GameShadow
Posted: June 12th, 2006, 18:10
GameShadow is now free. I have been using it for 18 months, not entirely without incident, but for anything except BeeF it works well enough. I paid for a year, then won a competition for another year free.
It scans your disk for games and checks for patches and additional content available - game data is server side, so it's updated faster than XFire. It can crash if it's not the only program aggresively accessing the internet when doing its initial check. It's pretty up to date and uses it's own mirrors for major patches. Don't run it in the system tray, though.
Overall it's been pretty useful, and easier than finding out what the "latest" patch it, particularly for older games. Do BeeF manually and let Steam and the MMONGS do their own thing and it's a good enough tool.
It scans your disk for games and checks for patches and additional content available - game data is server side, so it's updated faster than XFire. It can crash if it's not the only program aggresively accessing the internet when doing its initial check. It's pretty up to date and uses it's own mirrors for major patches. Don't run it in the system tray, though.
Overall it's been pretty useful, and easier than finding out what the "latest" patch it, particularly for older games. Do BeeF manually and let Steam and the MMONGS do their own thing and it's a good enough tool.