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LAUNCH GAME - INSTALL DIRECT X

BUY GAMES YOU'VE BEEN MEANING TO PLAY - CONTINUE PLAYING GAME WITH 300+ LOGGED HOURS INSTEAD

Yes, even Steam has it’s own advice meme now! Seriously though, why does every new game I buy need to install Direct X? Like… seriously, it’s on there by now!
By FuZ3 and Kyuuketsuki respectively.

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Posted by Shawn Handyside on December 3, 2010 · 11:07 AM 
FAILLAMENOT BADPRETTY GOODAWESOME (195 votes, average: 4.59 out of 5)
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Advice Meme, Irony, PC, Publishers, Valve Software

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Buy 5 games in a discount pack

Only play one
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14 replies · active 686 weeks ago
Find a way to buy on Steam...

...one day after mega-discounts

[[HOLY FUCKIN SHIT, E-PEEN APOCALYPSE ATTACKED ME AS WELL! -30p! D:]
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7 replies · active 751 weeks ago
Buy a game because you simply can't wait...
...wait 6 hours while it downloads.
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2 replies · active 751 weeks ago
play game you just installed... find out it just got discounted

get free updates... laugh at xbox players
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3 replies · active 751 weeks ago
install steam
play minecraft instead
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4 replies · active 751 weeks ago
Me: I'm pretty sure I have Direct X installed.

Steam: Nope.avi
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"CONTINUE PLAYING GAME WITH +300 LOGGED HOURS INSTEAD"

...World of Warcraft?

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7 replies · active 751 weeks ago
I never had this problem,my direct x is always top percentage of all direct x
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1 reply · active 751 weeks ago
Finally done installing game.
OH LOOK! A NEW UPDATE!!!
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Buy Portal.

Becomes free next week.

I almost went all crazy German kid on that one.
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1 reply · active 751 weeks ago
Connect to Steam

Lose connection to Steam.
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Buy a new hat.

Receive a free poker game.

(I will buy it for the game itself, but i already feel like an outcast).
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Steam Advice... reporting the truth.

First Case: Who needs DirectX when you can have... SOFTWARE RENDERING? I mean really, who needs a GPU these days. http://transgaming.com/business/swiftshader (hurr advertisement, I know)

Second Case: This happens... Every. Goddamn. Time. Why do you torture me with your awesomeness when I can only long to touch you for a few measly hours--
FUCKING BRAIN HOW DOES IT WORK

EDIT: 72p to 18p, RUN FOR YOUR LIVES IT'S THE E-PEEN APOCALYPSE
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9 replies · active 751 weeks ago
*sees yet another advice meme*

Oh.

*goes back to playing solitaire*
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7 replies · active 751 weeks ago
Log on to Steam

See friends only playing Non-Steam Games
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Advice memes: now applicable to just about everything
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7 replies · active 751 weeks ago
See new advice meme

Groan because there will be nothing better to comment on for hours.
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Download 47 copies of Direct X
Start downloading number 48
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Farming Simulator 2011. That is all.
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Play Team Fortress 2 for 612.4 hours

Brag to WoW fans
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The internet. It's flooded with advice memes.
Make a new one anyway just to see people complain?


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I swear, if noone but me gets this picture I just made.... >_>
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2 replies · active 751 weeks ago
Here's one for the Mac users:

Finally arrive on Macintosh
Refuse to load

Good thing I'm dual boot.
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Ask your father to get you TF2.

Get denied. Rage all night.

Beg and beg until he gets you TF2.

Download TF2.

Find out that TF2 doesn't work on Windows 7.

Buy Vista to get TF2 to function.

Find out VALVe is making Steam host Portal for free for two weeks.

Find out that your computer can't play anything but GMod and TF2.

Rage again.
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3 replies · active 751 weeks ago
Add Friends

Get Trolled by those Friends
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1 reply · active 751 weeks ago
Friend gifts you new game for your birthday.

1.5 hours Played

Insert a shame image at your own leisure......
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Download Steam so you can play Team Fortress 2.

Find out that there is no more space for the actual game.
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hmm... lets see here.
TF2 - 168 hours
Dues Ex - 6 hours
Gary's mod - 0 hours
Blade Kitten - Computer not fast enough to play over 1fps
FUUUUUUUU!!!! so damn true.
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I'm honestly starting to think I spend more time installing DirectX than actually playing anything.
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I saw that roller coaster tycoon was on sale, so i bought the whole expanded pack for $30... It was one of my favorite games as a kid.... but i still play TF2 instead...
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Steam Offers Wishlist Games Free

Actually Believe You'll Win
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Launch Steam

Install update every time
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*reinstall Steam*
OK that should do it...
*crashes again*
FUUUUUUUUU!

I have a sugestion!

Play Team Fortress 2
HalfLife2.exe Crashes

Seriously, am I the ONLY one here that gets this damn crash? I can't find a perminant solution to this D=<
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3 replies · active 751 weeks ago
Buy a dozen games

Find out you don't have SSE2 support

true story
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This meme needs a theme...
May I suggest Giles theme?
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1 reply · active 751 weeks ago
Launch Steam

See friends playing "Non-Steam game Boobhat"
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300? baby time is puny
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Paid $70 for a special on a huge game pack, about 40 games... played like five of them.
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Don't have Steam installed.

Have no worry in the world.
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2 replies · active 751 weeks ago
oh man, I've done the bottom one so much it's not even funny.
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I know how to avoid the Direct X installs. Unfortunately, it cuts the amount of actual games available to you way down.
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In total, so far there were two reasons for me to update the DX9 legacy components in Win7:
1) Worms Reloaded on Steam (did it manually as mentioned on Team17 forum, just to be annoyed by Steam many times after to update my up-to-date DirectX and Visual C++ runtimes).
2) Quake 1, as in DirectQ (the code base of all other OpenGL ports is soooo 1997).
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BUY TEAM FORTRESS 2

WAIT A FORTNIGHT WHILE IT UPDATES
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1 reply · active 751 weeks ago
GET A NEW GAME, INSTALL WINDOWS NETWORK FRAMEWORK

FIND OUT THE GAME IS OFFLINE
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When in doubt - blame Gabe.
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Validate Game Files

Crash Windows XP
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Only start on steam when portal was free. Snicker whenever it goes on sale.
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Hey, if you this is bad, you should see Gamestop's site, it's a fu*king mess!!!
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I know nothing of steam and so shall go into NPC mode.
*eyes glaze over and begins walking in a predictable pattern*
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1 reply · active 751 weeks ago

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