Furious regarding HL2 Installation

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I just bought HL2 to find that I have to have an internet connection to play the sumnabitch. Is there any way around having to install steam and such, I don't have an internet connection on my gaming comp and just want to enjoy the single player aspects of the game. Can anyone help me out? Is there any way around having to connect to the internet and the installation of the game?
 
Very much willing to go through illegal means to play the game I purchased legally with my money. Frustrated that Valve would allow those without an active internet connection to play a single player game....
 
This website frowns upon those who use illegal means to run the game. So you aren't gonna find any help here. You should have read the requirements on the back of the box before you bought the game.
 
The back of the box said nothing about a required internet connection nor did the website that I checked to make sure I made the minimum requirements just before getting the game. Generally I frown upon using illegal means to play a game as well, thats why I just payed 30 bucks for it.
 
Not on mine, it only states the technical requirements (Direct X 7 compatible video card, Ram, Processor speed, etc.) If the community at large disagrees with using illegal means I can understand that however I feel no guilt for using illegal means to play something I just payed thirty bucks for. If there is any way around the internet BS that isn't illegal I'd like to know as well, or atleast a method that doesn't involve downloading cracks and whatnot, someway to skip directly to the installation of the game from the DVD rather then installing steam first.
 
If there is a way around it, I don't know about it. You can try looking on other forums.
 
any forums you could suggest? Or I would prefer more so if there were some way that I could authorize my purchase with steam without the internet. Maybe mail them a reciept and a blood and semen sample and a copy of the game I bought and they could mail me a version that would just install on my comp... :(

I do have internet access, just not on the comp I plan on running the game on, is it at all possible to somehow authorize the game on one computer and install it on another. (right now my internet access is limited to a laptop Im currently typing on, does the authorization process somehow alter the disc itself or would I not be able to use a diff. comp to authorize with steam and have it install on my gaming comp.)
 
It's strange that your box doesn't have the warning on it...where'd you get it?

Anyway, the way I would do it is:

Take your gaming PC and connect it to the internet (I assume you have a connection somewhere at your place, if not then use a friend's...or ignore all this)

While connected, install the game normally, installing steam, updating, etc.

Once all the games you want are fully updated and playable, disconnect the computer from the net and then start steam. It should pause for a minute and then give you the option to start in "offline mode."

Test your games in offline mode and if everything works, take your gaming PC back to where it was and you should be able to play through HL2 in offline mode. I think you can play CSS with bots in offline mode too.

Sometimes offline mode will randomly screw up and you'll have to connect to the net again to fix it, just so you know...


Edit: You have a laptop connected wirelessly then? crap...um there may be a way to install it on your laptop, and then copy the needed files onto a dvd and take it to your gaming PC, but I don't know much about doing that. Maybe someone else here will explain how.
Actually I think there were one or two threads just like this and the copy-to-dvd method was explained...I will search for them.
 
Thank you Naudian, That was the first constructive post I've recieved. BTW I purchased the game at Gamestop and thought the packaging odd since it wasn't in a box or anything but a sticker on the box read new so I didn't ask questions. I'll try and see if I can't get my gaming PC onto some internet connection and do what you suggested, any other suggestions wouldn't hurt however, thanks.
 
Edit: You have a laptop connected wirelessly then? crap...um there may be a way to install it on your laptop, and then copy the needed files onto a dvd and take it to your gaming PC, but I don't know much about doing that. Maybe someone else here will explain how.
Actually I think there were one or two threads just like this and the copy-to-dvd method was explained...I will search for them.

That sounds like the perfect solution to my problem, if you find those threads I'd definately appreciate it, HL2 looks like such an awesome game and I'd love to start gettin into it.
 
http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showpost.php?p=2207952&postcount=5

This post might be of some help.

It seems you could install it on your laptop, start Steam in offline mode (after disconnecting the laptop), copy the entire install folder onto DVD(s), and copy that to your gaming PC.

I've never done this and can't guarantee that it will work...seems kinda iffy to me :\

Anyway, glad I could help a bit :thumbs:
 
Thanks so much Naudian, I'll let you know how it works out.
 
