Free Steam Games For ATI Radeon Owners

Free Steam Games For ATI Radeon Owners

NienorGT on 31 May 2007 - 13:06 · 34 comments & 25998 views

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Valve has announced that effective immediately, ATI Radeon owners can download a free copy of Half-Life 2: Lost Coast and Half-Life 2: Deathmatch through Steam. The software will automatically confirm the presence of ATI Radeon hardware and offer access to the two games.

In related news, Steam will be included with the ATI Catalyst driver and software suit until early 2008 and ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT owners will, upon release, receive Team Fortress 2, Portal, and Half-Life 2: Episode Two through Valve's content delivery application.

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(1 reply) #1 IceBreakerG on 31 May 2007 - 13:17

Wasn't Half-Life 2: Lost Coast free from the beginning? It's just a tech demo to show off the changes they made when they implemented HDR Lighting. So I don't see what's so special about that. As far as HL2 Deathmatch, I dunno, I'd rather play Counter-Strike: Source.

#1.1 Rob2687 on 31 May 2007 - 13:24

I think it was only free if you had Half Life 2.

(3 replies) #2 Aq3e on 31 May 2007 - 13:24

Since the blackbox was canceled and now they have the orange box, and I bought the Radeon 2900XT , with the voucher, would I still get all of those games still or no?

#2.1 PureLegend on 31 May 2007 - 15:11

Half Life 2: Black Box was cancelled? WTF?

#2.2 +Dakkaroth on 31 May 2007 - 22:27

Again, wtf?

#2.3 Aq3e on 01 Jun 2007 - 13:16

Try here

#3 spacer on 31 May 2007 - 13:33

Ugh, you know just once I'd like to see a Steam news article that said something to the effect of, "HL2:E2, Portal, and TF2 are finished! Get ready to finally play them next week." I don't know why, but every time I see a new, non-HL2:E2 related Steam article I get ****ed off.

On topic: Free games always =

#4 quintesse on 31 May 2007 - 14:10

Of course I have to wonder what happens when you exchange your ATI card in the future for another.

Normally you get the CDs with the card you buy but knowing Steam they'll probably lock you out.

#5 YaZoR on 31 May 2007 - 14:53

So if I go and plug in my old radeon 7000 in it'll let me downlaod them, then slap my gf 7900gt back in, it'll let me play them at a useable frame rate?

'king stupid!

#6 Hankyone on 31 May 2007 - 16:22

I borrowed an ATI card from my friend while i wait for my nVidia card to come back from RMA

(1 reply) #7 Xenomorph on 31 May 2007 - 17:27

well, i guess i could just have my friends log into their Steam account on my system, as it has an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro.

is this for all ATI cards?

even the super old Rage 128? what about the old "Mach 64" line or whatever the heck their ancient stuff was.

#7.1 YaZoR on 31 May 2007 - 22:02

Quote - (Xenomorph said @ #7)

is this for all ATI cards?

even the super old Rage 128? what about the old "Mach 64" line or whatever the heck their ancient stuff was.

Are they Radeon cards? Did you read the article properly?

The answer to both, is the same.

No.

(2 replies) #8 OPaul on 31 May 2007 - 18:27

How does it check you have an ATI card? Sounds like it could be fairly easy to fool.

#8.1 Sn4k36 on 31 May 2007 - 19:08

Getting that info is pretty easy.. Since all of your hardware is listed in a .ini file even in the registery.. So i don't think it'll be that easy to fool..

#8.2 Computer Guru on 31 May 2007 - 20:16

It's not listed in a .ini file or anything, the application sends a query to the low-lever drive system to identify the make and model of the piece of hardware sitting in the AGP slot.

You can't fool that without hacking Windows to use an emulated BIOS.

(1 reply) #9 Kushan on 31 May 2007 - 18:49

I used to have a 9800, now I have a 6800...Will it still give me free stuff, I wonder?

#9.1 +Nienor on 31 May 2007 - 19:20

No.

Quote -

The software will automatically confirm the presence of ATI Radeon hardware and offer access to the two games.

