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Re: Get Portal for free

#41
post #25

"The Steam servers are currently too busy to handle your request. Please try again in a few minutes"

I don't even get that, just a blank screen :(

edit: It seems to be working now. I think I needed to go verify my email first. If you are also a new Steam user trying to download portal, go check your inbox first.

Re: Get Portal for free

#45
I installed Steam on my Mac, started download of Portal, then Steam crashed to desktop. Upon restarting it prompted me for my root password so that it could update itself. The combination of crashiness and needing my root password earned it an immediate delete. I'll try again in a year or two.

Re: Get Portal for free

#47

I installed Steam on my Mac, started download of Portal, then Steam crashed to desktop. Upon restarting it prompted me for my root password so that it could update itself. The combination of crashiness and needing my root password earned it an immediate delete. I'll try again in a year or two.

I installed Steam on my Mac, started download of Portal. It saturated my 15 megabit internet connection for nearly the entire download. Portal launched just fine and ran very smoothly at 1920x1200. I already beat portal on Xbox 360. Mac version is easily as good if not better.

Re: Get Portal for free

#48
post #25

"The Steam servers are currently too busy to handle your request. Please try again in a few minutes"

I don't even get that, just a blank screen :( edit: It seems to be working now. I think I needed to go verify my email first. If you are also a new Steam user trying to download portal, go check your inbox first.

Steam is being a huge pain so far. I was downloading portal and it crashed. I relaunched it but it didn't resume downloading, yet I couldn't play the game, and didn't find a way to restart the download. Ended up deleting the whole thing and I'm now trying again from the start... sigh

edit: Great, I re-installed but it still lists Portal in my "library", and I don't see any way to re-download it or delete it or anything. This sucks.

Re: Get Portal for free

#49
post #25

"The Steam servers are currently too busy to handle your request. Please try again in a few minutes"

I don't even get that, just a blank screen :( edit: It seems to be working now. I think I needed to go verify my email first. If you are also a new Steam user trying to download portal, go check your inbox first.

I've got the blank screen too, on a Mac. Verifying my email didn't help.

Re: Get Portal for free

#50
post #23

So, this is because it's an older game? Or are the going to be getting into the virtual goods business?

2.5 years is "older"?

What do you call a movie that is not a new release? I'm not sure what the right terminology is. A catalog movie maybe?

old: 1 having lived for a long time; no longer young

portal is no longer young, older seems reasonable to me.

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