So you want us to believe that Valve / EA / whoever published your particular version of the game made a special one-of-a-kind box just for you, without the internet requirement written on it? The ONLY one in the world? I say get better eyes, and admit to your laziness of not checking.

If it REALLY didn't say it on the box (which we know it DOES, but let's just play along with you for a minute) you could then take the game back as it did not list all of the requirements, and you do not meet them.

Saying you are more than happy to go illegal on a game you "paid" for not only makes me suspicious, but is a stupid thing to say to a community of people that have paid for their games, play by the rules, and the site is supported by the very people who made the game (and Steam) that you are asking for help cracking. Good one.
 
Naudian, I managed to install the game on the laptop I got and Im tryin to transfer the files to a dvd so I can play it on my gaming comp but all the cgf files, which seem to be the biggest ones won't record to a disc. while trying to copy them windows tells me it had difficulty doing so giving me the option to skip or try again blah blah blah, Do I need to get a program to burn the files to a dvd or is it possible to do this with windows explorer.

Shasta you sound like a douche and your not helping. When I purchased the game at Game Stop It wasn't even in a box it was in a case with PC DVD around the top. I thought it seemed suspicous when I bought it but it had the word NEW printed on the sticker and they have a no return policy on PC games. If this site is supported by steam have one of them get their bitch asses on here and tell me how to get the game I just payed for and registered online to transfer over to my non internet accesible gaming comp.
 
Don't mind Shasta :P

Do you mean the .gcf files? They're the ones that store most of the game content.

The only thing I can think of is that you have Steam running while trying to copy them, make sure it's closed. Otherwise I don't know why windows wouldn't copy them...

btw are you using Vista or XP?
 
XP and I did have steam running, thanks.

Im having trouble putting Steam in offline mode, the support intructions seemed simple enough but the last step tells me to restart steam and select the start in offline mode option, I fail to see this.
 
Ugh. The laptop isn't able to burn onto dvd's, Is it possible to break the files up and record them to several CD-R's to transfer them to my gaming PC? (I wish Valve had never signed up with the headache inducing online BS of Steam)

--- Most the GCF files are too large to put on a CD-R, Im considering purchasing an external HD to transfer the game to so I can get it running on my gaming PC.... almost wish I'd picked HL2 up for a console though the reason I picked the game was so I could get some replayability with mods..---
 
The internet requirement thing is found on the bottom of the box along with the requirements. Well, on my box atleast. So I guess a lesson is learned here!

*Leaves, attributing absolutely nothing to this thread*
 
Damn, you really need that desktop connected to the net...

Last two things I can think of are buying a wireless PCI card, or bringing the PC to a friend's place to connect it there...
 
If you're absolutely sure that the system requirement's did not include an internet connection I'm sure you'll be able to return the game, regardless of the no return policy.

Legal way - As Naudian said carry your PC over to someplace with a internet connection...

Illegal way - Use Google!! But I reckon you'll need to download something or the other...
 
Shasta you sound like a douche and your not helping. When I purchased the game at Game Stop It wasn't even in a box it was in a case with PC DVD around the top. I thought it seemed suspicous when I bought it but it had the word NEW printed on the sticker and they have a no return policy on PC games. If this site is supported by steam have one of them get their bitch asses on here and tell me how to get the game I just payed for and registered online to transfer over to my non internet accesible gaming comp.
If it's such a problem, and they HAD sold it to you in a plain case (although what kind of idiot buys a game in a plain case with a "NEW!" sticker on it from a store?) then you could have JUST RETURNED IT. However, now that you have registered the key to an account, that would be difficult. Nice job of screwing yourself over.

However, if you were sold the game in ANY type of official Half-Life2 packaging, then IT DOES SAY "INTERNET CONNECTION REQUIRED". You're just an idiot for not looking properly, and you don't want to admit that.

Trying to "tough-talk" forum members into giving up their spare time to help solve your problem caused by your own stupidity, just because you couldn't read the game requirements BEFORE you bought it won't get you help any faster. These people are here only because they like the game, and are NOT official tech support for anything except excessive acne. If you are having a problem with Steam, go ask for help on the OFFICIAL STEAM SUPPORT FORUMS dumbass. Go have your little self-caused tantrum over there, and see how far you get.
 
