darkfire010

Well thats interesting. But now I've found maybe a better way. I'm working on getting VMWare to run off of a Linux Base.

I was wondering if it is possible to run Counter-Strike 1.6 off of a network share. My programming teacher at school lets us play and occasionally plays with us in our Java/Visual Basic lab. But we may not be able to continue if we have to install it on every computer. The Steam Files are registry so it would all be ligitimate. If not possible with Steam than we can use our retail versions of Counter-Strike 1.5. Well i found the solution to my problem. I shared my steam folder over the network (in offline mode) then on each computer i just mapped that share to a drive letter. Then i just created a shorcut to it using the drive letter rather than the \\ and host name. It works great. I have tried this so far with me and 20 friends all playing on one copy!!! off of one share..!!

@ N1K Hate to tell ya, but Valve games had Deathmatch before Unreal Tournament. The original Half-Life 1 (released in 1999) had Deathmatch, and since its success, Deathmatch has become more common. Just a friendly FYI.

The How To above is an interesting approach. Fast and unprotected (no anti-virus)(I do use Spybot occasionaly) does it for me. I just make a stripped down version of XP Pro and partition my HDD into two partitions; C & D. Partition C is usually 5GB because my newly installed windows is only +/- 2GB. I install all my programs and have my desktop and other high-traffic places set to be on partition D, along with a backup folder for games and such. I mostly play Valve (Half-Life and other mods), Epic (Unreal series), EA Games (the Battlefield Games), Lucas Arts (Jedi Knights II), and Blizzard (Warcraft III). And I also do a little bit of web design. I use Opera and Mozilla Firefox because secure and fast browsing is a key. The only things I have to reinstall are programs that heavily rely on the registry. (MS Office, Nero, and Adobe software) So if I do get a virus or nasty spyware or my computer just is running too slow, I spend +/-30 min. and reformat. For me that is more valuable. I sat down one saturday and spent a few hours making every thing automated using Microsoft's deploy tool, and It has been really handy. One Installation usually last me a couple of months. Windows Xp is installed in about +/- 15 min, and the other time is spent installing the software. I DONT have to redownload (through Steam) any of the Valve games because they're all on the other partition. If anyone wants any more information PM me and I will post a HOW TO. @wolf74481 Nice work on the How To and keep up the good work. My response is not to bash yours or be negative. This way (the one I described above) is what works for me and I'm just putting it out there incase it might benefit anyone.

@gdogg I have looked over all the stuff you have posted and your stripped down version is gonna be awesome! Good job and keep up the good work. I hate to see people not be supportive. Im just wondering why you don't post your config files as you build betas? I think this is a really great idea and will end up great. But why the secrecy? J/W