I agree, i fired up the old 1.6 the other day and i had forgotten about the old download status bar. Would be nice to get this back!
On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 8:13 AM, Cc2iscooL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alright, I know this is only for the select few of us who run custom > maps on our source servers, but I'd like to see a better download bar > for the Source2 engine. > > What does this mean? > > Remember back in the old 1.6 engine, when each file had it's own > download bar, and you could actually tell (sort of) the filesize that > you were downloading? Why can't we do that with the Source2 engine? It'd > be nice if the download bar would tell you what you're downloading as > well as displaying the size and the download status, instead of this > silly one-bar-for-all-files-plus-extraction kinda thing that's going on > now. If you're a server administrator and compress files on your > webserver to .bz2, your clients see a download bar that goes halfway. If > there's a large map (TF2 maps are getting larger and larger) we see > clients leaving just due to the halved download bar, because the first > half shows the overall file download progress (oh, and it doesn't care > what the filesizes are of any custom files, so if you have two or more, > good luck) and the second half shows the extraction and load process. > > So my question is...why can't we have anything to better inform the > clients of what they're downloading and exactly how big it is? It would > be very useful to us as server operators, I'd think, but correct me if > I'm wrong. > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > -- -------- Chillidog Systems - Re-inventing the wheel for the sake of all humanity! -------- _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
