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| Thread ID: 51243 | 2004-11-15 11:49:00 | OT: Halflife 2 - have you got yours sorted? | chiefnz (545) | Press F1 |
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| 292585 | 2004-11-19 06:56:00 | I dont know about the activation, but it should play fine on dial up. CS is another kettle of fish altogeather |
Shaun Minfie (2961) | ||
| 292586 | 2004-11-19 08:53:00 | It might be a bit annoying with dialup... First you will need to authenticate/register it after install and setup a Steam account, unlock the data files using Steam, download patches/updates and then each time you play you will have to connect to the internet AFAIK - I think this is for on-the-fly updating. Steam is very clunky to get up and running (or maybe the servers were overloaded on release day) and many people are having issues with the Steam games (HL2, CS:Source and HL:Source). I myself have an interesting bug with the Steam games - I cannot run at a full screen resolution lower than 1152x864 - trying to set this results in a "cannot set video mode error message" - the games continue to try different resolutions with the same error resulting in the game running in a 640x480 windowed mode. This problem does not occur at resolutions higher than 1024x768 though... interesting. |
HadO (796) | ||
| 292587 | 2004-11-21 01:41:00 | I just bought Half Life 2 yesterday. Grpahics are surreal, and the complexity of the game is marvellous. I life the fact you can almost pick anything up and use it. I've obnly just started the game, so its pretty easy at the moment playing in easy mode on the first level. Am not aiming to clock it in so many hours. Take my time and enjoy the scenery and gameplay. Mister Harbies |
mister harbies (5607) | ||
| 292588 | 2004-11-21 03:57:00 | brought the game @ shop (DVD edition) gone home to "activate" via Steam only discover that my cd-key is "already register and cannot be used on Steam". great now according to their tech support, send an email to them with photographs of the actual dvd, case and receipt to "know" that its a retail copy... great.. that my HL2 Experiences ruined |
robert_m_r_w (3943) | ||
| 292589 | 2004-11-21 04:59:00 | > brought the game @ shop (DVD edition) > gone home to "activate" via Steam only discover that > my cd-key is "already register and cannot be used on > Steam". great > now according to their tech support, send an email to > them with photographs of the actual dvd, case and > receipt to "know" that its a retail copy... > great.. > that my HL2 Experiences ruined I would take it back to the shop and ask for another copy. Maybe they used it for a demo and used the key then. Was it open or resealed when you got it? Anyway it is faulty goods and should be returned for resupply to the vendor. |
Big John (551) | ||
| 292590 | 2004-11-21 07:43:00 | it was the last copy... and i have request for a new key via email.. |
robert_m_r_w (3943) | ||
| 292591 | 2004-11-21 11:46:00 | I bought mine yesterday. $84.90 at DSE with free half-life 2 t-shirt! :D Pretty awesome game so far. | alphazulusixeightniner (185) | ||
| 292592 | 2004-11-21 11:57:00 | It look pretty good so far :) Took about half an hour to install and activate with most time spent decrypting files in the activation process, and using jetsteam. BTW this was with collectors edition. |
Raikyn (6293) | ||
| 292593 | 2004-11-21 18:53:00 | Alpha, you got a free tee-shirt? Why didn't I? I bought mine from DSE too. Did you ask for it or do you think they made a mistake? Mister Harbies |
mister harbies (5607) | ||
| 292594 | 2004-11-22 00:26:00 | I got the TShirt with the collector's edition - nothing special just black with white logo on the front... It's quite undercover - only those in the know will know ;) |
HadO (796) | ||
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