It wouldn't be worth the trouble, from what I've heard. :rolleyes:
Well it would have a better chance than complaining to a bunch of (mostly kid) gamers that DON'T work there.

Although really, what is his actual complaint? It's that Steam is working as it should - ie it needs to go online to install HL2. How do you complain to Steam that their product is working as designed? It says it on the case / box. He should complain to his parents for not teaching him to read properly, or take some responsibility for himself.
 
Shasta, chill... somehow the tread posters box didn't have the official cover (although I have no idea how that could happen). If... thats the case then he has a right to complain... not against steam, but against the retailer. I can understand his frustration.

And Shasta, maintaining your antagonizing and impatient attitude here is fine, but I hope you dont take the same attitude with your six year old. I really do.
 
Shasta, chill... somehow the tread posters box didn't have the official cover (although I have no idea how that could happen). If... thats the case then he has a right to complain... not against steam, but against the retailer. I can understand his frustration.
It's not the case at all.

There are three possibilities.

1 - He brought the game from a store where they had taken the disk(s) OUT of the official packaging, and put them in another case, got a pen and sticker, and wrote "HL2 NEW! lol" on it. In which case anyone stupid enough to by something like that should count themselves lucky that it even contained a working version of the game at all.

2 - He actually DID get the game in some form of official packaging. In which case it DEFINITELY has the "net required" part on it. For some reason he wants us to believe that he is in possession of the ONLY packaging in the WORLD for HL2 that the "net required" note mysteriously was left out.

Both of these would be solved by returning it to the store, as it would have breached consumer rights by not displaying blah blah blah. But he HASN'T returned it - and can't return it, because:

3 - He is full of sh*t, didn't read the requirements properly or at all, and now is trying to blame everyone but himself for his mistake.

Case closed, suck it up, and read things BEFORE buying from now on.
 
Dude, is it physically painful for you not to be polite to other people?

Thread Poster, if you were going to play with mods weren't you going to, I don't know, download the mods?
 
Shasta - there's a fourth suggestion;
The "NEW HL2 LOL" sticker was over the "Internet Connection Required" text on the original box, so now he's ashamed and blaming everyone else.

EDIT: I don't see such a requirement on my Holiday Box, though. It only says you need internet for more than one player.
 
It'll be interesting to see the tread posters box cover...So Inso take a pic of your box and post it here.

Doesn't valve require any retailer to sell their games in the Original cover? Or does the retailers have the power to sell the games in any cover they want? It the least they should get the System reqs right! Valve should sue their ass!!
 
... almost wish I'd picked HL2 up for a console though the reason I picked the game was so I could get some replayability with mods..---

...and you were going to download these mods, right?
 
Much has been written after I left the forum to play HL2 on the laptop. Shasta, you should place some of that frightning devotion you have towards the disconfirmation of others towards more beneficial endevours like shooting yourself in the head. You've posted nothing here but childish rants trying to prove that my purchase did not have the minimum requirements on the box. I've come to the realization that the retailer I bought the game from (Local Gamestop, whom I've watched go on a downward spiral lately...) sold me a copy that likely had been used as it wasn't in a "box" but simply the plastic casing containing one dvd. I've raped the case with my eyes for your pleasure to find not any requirements listed, Im assuming they were on the box from which the case was removed and then sold. I don't care about that however, it wasn't a question of my intelligence, I have the game running now thanks to the aid of some of the more helpful members here.

For those interested the best I could do is describe the packaging which Im assuming was the case located inside the "proper" box that has the minimum requirements listed on the bottom right-hand corner like any other PC game, of which I've purchased many. I'd elaborate but frankly I don't care enough now that I have the game running.

To the member who questioned me about mods, obviously I have a connection to the internet on this laptop or else I couldn't ****ing post in a forum. I would have planned on downloading the mods stickin em on a disc and putting them on my gaming computer, however it seems Im just going to have to play the game on this laptop until I can get some internet connectivity going on my gaming comp. I appreciate the help I've recieved from some members and frown on upon with pity how some of them have little better to do then cup steam's balls and suck. I feel strongly that a single-player experience should not require internet connectivity. I possess only a stronger animosity towards the retards who couldn't wait for the release of HL2 and had to hack some source code causing valve to go to such measures to protect against piracy.
 
