No DVD in drive?!

[Skalpel]

Hello all!


I'v had Half life 2 since it came out and it always worked without a problem. A few days back I decided to play it again and when I put the DVD in nothing happened. I've cleaned the DVD tried again and again and nothing. Once it read it after 45 minutes being in the drive. But I've put it out and tried again, thinking it's ok now, and now its dead again. I tried the DVD on other computers and it reads fine... :O

Any ideas? This really sucks... And btw, all my other DVDs work without a glitch...


Help is verrry welcome


by,

Skalpel

 

[joule]

There was an update through Steam years ago. The DVD is no longer needed. You can run HL2 through Steam.

 

[Skalpel]

So this means that I just download the game through Steam? I dont need the DVD anymore?

please explain...

oh, and thanks

 

[giant384]

are you trying to install the game or play it? joule is correct that you no longer need the dvd/cd to play it anymore,just use steam. if the dvd doesnt work then you can only download it through steam. hopefully you remember your account info.

 

[Skalpel]

I am trying to install the game. I put the DVD in and it trys to read it for a while and then nothing. If I try to open the drive on My Computer, it says "please insert... ". It's like nothing is in there...

 

[PimpinPenguin]

If you got a decent internet connection then just download HL2 from steam and play no need for a DVD.You will need to log into your steam account the one you registered your Cd key to.

 

[kacation_man]

ok... well then it sounds like its one of 2 things

1: you dont have a dvd drive ( you said you've tried other dvds in it? if so this is obviously not the case )

2: your dvd drive just sucks and there is no possible way, short of replacing it, that you can do to fix the problem. download half life 2 via steam ( hope you remember your account info ), just do it over night, if you have cable or something, it will take a while even on the fastest speeds because steam likes to be slow and not download at the highest potential. I have tried it once before it took me about 5 hours to do so however i was useing a wireless Ethernet card only capital of 54mbps, which can hold a decent ping, but not great for downloading mass amounts of data.

 

[Skalpel]

My DVD drive is ok, i think. Anyway... Thank you for the quick and kind support.

I'll just download it then..

It still bugs me, why my PC finds it so hard to read the DVD...


thanks again...

cheers

 

[Narvi]

Have you tried other DVDs? I recall this happening to me (well, not with the HL2 DVD but still) right before the thing crapped out and refused to read any DVD at all. If the HL2 DVD works on other drives, you really should think about replacing yours.