Any problems with Steam downloaded SE V?

Dogboy · #1 May 24th, 2008, 06:39 PM

I'm about to host an SE V game for a group of friends. We've patched to 1.71 and installed the latest Balance Mod. One of them downloaded SEV via Steam. We see that the directory structure is a bit different. Has anyone used this version in a multiplayer match, and did it cause any problems?

Thanks!

Suicide Junkie · #2 May 25th, 2008, 01:45 AM

The install location of SE does not matter, if that's what you mean. The internal directory structure should be the same, however.

Randallw · #3 May 25th, 2008, 01:52 AM

There will be a problem. Steam automatically patches when you start it. If everyone else patches manually then you would normally keep the same version until everyone can patch there's. The person with Steam will find he suddenly can't play because Steam has patched his game without asking.

Fyron · #4 May 25th, 2008, 01:54 AM

You can turn auto-patching off in Steam pretty easily. I don't recall the exact procedure, but a quick search should turn it up.

Randallw · #5 May 25th, 2008, 02:40 AM

It's been a problem in my PBW games, but I suppose in those cases they didn't know to turn it off. I have Steam, but only for my copy of Portal. I made sure it wasn't going to effect SEV.