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Old 5th May 2008
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Originally Posted by James Yates View Post
why would you want that?
Because to run the game you first have to open steam. On my PC steam takes longer to start up than the game itself. Then you have the fact steam sits in the background chewing up about 60mb of ram. And lastly I find steam games a bit more buggish, alt+tabbing out of steam games seems to confuse my computer compared to alt+tabbing out of non-steam games.

The advantage of steam is that here in Australia we can buy games via steam at US prices, which are usually far cheaper than buying it in Australia. ;)
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