For anybody that might be worried about the decline I'd like to point out that I've gone years without receiving a Steam survey, only to turn around and have three or four in a year. This year for example I've received four surveys. One on Windows and three on Linux, two of which were in the same month a couple days apart, so clearly Valve's polling method is far from perfect.

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Unfortunately it claims my drivers (AMD 14.12 Omega) are out of date. :-/

"Your driver version is too old. Please install the latest video drivers."

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I will be tuning in for this show. It's not every day you get to hear a grown man scream like a little girl. *snicker*

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I tried it when the previous version first came out. I never could get a hang of the controls so it ended up in the recycle bin. :-/

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I'd be (pleasantly) surprised if they really did support hardware back that far.

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Not in a million years (but I can dream); Dead Space.

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I gave it a go, but as soon as it loaded I encountered a game breaking bug. For whatever reason the mouse input seems to be broken. Every time I moved the mouse it'd move about five degrees and then it'd jump right back to where it was. :-/

Hopefully Steam will have another free weekend when the game is in a more stable state.

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Quoting: HonorEDnlKScariest moment: I was playing silent hill 1 at 3 AM, after killing the giant dog and getting out of the school I was searching for the hospital when I heard a girl's scream outside (irl). There's a ravine behind my house, and the window on my room faces the ravine. The scream came from there. I never played silent hill again, and could not sleep that night. It could've been an animal, but it really sounded like a human.

You didn't go investigate?! :O

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For me the scariest moment I can recall during a game happened while I was playing Eternal Darkness Sanity's Requiem on the GameCube. Despite the title this is far from the scariest game out there, so after playing for quite a while I had been lulled into the sense that nothing truly frightening would happen. As many reviews had pointed out the game was very gory and at times a little weird, but not scary.

As I was exploring the bathroom in mansion's master bedroom it happened; a fast and brutal cut scene of my character's corpse lying in a bathtub full of blood. It was accompanied by a woman's scream.

The scene paled in comparison to the many horror scenes I've seen in games before, yet it scared me like no other game ever did. I can only attribute the intensity of this scare to the false sense of security the game had carefully crafted leading up to it.

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Quoting: vulturei know my english is not the best, but...

Support for Linux, OSX and Windows Vista will supported in the future.

support will be supported?

This is what happens when you spend all day looking at code. ;-)

Support for Linux, OSX and Windows Vista will supported in the future.

I find it interesting that they're still planning on supporting Vista with such a feature. Not only is Vista a marginal OS, but it's also a significantly older OS at that. As such it's reasonable to assume that most Vista users are running older hardware that's less likely to have the power to simultaneously render a game and encode a video stream.

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