Re: New To The Server? Introduce Yourself Here!

**Cpt.Pierce** · 05-23-2008, 07:50 PM

Originally Posted by MagnaCentipede

Welcome. I take it from your signature you will be primarily Sniper? : )

Haha possibly, long story with that.
Long story short I was on an LAN game with a friend (COD2) and I kept sniping him and jumping off buildings to weapon slam him. He thought it was hilarious and asked if I could do the same thing in Battlefield (2142). I said kind of, it wasn't as effective, so he watched that for a while and made that sig for me.

I watched another friend playing as a scout in TF2 and figured that looked fun, but then again, it all does. And Steam is now at an amazing 67% complete. At this rate I can play next week

**MagnaCentipede** · 05-23-2008, 08:14 PM

Did you set your connection rate properly? Or are you on a thin pipe? Steam can be slow, but that seems excessive. Also, if you know someone with the game who's local, I think they can put the GCF files on a DVD or two for you.

**Cpt.Pierce** · 05-23-2008, 08:27 PM

The connection speed is correct. It's not blazing, but I've downloaded a game over Steam before in like half the time with no issues.
I have no real problem with the 40-50 KB/s speeds, its not quick, but that's life. My main problem is that the download randomly stops after a minute or so, and I have to
a) pause and resume download
b) if that fails, click the launch game button, resulting in
c) a minute of so of working, then 'trouble connecting to Steam servers,' making me do
d) click the retry connection button and repeat c or
e) that failing, restart Steam and start over

Not too bad, except I can't step away from the computer for more than 5 minutes. No good for school or sleeping, it does maybe 2-5% during both those 8 hour time periods.
I'm not behind a router (unplugged it and connected directly before I started), have tried the client registry fix and the command prompt speed touch fix (no luck). So for now I'll just click 'Retry connection' continuously, read some TG:TF2 AAR's and Rules, google under more clever searches based around 'Steam download problems' and hope a solution comes up.

The DVD thing is a good idea, the friend I mentioned in an earlier post could do it for me, I'll ask if TF2 doesn't look near finished by Tuesday (next time I'll see him). Which file can be copied safely across accounts, I haven't done much/any of that type of stuff. Can he simply copy all his TF2 files onto the DVD, or can certain ones not be?
Thanks in advance for any help.
P.S. just reached 70%

**MagnaCentipede** · 05-23-2008, 08:35 PM

The related GCF files should be all you need. If TF2 is your only source game, then you just need a copy of all those files. (The files will be large on your drive even though they are empty, because a GCF file is actually a virtual drive partition sort-of-thing, and thus Steam makes a gigabyte-sized file full of zeroes, and fills it with the virtual files.) You don't need his TF2 folder or anything like that. If you have other Steam games it'd be tricker to know which GCF's you need, but obviously the ones that have Team Fortress in their name would be a start.

**Cpt.Pierce** · 05-23-2008, 08:56 PM

I'll look into it if need be, though it may, as you said, get complicated due to my possession of:
CS:S
Hl2
HL2: DM
HL: Source
and HL Deathmatch: Source

If I need it, the files are in my
C\Program Files\Valve\Steam\SteamApps folder correct?

**MagnaCentipede** · 05-24-2008, 12:12 AM

Yes. The good news is that the common files are already in your posession, so just the TF2 GCFs may be enough.

**Delta** · 05-25-2008, 10:44 PM

Heya kids! Just got this game today. Hope to see y'all on the server.

**MagnaCentipede** · 05-26-2008, 02:39 AM

Excellent.

**Chewy** · 05-26-2008, 07:12 PM

Originally Posted by Delta

Heya kids! Just got this game today. Hope to see y'all on the server.

Awesome, look forward to seeing you on!

**Cpt.Pierce** · 05-27-2008, 04:59 PM

Finished downloading. See you most weekends and the occasional weeknight.

**CryOfTheWulfen** · 05-29-2008, 07:06 AM

Hi guys, ive recently aquired (sp?) TF2, but how can i find the server easily without trawling through hundreds of servers? please help some one!!

Cry Wolf

**MagnaCentipede** · 05-29-2008, 08:09 AM

connect 75.125.97.195:27015

**CryOfTheWulfen** · 05-29-2008, 09:18 AM

thanks ill try that when i next go on!

Cry Wolf

**TheFeniX** · 05-29-2008, 04:59 PM

You can also use the DNS record to connect:

connect tf2.tacticalgamer.com

**cstealth** · 07-22-2008, 01:09 AM

I got this game a week or two ago but just started getting on the server recently.
I shifted over form css
Its very different its not as straight forward as css
Hope to see you all on the server

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