So get to it people if you want to play when it unlocks.

5780 MB done, 23404.3 to go!

Holy crap, so the game does take up 30gbs, guess I will have to leave my pc on tonight

So it really is that large? Looks like I'm going to have bandwidth overages this month.

Sucks for people without fibre, they won't be playing on time, if they release it at midnight which they usually do.

@goalseil: @Subjugation: Yeah that mofo is huge. I was hoping the files would be heavily compressed during download but they ain't unfortunately. 29GB download.

I pre-ordered the game, but how exactly do I start the pre-load? It just says you already own Max Payne 3.

Available: 1 June 2012

This game will unlock in approximately 11 hours

New to this whole PC thing sooo.

@JacDG: Try launching it and it'll prompt you, if you can yet.

@JacDG: In your game library. If it still appears as Max Payne 3 Pre-Order than just restart Steam and launch the game to start the pre-load.

@Pr1mus said:

@JacDG: In your game library. If it still appears as Max Payne 3 Pre-Order than just restart Steam and launch the game to start the pre-load.

Oooh, that was the problem, thanks. Too late now though, steam servers are apparently too busy, told me to try again in a few hours.

@JacDG: Keep trying or go in the steam settings in the downloads+cloud tab and change the server in download region. Try another server nearby, it sometimes help.

Jeff said it sucks....might as well cancel that pre-load guys.

@Vinny_Says: I just committed 25% of my monthly data transfer cap for this, I WILL LOVE THE GAME NO MATTER WHAT.

I hope.

Fucking 30 gigs maaaan...

I hope it'll download overnight. Internet has been real slow as of late.

@Vinny_Says said:

Jeff said it sucks....might as well cancel that pre-load guys.

The pc version?

@Vinny_Says: He only said he didn't like it all that much, but he said he didn't like MP2 all that much either so his Max Payne opinion isn't something to be really trusted.

ALRIGHT TIME TO PRE-LOAD THIS SUNNOVABI- ...Oh god. Oh god why.

@Pr1mus said:

@JacDG: Keep trying or go in the steam settings in the downloads+cloud tab and change the server in download region. Try another server nearby, it sometimes help.

Didn't work, it's alright though, I'll just download it tomorrow during while I'm at my school for some finals.

aaaaannnndd.... i'm done :D 2h15 minutes.

For once it feels good to have this overpriced connection that gives me enough speed to blow through my monthly data cap in 8h...

2.3mbps, natch. Max Payne 3 in 60 Seconds fo sho.

@Pr1mus said:

aaaaannnndd.... i'm done :D 2h15 minutes.

For once it feels good to have this overpriced connection that gives me enough speed to blow through my monthly data cap in 8h...

You have fibre and a cap? Whadahell?

@AlexW00d said:

@Pr1mus said:

aaaaannnndd.... i'm done :D 2h15 minutes.

For once it feels good to have this overpriced connection that gives me enough speed to blow through my monthly data cap in 8h...

You have fibre and a cap? Whadahell?

Canada man...

@Pr1mus said:

@AlexW00d said:

@Pr1mus said:

aaaaannnndd.... i'm done :D 2h15 minutes.

For once it feels good to have this overpriced connection that gives me enough speed to blow through my monthly data cap in 8h...

You have fibre and a cap? Whadahell?

Canada man...

:(

Ha, my SSD is getting cramped, with Diablo, Witcher 2, and Crysis on here already. I should move some of these over to the HDD...

@TooWalrus: Dude, use the mklink /J command, I can't believe I'd never heard of it until I got an SSD myself (which was three days ago). Many games won't make use of an SSD's speed anyhows.

Hopefully waiting for my physical copy will save me some download time xP

I have been preloading this for three hours.

I am up to 5.5%. >:(

You know I love you guys, but I can't help but laugh at you. 
 
Dying to feel like you're in the future of gaming, you jump on the digital game market train, remove the optical drives from your PCs and kiss discs goodbye, and here we are, games are getting too huge to download from Steam and Origin without having to wait a long time (since only a group of us have fiber and speed-of-light internet) or totally draining the permitted download amount and being capped for the rest of the month (since many people have download limit internet packages). 
All of that for and for $60.  

Whereas I'll be driving to a retail store in the near town and pick up the game for 192 shekels ($51). It will take me 15 minutes to get there and back home, and maybe 5 minutes to have the game fully installed and ready to go.
 
Get your optical drives back guys, the future isn't here yet.

Changed server region and went from 100kb/s to 3.7mb/s. That is acceptable!

New PC launch trailer to mark the occasion while you're waiting:

Well Max Payne 3 is finished decrypting and installing (Only took 27 minutes on an i5-2500k overclocked to 4.2ghz per core with a caviar black )

Game is framelocked at 60 fps.

I'd like to know how this is considering most people thought L.A. Noire's port was crap.

I'd like to know how this is considering most people thought L.A. Noire's port was crap.

@Dany said:

I'd like to know how this is considering most people thought L.A. Noire's port was crap.

Geforce 570, 2 year old i5 and running this on all highest settings at 60 (with some 30, but that might be fmv transitions) at 1920x1200. The only missing setting is FOV, but I think the settings it uses for that is pretty good.

Only ugly thing is the hair on some characters, but hair tech is nex gen!

So how is the shooting?

@xobballox said:

So how is the shooting?

Game defaults to free aim, feels fine right now, still too early to tell. No mouse acceleration that I can see.

Fuck... so I was at 21.4 gigs downloaded then it did the file decryption thing (took about 25 minutes) and I'm back down to 17.6 gigs. WHY STEAM WHY

@xobballox said:

Fuck... so I was at 21.4 gigs downloaded then it did the file decryption thing (took about 25 minutes) and I'm back down to 17.6 gigs. WHY STEAM WHY

Mine shows 29 gigs (29185) on disc.

@mosdl: Yeah, I was going to be able to play a bit before sleeping but now that I somehow magically lost 4.2 gigs I probably won't be able to. :(

Same thing happened to me. At about 5am, unlock time, it started decrypting with only 23GB done. It would have been done by now if the download hadn't just paused. :/

@AhmadMetallic said:

You know I love you guys, but I can't help but laugh at you. Dying to feel like you're in the future of gaming, you jump on the digital game market train, remove the optical drives from your PCs and kiss discs goodbye, and here we are, games are getting too huge to download from Steam and Origin without having to wait a long time (since only a group of us have fiber and speed-of-light internet) or totally draining the permitted download amount and being capped for the rest of the month (since many people have download limit internet packages). All of that for and for $60. Whereas I'll be driving to a retail store in the near town and pick up the game for 192 shekels ($51). It will take me 15 minutes to get there and back home, and maybe 5 minutes to have the game fully installed and ready to go. Get your optical drives back guys, the future isn't here yet.

That was my altitude, but then they (Steam) threw in LA Noire.. I did kind of wanted the box art, buuuuut

DLing now at Steam....

I started downloading yesterday and I'm still only at 42%. This shit's ridik.