Yea, well to address some of your speculations - Yes my computer is decent enough to run both games fairly well, it isn't amazing but definitely sufficient. Also I try to keep it as clean as possible, and I had just reformatted like a month or 2 ago so its pretty fresh.
It takes long to load...
I just recently reinstalled HL and CS:S, and I've got them to work but there's one huge, weird problem with Source. When I load it from my desktop it takes super long to load the game, sometimes exceeding 5 minutes even. It never used to take that long back in the day, and I don't know if its...
Welllll.....I finally found what the problem was. Last time I played was so long ago that I actually had a different account at that point, which I forgot, and all this time I've been trying to access it with a new account I've made since then. Thank the lord I finally figured it out, though...
Well, after switching the directory I got this message upon trying to load HL....
"Fatal Error: Failed to load platform modules"
And it still won't load the games.
well, I finally got home and was able to try the suggestion of entering the product key in steam, and it's still giving me a problem. When I put the code in it says hit next to register, and when I do a message comes up saying -
"Installation of Half-Life 2 Retail Standard is required before...
Ey, I'm new to the forums but I have been having a problem installing my old Half Life 2 back to my comp. I bought HL2 when it came out and installed it fine then. I've wiped the drive a few times since, and I got a hankering to replay it. Now that I try to reinstall on the same system year...