Dial Up Vs. Steam: The Orange Box Question

Well, I live in the country and the only net access is dial up at this time. I purchased the Orange Box yesterday. I am attempting to download the games at this time. I decided not to intall TF2 because of my dial up and I figured I will not be doing an online gamming. I am trying to download the half life series (3 games) and portal. I quickly realized that I need to intall these one at a time. When the screen intially promted me I chose all of the games that I wanted to install, I selected allo of the ones I wanted. My cpu is tyrying to download 3 of these at once (I guess one of the games is on the second disk and I have not gotten there yet).

Is there any way that I can stop steam from downloading all three at once and just go one at a time? It will take me a few weeks to get all three at my current pace. I guess steam might me cool for others, but for me it blows so far. Just put thre freaking games on a disk people, not everyone has access to connections other than dial up. Thanks for any advice.

Right click on the games you don't want to download > click pause or stop. It's not complicated. Did you even look or did you run straight to the forums to complain?

I would not have even installed steam if I was still on dialup. Just my 2 cents. Good luck playing tf2 online when every other server is running custom maps. Thats a nice 10mb download before you even start your lag filled game session. lol

Well, I live in the country and the only net access is dial up at this time. I purchased the Orange Box yesterday. I am attempting to download the games at this time. I decided not to intall TF2 because of my dial up and I figured I will not be doing an online gamming. I am trying to download the half life series (3 games) and portal. I quickly realized that I need to intall these one at a time. When the screen intially promted me I chose all of the games that I wanted to install, I selected allo of the ones I wanted. My cpu is tyrying to download 3 of these at once (I guess one of the games is on the second disk and I have not gotten there yet).

Is there any way that I can stop steam from downloading all three at once and just go one at a time? It will take me a few weeks to get all three at my current pace. I guess steam might me cool for others, but for me it blows so far. Just put thre freaking games on a disk people, not everyone has access to connections other than dial up. Thanks for any advice.

incompitentfps

Why do you say you are downloading the games? Did you buy the Orange Box off steam or Retail? If you bought it retail then you should just be able to install the games and then add small updates...

Dont be so sensative, I am just seeking some help. Gees, do you have stock in steam? If you think about my situation, I believe that you would agree with me that steam is not ideal for those folks that are still on dial up. I did try to stop the downloads first before comming to ask for help.

I guess you will bash me again becaise I bought the game off of e-bay. It came with 2 disk in the box. I will try to pause the games. Thanks for those who actually provided some help. What a great forum

Dont be so sensative, I am just seeking some help. Gees, do you have stock in steam? If you think about my situation, I believe that you would agree with me that steam is not ideal for those folks that are still on dial up. I did try to stop the downloads first before comming to ask for help.

I guess you will bash me again becaise I bought the game off of e-bay. It came with 2 disk in the box. I will try to pause the games. Thanks for those who actually provided some help. What a great forum

incompitentfps

Okay so you have a disk...have you installed the games first off the disks? Tell me once you've done that because I have a feeling that you downloading the whole game off steam rather then just the updates. Also, when installing off the disk make sure that you are prompted to use the second disk at some stage during the installation of EP2. There has been a problem with that.

When I instered the first disk, I loaded steam onto my system. I entered my activation code and was then given a list of games to choose from, I picked everything except TF2 beacsue I do not do online gamming due to dial up. It began installing all four of the games I selected. I have not been asked to insert the second disk yet. I'll let you know what happens, appears to working ok, just will take forever. incompitentfps

Whats the capacity of your hard drive? I don't know what ol' Staty was saying lol about.

When I instered the first disk, I loaded steam onto my system. I entered my activation code and was then given a list of games to choose from, I picked everything except TF2 beacsue I do not do online gamming due to dial up. It began installing all four of the games I selected. I have not been asked to insert the second disk yet. I'll let you know what happens, appears to working ok, just will take forever. incompitentfps

well.. you just installed steam and entered your serial for the orange box.. Steam is now downloading these games.. Stop it.. Insert your disk and install the games (Hl2, Ep1, Ep2, blah blah) from your orange box dvd..

you should have just bought the disc :?zero9167

[QUOTE="zero9167"]you should have just bought the disc :?Indestructible2

I have bought all my games on Disc and I have not damaged one of them. Its the way you treat them ...

[QUOTE="incompitentfps"]When I instered the first disk, I loaded steam onto my system. I entered my activation code and was then given a list of games to choose from, I picked everything except TF2 beacsue I do not do online gamming due to dial up. It began installing all four of the games I selected. I have not been asked to insert the second disk yet. I'll let you know what happens, appears to working ok, just will take forever. StaatsFlo

well.. you just installed steam and entered your serial for the orange box.. Steam is now downloading these games.. Stop it.. Insert your disk and install the games (Hl2, Ep1, Ep2, blah blah) from your orange box dvd..

Yes I pointed that out to him earlier.

[QUOTE="Indestructible2"][QUOTE="zero9167"]you should have just bought the disc :?biggest_loser

I have bought all my games on Disc and I have not damaged one of them. Its the way you treat them ...

[QUOTE="zero9167"]you should have just bought the disc :?Indestructible2

No actually downloads = fail when he has a 56k modem.

[QUOTE="Indestructible2"][QUOTE="zero9167"]you should have just bought the disc :?sSubZerOo

No actually downloads = fail when he has a 56k modem.

I'd rather wait a few weeks and get a game that'll actually LAST than get a game in-store and have it get damaged even when its in the case MUCH sooner.Indestructible2

It all depends on how well your treat your disks.

I've go Game CD's from 1998 that still work perfectly fine.

[QUOTE="sSubZerOo"]

[QUOTE="Indestructible2"][QUOTE="zero9167"]you should have just bought the disc :?Indestructible2

No actually downloads = fail when he has a 56k modem.

You forget, Orange box no matter what he does is forced to have a steam account.. So regardless of the discs being damaged or not he could download it.. But said before he has a 56k connection meaning 10kbs top download rate..

[QUOTE="Indestructible2"] I'd rather wait a few weeks and get a game that'll actually LAST than get a game in-store and have it get damaged even when its in the case MUCH sooner.G013M

It all depends on how well your treat your disks.

I've go Game CD's from 1998 that still work perfectly fine.

I ain't gonna hijack this thread any further though,if anyones wants to continue this debate (Or flame war if you will) create a new thread.

I do appreciate everyones help. I am all set now. I guess steam was trying to download the entire game. As someone mentioned ealier in th thread, I was able to stop the download and reinstall the games from the disk. I am not sure what went wrong, but it's all good now. Thanks again, I am sure it was user error on my behalf.incompitentfps

Someday, and that day may never come - I'll call upon you to do a service for me. but until that day, accept this justice as a gift on Gamespot...

What is this Dial up you speak of?