Installation problems with UK Retail DVD Please help??

[robjones23]

Hi guys n Gals,

I bought the UK retail copy of the game today and it refuses to get past the "Setup has determined that you have directx version 9.0a or greater and will not try to update it"

When I click next here nothing happens. Also, and something which may be related to the problem is that I cannot change the destination folder a couple of screens back.

It's trying to install to the C: drive which has 1GB free (I want it to install to to E: which has 17GB free and is a fresh partition but there's no option to change the installation path).

PC is:

Athlon 3200
1GB DDR 333 PC 2700 RAM
Approx 60GB HDD space in total

I am running the installation off a Sony Dual Layer DVD writer / reader but I don't think this is the reason it's not working - all other DVD's work fine.

Software is Windows XP SP1.

Any help or at least a pointer to change the destination folder to see if that's the issue would be great.

cheers,

Rob.

 

[FISKER_Q]

Try checking the DVD if it has the .gcf files, then get steam from www.steampowered.com

Install it, copy over the .gcf files from your dvd-drive to e:\Program Files\Valve\Steam\SteamApps\ (Or where you decide to install it).

Then open steam and use the "Browse Game" option and then the "Register a game you already own" and then put in your cd-key.

Afterwards restart steam and start half-life 2.

 

[alfmouse]

That would probably work. If not, check this thread out for what I did to fix it...

http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=51412

 

[alfmouse]

Forgot to mention in that thread that once I'd uninstalled steam, it would then let me choose where to install it the next time I ran setup (makes sense it wouldn't do this before, since I had already installed steam and the steamapps folder was already in place.)

But before doing the uninstall thing, just try registering the steam preload you've already got using your dvd key, don't even bother installing from dvd, it will probably work just fine.

 

[robjones23]

Working after I un-installed Steam and re-installed it to the E: drive - I guess it was a problem with the Installation trying to go to the drive without enough space.

 

[FISKER_Q]

Working after I un-installed Steam and re-installed it to the E: drive - I guess it was a problem with the Installation trying to go to the drive without enough space.

it's because of the installation method.

It reads from the registry that steam is already installed at another location, and by running an unattended install it just chooses the path from the registry.