Thursday, May 7, 2009

TF2 and L4D

Team Fortress 2 and Left 4 Dead betas were updated today. Falconers can get on and play them again. Happy gaming

11 comments:

  1. how would I actually use it in game ?

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  2. Here are the current instructions on using Valve games




    Portal, Half-Life 2: Episode 2, and Team Fortress 2

    Purchase and install the Orange Box from Valve
    Launch Steam
    go to File -> Settings
    where it says "Beta participation", click "Change"
    in the pull-down, select "Novint Falcon - EP2/Portal Beta" (this name might change to another Falcon based name)
    Hit OK
    Hit OK again

    then the games should download updates. When the updates are downloaded, make sure your Falcon is plugged in and working. Then start Portal, HL2 Ep2, or Team Fortress 2 as you normally would. the Falcon will control the games.



    Left 4 Dead
    Open the Folder C:\Program Files\Steam
    Right click on Steam.exe
    Click on Create Shortcut
    Move the shortcut to your desktop, or wherever you want to access it from
    Right click on the steam shortcut, and click Properties
    The target should be something like
    "C:\Program Files\Steam\Steam.exe"
    At the end of the target add -beta l4dnofint so that the target is
    "C:\Program Files\Steam\Steam.exe" -beta l4dnofint
    make sure you have completely closed out steam before using the shortcut
    When you start Steam, Left 4 Dead will update.
    When it is done updating, you can run it, and the Falcon will control the game




    HALF-LIFE 2: EPISODE 1

    Open the Folder C:\Program Files\Steam
    Right click on Steam.exe
    Click on Create Shortcut
    Move the shortcut to your desktop, or wherever you want to access it from
    Right click on the steam shortcut, and click Properties
    The target should be something like
    "C:\Program Files\Steam\Steam.exe"
    At the end of the target add -beta ep1novint so that the target is
    "C:\Program Files\Steam\Steam.exe" -beta ep1novint
    make sure you have completely closed out steam before using the shortcut
    When you start Steam, HL2:Ep1 will update.
    When it is done updating, you can run it, and the Falcon will control the game

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  3. Great I will try it, are there any plans for a windows 7 beta driver. I am having no luck with the current dirvers and windows 7 rc x64.

    Thanks

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  4. please email customersupport@novint.com and we can see if we can help. I'm not sure when the windows 7 drivers will be available. We have had reports from some windows 7 users that the drivers work for them already. thx, tomnovint

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  5. From what I heard, Windows 7 will be able to use Vista drivers without a problem.

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  6. I have tried both of the above suggested by tomnovint. When I change my beta participation, none of the falcon betas show up, even when my Falcon is plugged in. as for the L4D beta, when I change the target name, L4D does not start updating... any suggestions?

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  7. We just released the Orange Box, so those instructions are no longer valid. To play Half-Life 2 Episodes 1&2, Portal, and Team Fortress 2, you need to install the latest drivers from out website under the support tab, and then they will just work (please make sure N VeNT is not running - run the games directly from Steam). Half-life 2 itself you can play with our mod which is downloadable from our games section of our site. Left 4 Dead you can play now by doing the following

    1) Launch Steam.
    2) Go to your 'My Games' window
    3) Right click on Left 4 Dead and select 'Properties'
    4) Click on 'Set Launch Options'
    5) In the textbox that appears, type '-Falcon' (without the quotes)
    6) Click Ok, and Launch Left 4 Dead normally

    thx, tomnovint

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  8. I'm currently using Windows 7 RC, and while I've gone through the instructions for manually installing drivers on Vista (for Win7), TF2 does not pickup my Falcon. It only finds a "gamepad". Is this just a Win7 issue so far?

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  9. At this point, the instruction for the post are old. To use the Falcon with the Orange Box now, all you need is our latest drivers. Please download those off our website (under the support tab). Remove the old drivers, install the new ones, and that should fix your problem. thx, tomnovint

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  10. No offense, but isn't it bad business to require these non-user-friendly processes to get the Falcon working with these games?

    I was thinking of getting a Falcon (mostly for Left 4 Dead), so I've been looking into how exactly it all works and I must say I'm really disappointed by how complicated it all is.

    There should just be simple little installers that people download to get the falcon working with a game.
    They download it, they double-click it and that's it.

    And it should be very easy to find these installers at the NOVINT site, and it should be very clear what exactly they're for.

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  11. The games work out of the box automatically with the Falcon now.

    The instructions on this post are very old - this was just an early way for people to test an early version. thx, tomnovint

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