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Re: Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser

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Post by [deleted] »

Jnr wrote: post #87
throwaway9d0291 wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most of the land isn't in Europe but most of the population is and I daresay Russians outnumber other nationalities on European servers.

Last time I checked - Valve has no game servers/entry nodes in Russia. Western Russia connects to Sweden or Poland. Northern European and Eastern European countries connect through the same nodes. Connections within Valve network are handled internally (since they can tune it for better latency, etc.) and you don't even know where the actual game server is hosted. So there is always a big mix of players no matter whe…

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Re: Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser

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Post by austincheney »

me551ah wrote: post #37

I love how people like to make browser versions of everything. From chat apps to email clients to games. But they all end up consuming 10x the memory but are still 10x slower than their native counterparts !

What is a solid alternative that allow access to applications cross OS without an explicit installation step?

Re: Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser

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Post by andybak »

koonsolo wrote: post #63
umaar wrote: post #50

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I'm all for web apps, but does CS actually require admin rights? > disk space CS just downloaded 185mb of network resources for me to play. I would have thought those resources are stored on my disk, and not just in memory. > installation time That 185mb of resources took ~1 minute to download. By the time it had finished, it told me the server was full. Regardless this is still very impressive.

I'm not going to claim that one is better than the other, because it's all about tradeoffs. But I'm sure more people played this right now because of the low barrier to entry. And the admin rights might not even be technical. Not a lot of people are fond of installing games on the laptop from work. But like I said, everything has tradeoffs.

> But I'm sure more people played this right now because of the low barrier to entry.

This is the key point. If I'd seen a post about CS with a zip of an executable I would have passed.

Why? Because it probably wouldn't have run correctly or I would have had some other issue with it.

Let alone checking the provenance and worrying about malware.

Re: Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser

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Post by zitterbewegung »

me551ah wrote: post #37

I love how people like to make browser versions of everything. From chat apps to email clients to games. But they all end up consuming 10x the memory but are still 10x slower than their native counterparts !

Well since we now have 10x the memory and 10x the compute we are able to do this.

Also, you don't need no stinkin App Store, zero time for installation. The only next step would be to have everything open source I think these are good tradeoffs. I rather have Freedom than performance and more and more tech users are doing this.

Re: Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser

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Post by thaumasiotes »

crawlcrawler wrote: post #52
rapsey wrote: post #34

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Russia is and always has been considered a European country.

I was always told Russia spans two continents.

The Russians are firmly in charge. Try asking some Turks in Russian territory whether they have an equal voice in the country compared to the Russians.

Is the US more of a European country or an Amerind country? What would its geographic location suggest?

Re: Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser

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Post by holoduke »

me551ah wrote: post #37

I love how people like to make browser versions of everything. From chat apps to email clients to games. But they all end up consuming 10x the memory but are still 10x slower than their native counterparts !

think the biggest issue with browser apps is proper asset management. what you see most of the times is a huge payload of assets getting loaded at the start. I would like to see some kind of streaming service for assets. specially with textures that would be really neat.
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