#10 Dark Ride on 31 May 2007 - 20:14

I posted this yesterday already. You're welcome ... NOT!

http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=564103

#11 Crackler on 31 May 2007 - 23:23

Nice find, thanks!

(1 reply) #12 czanchez on 31 May 2007 - 23:34

Anyway to install steam offline? My Radeon computer does not have access to the internet.

#12.1 Harreh on 01 Jun 2007 - 14:28

Install it and find out what happens.

You might be able to get things activated on your radeon comp, then load the account on the internet comp and download everything, then make a backup of the games (which I think also compresses them) to a DVD or something.

(1 reply) #13 Rage Of Fury on 31 May 2007 - 23:35

I keep getting an "your subscription to steam has not been completed" error

#13.1 aNILEator on 01 Jun 2007 - 22:58

Quote - (Rage Of Fury said @ #13)

I keep getting an "your subscription to steam has not been completed" error

same

#14 KHaKi- on 02 Jun 2007 - 05:29

What it says when you install them: You can only do this with one ACCOUNT (they dont want you to keep doing it repeatedly...but thats up to you to uphold the EULA). After agree it says: You can log into this account from ANY computer.

So it seems to say that if you can get access to a comp with ati gfx you can get this for free, it didn't say anything about re-scanning for ATi after install either...but who knows.

(1 reply) #15 EnzoFX on 02 Jun 2007 - 10:06

DM owns imo

#15.1 Doli on 03 Jun 2007 - 01:48

I was happy to get 2 free games, well one free game and a tech demo but Half Life 2 DM is a big disappointment to me. Feels a bit buggy in the gameplay. Im going to keep playing DM to let it grow on me and ill see it i want to stay with it because im bored of F.E.A.R. Combat.

If their main purpose was to get people to try Steam and a taste of Half Life through "Lost coast" then good job because I am now going to buy Half Life 2 + Episode 1 for $25 through Steam.

#16 well... on 02 Jun 2007 - 11:03

I wonder if this includes radeon xpress in laptops?

(1 reply) #17 rIaHc3 on 02 Jun 2007 - 12:49

So let me get this straight...

I download and install Steam on my PC and get 2 free games instantly?

#17.1 InsaneNutter on 03 Jun 2007 - 14:01

Yes, after installing steam go here: http://www.steampowered.com/ati_offer1a/ and click get it now.

(1 reply) #18 dl0711 on 05 Jun 2007 - 17:04

is there a way to save the download of the games and burn the games so that way we dont have to keep redownload them if we ever need to format?

#18.1 Lucas on 05 Jun 2007 - 20:54

Quote - (dl0711 said @ #1

is there a way to save the download of the games and burn the games so that way we dont have to keep redownload them if we ever need to format?

You can make a backup with steam.

#19 PGHammer on 06 Jun 2007 - 09:10

What folks aren't getting is that because of Steam's *per account* (not per-COMPUTER) model, as long as you log on to a particular account, the games on that account *travel with you*. Example: I recently re-logged on to my old (and I mean *ancient* by comparison) Steam account (it was, in fact, my original Steam account back when I got the Platinum Edition of the original Half-Life) on Windows Vista Ultimate. I got all my games back (plus Lost Coast and HL2 DeathMatch, since I have an AIW 9700 Pro in the VU computer). I could (now with that done), build a new PC (with a nVidia SLI setup, for example), install Vista Ultimate, re-download Steam, re-logon (remember, same account that was on the AIW-powered PC) and get *every single game back*, including the two freebies. It's basically Internet-based backups of the games available, and it is utterly hardware-independent (I see no reason it wouldn't work with Windows XP or Vista running on an Intel Mac via BootCamp, by example).

Beats the heck out of shuffling CDs like floppies (HL Platinum takes up six CDs).

#20 kronix2 on 06 Jun 2007 - 22:23

Does anybody want to borrow my old Radeon 7200?

#21 qwerty123098 on 10 Jun 2007 - 16:57

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=JEFN68MW
This links is a download that shows you how to get free games on steam.

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