Finally got HL2 and CS after upgrading my PC - not played the old CS in
ages and I was really beginning to miss it!
The point of this post is to comment on how crap Steam still is! I
remember having endless hassles with it on the original CS and its not

who still posts here who used to from 1999
like cs beta 5.2
wwwwweeeeeee miss sven!
i know lief is a "old" guy :-D

does eney one have exp with ict
just sh.ts me with the flash light turning on and of with every shot

Since the last update, CS keeps locking during gameplay forcing me to
hard reboot.
I have a Dell 4600
P4 2.8Ghz

This is lame and I got Ban because my dam kid was cheating using my account.
What is even more lame is this is for life. Who the hell made these rules? I
can see being ban for a month or two but for good? I even tried to call
Sierra... What a joke that was.. I call all the way to ...

I played CS and sucked at it pretty bad about 3 years ago, and recently
found my CD and thought what the hell. Steam installed, update took
more than 24 hours to come down and et voila joined a server to play. I
still suck pretty bad BTW. :)

Hey, extreme newb here, only about six months, all in CS:S, never the
original.
I see these cool NVG's you can buy, but never have.
Why?  Because I've never seen a spot that needed 'em!!  Sounds like the

These guys have a good deal on clan servers, much cheaper than
Mutiplayer.co.uk.
http://www.4u-servers.co.uk/index.php?page=home&ref=6927

I've got a reasonable system, (P4 3.2 hyperthreader, 1gb ddr2 ram,
6600GT graphics card, good motherboard) but its taking me a good 5
minutes to join a game.  WinXP sp2 installation is about 2 months old.
I've done a new CSS install.  NIS 2005 seems to be configured OK.  I'm

The recent update re-introduced multiple skins and the selection thereof
after choosing a team.
Has anyone else noticed that you can choose a team then leave the game
sitting at the skin selection screen (while you go for a ciggi) without

Yo,
STEAM uses around 50% resources / CPU usage after it sits for a bit.  There
are no downloads going on VIA Steam or otherwise, no games being played, no
unusual other processes.  Nothing is happening on the system at all except

I need to get hold of a budget GFX card for my second compy - which do you
think would run CS better a GF 6600GT or an old Rad 9800 Pro?
Thanks for any opinions or experience!
Steve

Here and come join our server
82.94.228.31:27015

Anybody know of any?

http://steampowered.com/Steam/Marketing/January13.2006/img/CSS_Militia.jpg
They've proper changed the map, i'm a bit unsure to what this screen is, is
it where the ct's come out of spawn faced with the daunting task of running
to the house?