Steam Half Life 2 download

andywolli · Apr 20, 2004

Hi,
I bought a radeon 9800XT this month with half life 2 .
When its realeased i get a copy of the full programm!
You can get a free copy on cd roms or you can download a full version with the steam programm! I live in Germany when i will order Half Life 2 on Cd then i have to wait over 6 weeks till i get it! Its to long! Here my question! :O
I will download it with steam! But i when i download it I have it only on hard disk
i want to burn it on cd/dvd ! Is this possible or will i lost the programm when i deinstall it from my harddrive!

Thanxx

Wolli

zdub · Apr 20, 2004

no you wont be able to burn it i dont think, however you can redownload it onto other computers and play there with your unique login and ID number

marksmanHL2 :) · Apr 20, 2004

I am not totally sure but I think you will be able to put the cach on CD so you can move it from commputer to computer. So yes. I think....

Also, I think Valve are planning a world wide release anyway. Just so you know.

EVIL · Apr 20, 2004

you could e-mail valve about this

Shuzer · Apr 20, 2004

marksman has the right idea. You can burn the GCF cache files to a disc and put them on other systems. You'd still have to log on and update HL2, but it'd work. Better than having to DLing the entire file off Steam on every different machine

PvtRyan · Apr 20, 2004

There was once an email sent to Valve by someone who had fast internet at work and slow internet at home. He asked if it was possible to download HL2 @ work and burn the cache files and install it at home. And it was possible.

daveodeth · Apr 20, 2004

nice, though i think i'll still go for the hard copy.

lemmingzappa · Apr 20, 2004

?

Ive got a question here ( you may think it sounds stupid lol ), when half life 2 is released on steam, will you have to enter a half life 2 cd-key to download it, or will you pay for it on steam, or will current steam users get it for free......sorry if that sounded dumb.

marksmanHL2 :) · Apr 20, 2004

If you want to buy HL2 you have serveral choices:

1. Buy it from the store and install and play.

2. Download it from steam to your hard disk. You can then purchase a Cd-Key through steam in order to activate the game. You need a CD key to start to play the downloaded game.

3. Pay monthly for all valve games includeing Halflife2. But don't worry, this is not, I repeat NOT the traditional pay to play scheme and it is NOT required. Its just an option.

figge · Apr 20, 2004

lemmingzappa said:
Ive got a question here ( you may think it sounds stupid lol ), when half life 2 is released on steam, will you have to enter a half life 2 cd-key to download it, or will you pay for it on steam, or will current steam users get it for free......sorry if that sounded dumb.

There are no stupid questions... just stupid people asking them :naughty:

Anyway, it think Hl2 on steam will be as CS:CZ on steam... :smoking:

lemmingzappa · Apr 20, 2004

Download it from steam to your hard disk. You can then purchase a Cd-Key through steam in order to activate the game. You need a CD key to start to play the downloaded game.

Can you buy half life 2 from a shop, and then use the cd-key you got from that, and use that cd-key on steam ?

marksmanHL2 :) · Apr 20, 2004

Very probably.

figge · Apr 20, 2004

lemmingzappa said:
Can you buy half life 2 from a shop, and then use the cd-key you got from that, and use that cd-key on steam ?

Maby there will be 2 diffrent type of keys?
or maby not...

We will have to wait and see

Epsi · Apr 20, 2004

Personally, I think if Valve have any sense they'll restrict the pre-loading of HL2 to pre-orderers only, or at the very, very least split the game over multiple caches and preload some to everyone who wants it, and everything to those who pre-order. It's going to be a lot of data to send out.

Anyways, Steam will let you play HL2 as long as you can prove in some way that you have a right to be playing it, be that HL2 CD-Key from a retail purchase, a direct purchase over Steam, or a monthly subscription fee.

lemmingzappa · Apr 20, 2004

I read in the valve question column, that steam users will be able to download a locked version of the full game a few weeks before it is released in the shops, to prevent bandwidth traffic.

Epsi · Apr 20, 2004

Even so, it's going to amount to an astounding volume of traffic if Valve allows it to be a free-for-all.

It would make more business sense for Valve to restrict the pre-load to pre-orders.

Wilco · Apr 20, 2004

Yeah, but even then theres going to be LOTS of Downloads going on at the same time

Varsity · Apr 20, 2004

HL2 won't fit on a CD, so that's that out of the question unless you have some way to split/rejoin .GCF files.

Wilco · Apr 20, 2004

or a DVD burner

Varsity · Apr 20, 2004

DVD burners don't increase the capacity of CDs.

lemmingzappa · Apr 20, 2004

no they use 4.7 gb discs..........

Ahnteis · Apr 20, 2004

Ive got a question here ( you may think it sounds stupid lol ), when half life 2 is released on steam, will you have to enter a half life 2 cd-key to download it, or will you pay for it on steam, or will current steam users get it for free......sorry if that sounded dumb.

No - steam is a platform, not a game. You will have to pay for the games. Steam itself is free.

Gossoon · Apr 20, 2004

If they're going to restrict pre-loading somehow, then ATI coupon holders should be among those able to download in advance too. Our copies were bought and paid for seven months ago! Damnit.

Varsity · Apr 20, 2004

lemmingzappa said:
no they use 4.7 gb discs..........

Oh right, I thought Wilco was talking about using CDs (my subject) in a DVD Burner (his subject).

Wilco · Apr 20, 2004

no I meant Using DVDs

A little confusion there.

Pitbul · Apr 20, 2004

Gossoon said:
If they're going to restrict pre-loading somehow, then ATI coupon holders should be among those able to download in advance too. Our copies were bought and paid for seven months ago! Damnit.

I agree! :frown:

Epsi · Apr 21, 2004

I'll rephrase then... restrict pre-loading only to people who in some way already deserve to play HL2.

I.E. ATi key holders, pre-orderers, and monthly subscribers (if that service opens before the release of HL2).

And I'd imagine that HL2 would be split across multiple cache files, Steam can re-consitute a whole bunch of caches into one logical one for the game to access. For example, already Counter-Strike, as well as having its own GCF, loads content from the HL, and HL Engine GCFs.

blahblahblah · Apr 21, 2004

I thought people where able to hack in to the GCF files.

Epsi · Apr 21, 2004

They encrypt the preloads. Any files you extract would just be gibberish.

Naft · Apr 21, 2004

HL2 won't fit on a CD, so that's that out of the question unless you have some way to split/rejoin .GCF files.

you could zip up the gcf file into several .rar's and put them on cds

If they're going to restrict pre-loading somehow, then ATI coupon holders should be among those able to download in advance too. Our copies were bought and paid for seven months ago! Damnit.

the ATI coupon probably has some key-code or something on it? something you could type in and that would count as a pre-order, so you could start preloading.

staddydaddy · Apr 21, 2004

you can burn it you just have to log in if it is installed on another computer.

Reven · Apr 21, 2004

staddydaddy said:
you can burn it you just have to log in if it is installed on another computer.

Well, you can, if you have a DVD burner.

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