We have now added a review of Half-Life 2 on the site, written by our very own
Chris_D. The review goes into detail from the final hours until the release and contains
reactions throughout the game, screenshots, comments from other Halflife2.net staff and
more. You can find the review here.
G4TechTV is airing a 30 minute long program with interviews with Gabe Newell and a few other VALVe employees, the program will also delve into the story behind Half-Life and Half-Life 2 on Tuesday, November 16th. You can read the full story and find a teaser of the interview here. Note that the...
This thread really isn't necessary.
KBharvester, if you have proof of this statement, please pm a moderator about it, but until then this thread will remain closed (it will remain closed if the 'proof' turns out to be fake though).
Closed.
Try checking in the settings of the game (video options), check if it's set to Software, and if it is change it to OpenGL, Software mode tends to lag a lot.
Just make a file called plugins.ini, add the text
'win32 addons\amx\dlls\amx_mm.dll'
(without the quotes) and then place it in the addons\metamod directory.
I'll explain breafly what this whole account 'hijacking'/spoiler posting thing is about, you might get linked to a hl2 trivia on IRC or here on the forums, DO NOT click it, as it is a site that uses the cookies from this forum and creates a new thread containing spoilers from Half-Life 2.
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Try deleting the file clientregistry.blob and restart Steam. If that doesn't work try what Epsi said or remove Steam completely and just install it using the 700kb installer.