January 9, 2008 - The most recent Steam® Hardware Survey (http://www.steampowered.com/status/survey.html) shows more Steam gamers play on NVIDIA GeForce hardware than any other graphics platform. In an effort to further support this popular PC gaming configuration - Steam games plus NVIDIA hardware - Valve and NVIDIA have entered into an agreement to collaborate on development, distribution, events, and more.
Effective immediately, all NVIDIA gamers may receive a free copy of Portalâ„¢: First Slice, a special version of the award-winning new game from Valve, by visiting www.steamgames.com/nvidia1 and "Taking the test." Steam will then auto-detect the presence of NVIDIA hardware and make Portal: First Slice available immediately, free of charge. To make it easy for all NVIDIA customers to redeem this offer, a link to the Steam offer will also be included in all NVIDIA drivers.
It's the first four levels from the original game.
What is that, about 10 minutes of game time?
Hey mOOzilla, if you had the problem you say you had with steam and valve, why are you even bothering with their free demos?
It's the first four levels from the original game.
I'd been resisting Steam forever, so I thought I might give this a try.
I downloaded and installed Steam, set up an account, and clicked the button to download this demo.
After I accepted an enormous and unread EULA, I was served with an error message that this demo had "already been registered to a different account", or some such nonsense.
I immediately closed and uninstalled Steam. It's crap, just as I suspected.