Good morning and welcome to the Black Mesa Transit System. This automated train is provided for the security and convenience of employees of the Black Mesa Research Facility personnel. Please feel free to move about the train or simply sit back and enjoy the ride. Black Mesa Transit System Announcer: Good morning, and welcome to the Black Mesa Transit System. This automated train is provided for the security and convenience of the Black Mesa Research Facility personnel. The time is eight-forty seven A.M.
This is a basic article I put together based on what information is published by DiStream, in anticipation that the service(and by extension the article) will become more important as the service's first high-profile game, Prey, launches in a few weeks.
It still needs a lot of work, including better Wikification, a product list, more information on how the service works and its technological underpinnings, and possibly user experience. Please add to it as you can.
ViRGE 00:21, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
Someone needs to put in a refutation that Triton is the only service that can stream games, because it's just not true. I've got a screenshot showing HL2 open in a Window while it's only 59% downloaded on Steam, but I'm not sure how to put images in properly... --AiusEpsi 03:40, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
Just did a test. From running the Steam installer to the G-Man saying 'Rise and shine, Mr. Freeman' took just under 21 minutes, downloading 219.8 MB which is 27% of the full game. HL1 took 1.5 minutes to go from installing it in the Steam menu to hearing 'Welcome to the Black Mesa transit system', downloading 15.9 MB or 14% of the full game. I guess this may count as original research, but I'd imagine the result that you need a lot less than 100% to start either game would be repeatable. --AiusEpsi 04:12, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
'As a result the system has had no real-world testing for high-load situations, and may be a problem with the forthcoming release of Prey.'
Prey is out - does anyone know how Triton fared under the load? LukeyBoy 14:04, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
Shutting Down[edit]
3dRealms has found out that Triton is being shut down without Digital Streams bothering to tell them. Isn't that nice? --ViRGE 19:05, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
- Sources! Forum posts are a-ok if they are by an admin or otherwise official. --Tom Edwards 19:27, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
- http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/737/737827p1.html - It looks like it's gone under. Triton was pretty much a joke, they never had anything like a Half-Life 2 to ram digital distribution down people's throats. Instead of trying to launch their own service, they should have tried to farm out their streaming tech to other digital distribution companies. I don't know whether it's just the Triton service that's died, or the entire DiStream company behind it, it looks like the latter. - Hahnchen 01:13, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
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