I'm having a really strange issue with Steam. I own more than 100 titles on Steam, but nothing related to Half-Life 1. I did own the original Half-Life and its expansions Opposing Force and Blue Shift on retail CDs, which I had purchased at the time of release. There was no Steam at that time. After Steam was launched, I never bothered to activate these three games on Steam, but I did buy the Orange Box, so Half-Life 2 and its related games were present in my Steam Library. Today, I had to reinstall Windows OS due to some issues, and Ii also reinstalled Steam. Then, to my disbelief, I found that all single player and multi player games related to Half-Life 1 (Half-Life, Opposing Force, Blue Shift, Team Fortress Classic, Deathmatch Classic, Day of Defeat, Counter Strike and Ricochet) were seen in my Steam library. I thought it might be a mistake, so I tried downloading them. I realized that I was able to download and even play each one of these games. I really can't understand what happened, because I had never registered these games on Steam, although I owned the retail discs. Since Valve has this reputation of banning users according to its whims and fancies, I'm scared that they might accuse me of 'stealing' those games and ban me. If I'm banned, I'll be losing my entire collection of over 100 games. Please help me out. Thank you.

funkyzoom

Someone correct me if i wrong but if you're banned you will not lose your games.

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Now i have to upgrade to next gen. I dont have a pc. My two options are to either buy a ps4 when it would be out or build a gaming pc with 760 as the gpu. Would this gpu be future proof?

 

What do you guys suggest? What would be a smarter choice?

kunalanand50

PC is better in about every segment but it's just a bit more expensive to get into.People buy console because they can't afford a good gaming pc and upgrades.

GTX760 is great 250$ card and will last for about 3 years on 1080p.

Pc exclusives vs console excl.- i prefer pc exclusives like mmo,rts,strategic,thousands of web games and others. But people aren't same so you have to ask yourself what you prefer more.

I certainly wouldnt like to miss out on ps4 exclusives. Even if i build a gaming pc,ps4 is something i would get in some months. But i want to have that amazing pc experience as well.

I agree console exclusives are great but once you finish it in 4-5 hours you can toss the game as there are no replayability.On the other hand pc games like civilization,europa universalis,total war,planetside,war of tanks,world of warcart,arma,dayz,command & conquer,settlers,sim city,xcom,starcraft,dota,star wars,arma 3,eve (this only i can remember this minute) are all games that you can play for months/years.But only you know if you prefer those games.

I bought pc cuz of- cheap games,mouse keyboard,exclusives

What would i be missing if i select one of the two?

I am gonna try to have my father finance half the pc,thrn i would buy the ps4 and other half of the pc from my own money so that i can get best of both worlds.

kunalanand50

Gaming PC and ps4 would be best duo:-).

But if i have to choose i would go definitely for PC.I'm not fanboy,i'm just being objective.

PC exclusives can give you hundreds of hours of replayability,rts,startegic,free to play,mmo.There are so many games for pc.I owned x360 and after i upgrade to PC i didn't know what i would play first,i bought so much game bundles for cheap.I own more games in this few months on PC than i ever did in 8 years on xbox.

-mouse precision -if you want to play fps only mouse can give you that speed and precision 

-probably in battlefield 5 consoles will again get 24player game

Now i have to upgrade to next gen. I dont have a pc. My two options are to either buy a ps4 when it would be out or build a gaming pc with 760 as the gpu. Would this gpu be future proof?

 

What do you guys suggest? What would be a smarter choice?

kunalanand50

PC is better in about every segment but it's just a bit more expensive to get into.People buy console because they can't afford a good gaming pc and upgrades.

GTX760 is great 250$ card and will last for about 3 years on 1080p.

Pc exclusives vs console excl.- i prefer pc exclusives like mmo,rts,strategic,thousands of web games and others. But people aren't same so you have to ask yourself what you prefer more.

[QUOTE="gigatrainer"]Thanks guys :D, I just ordered MSI GTX760 (N760 TF 2GD5-OC), it was the cheapest I could find (23k INR with shipping, GTX670 goes for around 30k INR with shipping) and apparently it had good reviews too.kraken2109

Gtx is a great card and even gtx780 won't bottleneck i5 2500

GTA V on the PC, alongside San Francisco and Las Vegas DLC please.chrisrooR

Am i the onle one who want to see GTA 6 Miami

Hey guys.

I bought my rig about 5-6 years ago, and at the time, it was a mean machine.  But I just got Rome 2, and it's finally starting to show it's age in a bad way.  It's also been giving me trouble with Planetside 2, although turning down the graphics didn't bug me as much until I started flying more.

Intel i7 CPU 870@2.93Ghz   2.67 GHz
8Gb Ram
NVidia GeForce GTX 460 SE

I'm looking at upgrade my video card- what would be a good recommendation that's compatible with my current rig, and would also garuantee I could play the next generation games with some degree of graphic depth- it doesn't necessarily have to be the newest and best.

Any input is good input, and I can provide additional info as needed.  Thanks guys! 

monstachruck

Gtx 760 would be great upgrade path from a 3 year old 460. 760 will(probably) run all games at 1080 high settings in next 2 years

Solitaire on 1080p high settings 8xAA

Miniclip is fine