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In a little pickle
Teh Geek Lord:
I just recently wen tout and bought a copy of the oh-so-glorious Left 4 Dead. Only to go and install it to find out... I need interenets D:
This would normally not pose a problem, but I guess I'm the odd man out. I live in the boondocks (country, 20 minutes from the nearest little town) and being my family has moved to cell phones, we never activated our land line to our new home, so even the ancient and shitty dialup is null. I can't quite talk the parents into adding the overpriced Sat internet, and paying for a ground line that would only serve a channel for telemarketers for a slow ass net is, to me, not desired.
I get my net fix using my laptop, but I have a few thousand bucks of computer hardware at home (sli GTX 280's Core i7, 6GB of lust worthy DDr3) so I'd prefer gaming on that. I'm sure my 8600M video card in the laptop will play it, but playing games at 800 X 600 resolutions with settings turned down is not ideal.
Would it be possible to trick my desktop into thinking i have net by downloading the needed files to the laptop and installing them on the desktop? Or and I fucked until I get on my own?
*worries*
Dimmukane:
All Valve games released on Steam (to my knowledge, this is how they behave at work, anyways) will not start in Offline mode. You may have to stick with the laptop.
I'm pretty sure you could get away with higher resolutions than 800x600. At the very least I would expect it to be able to handle mostly high/medium settings (not very high, mind you), maybe with HDR and motion blur turned off.
Melodic might know a little better than I.
Teh Geek Lord:
--- Quote from: Dimmukane on 04 Mar 2009, 21:39 ---All Valve games released on Steam (to my knowledge, this is how they behave at work, anyways) will not start in Offline mode. You may have to stick with the laptop.
I'm pretty sure you could get away with higher resolutions than 800x600. At the very least I would expect it to be able to handle mostly high/medium settings (not very high, mind you), maybe with HDR and motion blur turned off.
Melodic might know a little better than I.
--- End quote ---
Drat. I've played Bioschock on my laptop, and to get playable framerates, I have to dumb the settings waaaaayyyy down. I should have invested in a laptop with a beefier GPU.
I'm thinking it will play L4D at 1280 X 720 but its a widescreen laptop, which will make my zombies all short and fat :\ Chances are, I won't play any L4D for a while :(
Spluff:
L4D is less graphically intensive than Bioshock - but the real question is, why would you want to play L4D without the internet?
Teh Geek Lord:
--- Quote from: Spluff on 04 Mar 2009, 21:48 ---L4D is less graphically intensive than Bioshock - but the real question is, why would you want to play L4D without the internet?
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I don't have much choice in that matter... for the time being. The plan is to eventually enjoy L4D in all glory online in an apartment. however lack of monies prevents that. I was hoping to at least curb my need to massacre hoards of zombies with the campaign. Looks like I'll just have to use the laptop... while the hulk of gaming prowess sits idle. what a waste of fucking cash.
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