Half Life 2 refuses to install from my disks.

[Wobblebottom]

I just bought Half Life 2. I am new to pc gaming, but not to owning a pc (I've been using computers since a 486 was fast).

I pop in my HL2 disk, and it pops up all nice like with Gordon Freeman hanging out looking all badass, and I click Install.

It installs Steam, then asks me If I want to install CS and HL2, which I certainly do. I go through the song and dance and then get to the end.

It says, click next to begin installation, so I click next... nothing happens.

Odd I says to myself, so I open the cd itself, and find the HL2 setup file, and proceed to go through the song and dance again, but I am met with similar results.

In short, HL2 will not install from my disks, which are immaculate, and very shiny. Steam however has no problem downloading HL2 and CS for me, all 9 million gigs worth of installation files that are sitting in my disks waiting to be used.

Am I doing something wrong, have I messed up in some way? Why does this wonderful game refuse to install from the disks which I have? I have tried to find answers on the Steam forums, but posting topics is disabled for some reason. I have been trying for a few hours to make this work, and I am growing furious. I just want to kill robots, and aliens, not deal with this whale sized headache. :flame::flame::flame::flame::flame::flame::flame::flame::flame::flame::flame::flame::flame:

 

[Narvi]

Hmmm.

Is the HL2 disk you're using your own copy, the CD key of which you have assigned to your own Steam account, or a friend's?

Also, give us a screenie of the part of the installation where it freezes.

 

[Wobblebottom]

It's a factory copy, my own personal prescious. There is no screen to freeze as it just stops the installation. The window in question is the one after you choose what to install, there is a little button that says next, and when I click that the whole window vanishes and that's it. Nothing more, nothing less. I am currently downloading the installation files to the game I have in front of me which makes me almost livid with anger, but I digress.

 

[Rapstah]

Open up Steam, enter your CD key in Games > Activate a product over Steam and download it that way instead.

 

[kupocake]

Are you sure you've got enough freespace to install both games? I remember that I had trouble installing from disc because the installer didn't bother to check whether the app could fit on, and just ran into a dead-end instead.

 

[Narvi]

Mmm... Freespace...

Yeah, forget HL2. Play Freespace. It's free.

Ahem. More seriously, the setup.exe seems to be crashing for some reason. Do you have any other games? Try installing them and see whether their setup programs work.

 

[okjygfdfdvhu]

Maybe your copy can't work.

 

[Seagull]

If it doesn't work, download them off of Steam overnight as Rapstah posted.