AMD and Valve team up to provide ATI Catalyst updates on Steam

[BrowncoatGR]

Windows is supposed to reboot after the driver installation and / OR the control panel installation.

On Windows 7 no reboot is needed

[fellix_bg]

Steam just updated itself and apparently the new feature is enabled now:

[Dezmen]

Yeah, but i can't find any Update button for drivers :S Or they didn't put it on 100% ?

/edit After steam update, it will reboot itself... Turn steam off and run again. Will show you news about drivers and click Check Now, it will start dl drivers

[madcho]

yeah first 'bug ?'

i got a message : " Setup detected incomplete build : setup will now exit".

I hope this is not serious

[Tom128]

Then there's it joke of game prices, Fallout 3 / Assasins creed 2 only £30!.. Or go downtown your local game store and get them for £12.99.
Where, get this? Not only do you get a case, you can actually get rid of them when your done!

You can't be serious on this one. Are you? Steam prices are so much lower than any retail store I have been to. Even when Steam isn't having a sale the prices are better than the store, let alone when they do have sales. I spent around $90 at christmas time and got more games than I think I will be able to beat this year!

[FirePhoenixCtk]

GJ steam, I Like!
Wonder if they will support nvidia at some point too?

[eXa]

Yeah, but i can't find any Update button for drivers :S Or they didn't put it on 100% ?

/edit After steam update, it will reboot itself... Turn steam off and run again. Will show you news about drivers and click Check Now, it will start dl drivers

But where can we find it when it otherwise?

[generics_user]

There is a 50 / 50 chance of it happening with the ATI drivers. I have no idea why but one way or another, you should reboot in order to ensure everything is working properly.

reboot is only required when you manually uninstall the driver first or on a fresh windows installation; running the new driver setup without removing the old drivers first (as recommended by AMD) is much more trouble free, creates less errors and requires no reboot

[Yvese]

GJ steam, I Like!
Wonder if they will support nvidia at some point too?

Don't think so. Valve have been partners with ATi for some time now. I'm not surprised this AMD integration happened.

This can only mean great things for AMD

[Frontl1ne]

updated to 10.9 with Steam, everything worked fine. Though it automatically does an express install for you which is quite annoying. Also it doesn't update crossfire profiles

[zanzabar]

and i still cannot update past 10.7 with server08r2, running server has worked fine for years but now the break it when they use the same drivers. i have no idea how they did it

[thatdude90210]

But where can we find it when it otherwise?

Maybe you found this already. It's from the top menu, drop down under "steam." You'll see "update AMD video drivers..."

[xman01]

this is an excellent idea. time will tell.

[HotGore]

Tried to update from 10.8 to 10.9 via Steam and the ATI installer crashed

[Razmatazz]

reboot is only required when you manually uninstall the driver first or on a fresh windows installation; running the new driver setup without removing the old drivers first (as recommended by AMD) is much more trouble free, creates less errors and requires no reboot

So why then do you believe that AMD recommends doing things their way? I would assume that they would not recommend a process that creates more trouble, creates more errors, and requires a reboot.

[Manicdan]

^i think their installation tool should also uninstall for you, or atleast provide a checkbox option to do that as part of the process. its just too often skipped, and since vista your old drivers get saved off so when you uninstall it just goes back one version

[ryan92084]

crashed several times trying to update through steam. no problems using the standard download /shrug

[Craftyman.]

updated from 10.4 => 10.9 just fine.

[saaya]

IF it will work properly... great...

[BababooeyHTJ]

It is a really good idea. Honestly if you are posting here I doubt that this will really help you out much.

[Mechromancer]

Mine updated perfectly from 10.8 to 10.9. Valve always provides quality on Steam in my experience.

[cx-ray]

You can't be serious on this one. Are you? Steam prices are so much lower than any retail store I have been to. Even when Steam isn't having a sale the prices are better than the store, let alone when they do have sales. I spent around $90 at christmas time and got more games than I think I will be able to beat this year!

That mostly only applies to the US market. In the EU many countries have to pay a 1 USD :1 EURO exchange rate for games. For instance, if L4D2 is $39.99 we would have to pay €39.99. That's 30% higher at this moment of writing. It gets even stranger though. My friends in the UK and in some other places in Europe are charged a fair USD exchange rate for games. Why not everyone else? Finally, almost everything is cheaper for me from amazon in the UK (including the shipping). Only Steam specials are less...but anything worth getting (for me) I already got long ago.

[Nano2k]

I was one of the falsely banned people from MW2 and when I tried to submit a ticket about it all I got was copy and paste answers and insults and flaming on the "community support" forums. It sucked really really bad and at no time did anyone tell us there was maybe a mistake and maybe we would be unbanned, it was all you cheated you are banned crap and massive amounts of trolling on the forums.

This shows that you can spend a lot of money on Steam and at the flick of a switch they can cut you off. Besides their anti-cheat system is a load of crap as you can barely find a MW2 game without a hacker inside when the automatic matchmaking does not actually send you on a hacked server by itself. They even deleted a L4D 2 copy from my account because I bought the game code from Ebay.

Their EULA is a joke and I'm sure it's illegal in most countries, but yet what do you do if you are in Europe like me? you get shafted that's all.

The only reason I like steam is because you can buy games cheap thanks to it, but at the cost of being eventually shafted by them at any time.

[Circaflex]

I think ive seen a false positive ban maybe once or twice and valve quickly fixed it. Chances are you cheated or exploited a file and were banned quit lying to yourself.

[Nano2k]

I think ive seen a false positive ban maybe once or twice and valve quickly fixed it. Chances are you cheated or exploited a file and were banned quit lying to yourself.

Are you serious or are you trying to be funny?

"Steam proprietor Valve Software has apologised after its cheat-detection software banned over twelve thousand innocent Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 players"

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/64897

The super first answer from support. Notice how totally sure they are it's legitimate.

Thank you for contacting Steam Support. Our system indicates that this account has been permanently banned by the Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC) from Modern Warfare 2 Multiplayer for use of cheats or other unauthorized modifications to the game (such as a console unlocker, etc.). We will not disclose the cheats which were detected, nor will we provide the date and time the infraction took place. We have confirmed that the ban on the account was applied legitimately and it cannot be removed.

Everyone of us got the same exact copy/paste answer, so much for a gamer friendly company and support. Lucky they fessed up at the end.