, and yes… it is truly awesome.