Much has been written after I left the forum to play HL2 on the laptop. Shasta, you should place some of that frightning devotion you have towards the disconfirmation of others towards more beneficial endevours like shooting yourself in the head. You've posted nothing here but childish rants trying to prove that my purchase did not have the minimum requirements on the box. I've come to the realization that the retailer I bought the game from (Local Gamestop, whom I've watched go on a downward spiral lately...) sold me a copy that likely had been used as it wasn't in a "box" but simply the plastic casing containing one dvd. I've raped the case with my eyes for your pleasure to find not any requirements listed, Im assuming they were on the box from which the case was removed and then sold. I don't care about that however, it wasn't a question of my intelligence, I have the game running now thanks to the aid of some of the more helpful members here.

For those interested the best I could do is describe the packaging which Im assuming was the case located inside the "proper" box that has the minimum requirements listed on the bottom right-hand corner like any other PC game, of which I've purchased many. I'd elaborate but frankly I don't care enough now that I have the game running.

To the member who questioned me about mods, obviously I have a connection to the internet on this laptop or else I couldn't ****ing post in a forum. I would have planned on downloading the mods stickin em on a disc and putting them on my gaming computer, however it seems Im just going to have to play the game on this laptop until I can get some internet connectivity going on my gaming comp. I appreciate the help I've recieved from some members and frown on upon with pity how some of them have little better to do then cup steam's balls and suck. I feel strongly that a single-player experience should not require internet connectivity. I possess only a stronger animosity towards the retards who couldn't wait for the release of HL2 and had to hack some source code causing valve to go to such measures to protect against piracy.

EVERY game MUST have requirements on them, for sales laws. You know that. I know that. You now say you have NONE on your packaging. That missing block of info ALONE would make it look strange, BUT you STILL bought it. You could have returned it, but you DIDN'T. Cry me a river. You had options. "zomg i need internet?! it doesn't say that on the case! (actually, it doesn't have ANY requirements on the case. why did i buy a game in a dodgey looking case?) i don't have a connection. i'll take it back and complain!!11". Easy.

I'd hate to see you buying a car. A lot of them have a "NEW!" sticker on them. Would you be able to resist? EVEN if a door was falling off, and the car was rusting? I can see it now - "but it had a 'NEW!' sticker on it!!"
 
InsomniacMG said:
I possess only a stronger animosity towards the retards who couldn't wait for the release of HL2 and had to hack some source code causing valve to go to such measures to protect against piracy.
Nah, Steam already required you to register online even before that source code leak. It is indeed a way to protect the games from piracy, and it works reasonably well. Last time I checked, cracked steam clients couldn't play on VAC2 secured servers.
 
To the member who questioned me about mods, obviously I have a connection to the internet on this laptop or else I couldn't ****ing post in a forum. I would have planned on downloading the mods stickin em on a disc and putting them on my gaming computer, however it seems Im just going to have to play the game on this laptop until I can get some internet connectivity going on my gaming comp. I appreciate the help I've recieved from some members and frown on upon with pity how some of them have little better to do then cup steam's balls and suck. I feel strongly that a single-player experience should not require internet connectivity. I possess only a stronger animosity towards the retards who couldn't wait for the release of HL2 and had to hack some source code causing valve to go to such measures to protect against piracy.

I'm sorry, but we're not cupping Steam's balls and sucking. Any other way around it is illegal; we're not going to do that. Valve is not going to change their single-player model just for one person, or a tiny minority; the amount of people pissed over this is mainly a) the Pirates and b) the people who don't read the labels. In the media for more than a year before hand has been alot of bru-hah-hah about Steam and Half-Life 2 and how they require the internets. I'm pretty sure that Naudian's suggestion should work and get you going.

Out of interest, why do you not have the internets on your desktop? Virus-fraid?

/EDIT By the way, if the game had previously been used, your Steam account shouldn't work with the CD Key on the games.
 
After reading the entire thread, I wish I could see a photo both front and back of this box which you bought.
 
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