how long does steam take to "decrypt steam files?"

[Sheikah42]

i formatted, and just reinstalled everything. now i'm trying to play half-life 2, and it's been saying "decrypting steam files" and it has stayed at 20% over the past hour. i closed steam and reopened and tried again, and it's still at 20%. does it normally take this long?

if so, then steam sucks

 

[giant384]

takes me 30min to decrypt try reinstalling again

 

[Sheikah42]

noooo not all 5 cd's

 

[giant384]

yes i no that lol u decrypt the hl2 files on ur computer and it only takes me 30min lol y would u think i was talking about decrypting from cds just take all of the hl2 stuff out and reinstall

 

[Sheikah42]

its fine it finally decrypted after awhile

 

[FictiousWill]

The decryption took about 2 mins for me. Installing took a while though. Are you sure you don't mean that? I did it all through steam - but I don't think that makes a difference.

 

[Sheikah42]

yeah after i installed the 5 cd's when i double click halflife 2 under my steam menu it said decrypting half-life 2.

counter-strike took about 2 mins but hl2 took forever

 

[SUPERNOVA]

thats strange, my hl2 was fine in decryption but cs took about a hour

 

[giant384]

lol how did css take u an hr its smaller like 3 gbs smaller