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The Official Half Life 2 Thread (pg. 6)
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| Ding Chavez |
| quote: | Originally posted by dj chex
BTW, does anybody know if you ALWAYS have to connect to Steam to play this game. I kinda wanna install it on my notebook for times when im out of the house. |
There is an option "Offline Mode" if you have unlocked the game files. I think you have to set steam to remember your password first, but then you can just play it without connecting steam to the internet. Remember that you do have to connect your laptop to the internet to unlock the game files there after you installed it (using the same steam account name of course).
| quote: | Originally posted by Nou
I was wondering this too, also does it have to verify the files EVERYTIME IT STARTS!!!! |
Steam only has to verify the files the very first time you start up half-life 2. Then your cd-key is coupled to your steam account and there is no need to verify the files again. |
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| sleepydragon |
| quote: | Originally posted by dj chex
BTW, does anybody know if you ALWAYS have to connect to Steam to play this game. I kinda wanna install it on my notebook for times when im out of the house. |
u only have to connect once just to unlock the game after that its a offline game |
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| MiB |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ding Chavez
There is an option "Offline Mode" if you have unlocked the game files. I think you have to set steam to remember your password first, but then you can just play it without connecting steam to the internet. Remember that you do have to connect your laptop to the internet to unlock the game files there after you installed it (using the same steam account name of course).
Steam only has to verify the files the very first time you start up half-life 2. Then your cd-key is coupled to your steam account and there is no need to verify the files again. |
online mode for 2 weeks then that u said is gonna work what ive heard..
great game though.. |
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| Ajay |
| the game is awsome, graphics are insane! :eyespop: |
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| Linx_da_cat |
| quote: | Originally posted by stren
me probably january, so please don't spoil our fun
BTW..what about those ppl who don't have the internet? they can't even install the game?? a true revolution that Steam is :whip: |
unfortunately yes, those without internet can't play. not the best solution to prevent hacking/leaking... |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
I've got a P4 3.0 Ghz with 512RAM and a Radeon X300 card - would this game even play on my system? :conf:
I really don't know how well it would perform...I know KotOR plays great on my compy, but is HL2 a huge leap up in graphics?
I didn't even know it came out today until I checked this forum. :p Been looking forward to this for years, but sorta lost interest when they kept pushing the date back. :(
Unfortunately, I have about $100 to my name...all this time to play computer games, but no job to (safely) pay for em...Oh well. :happy2: |
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| nrjizer |
Definately. I have a 1.4 ghz thunderbird, 512 ram and a Geforce3, and it runs pretty good on medium settings.
And I should have a 9800 pro and 3000+ barton any minute now, if ing fedex will get here. |
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| sleepydragon |
| quote: | Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On
I've got a P4 3.0 Ghz with 512RAM and a Radeon X300 card - would this game even play on my system? :conf:
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the games not really that powerful for specs a fairly average machine can run this game |
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| sleepydragon |
| quote: | Originally posted by MiB
online mode for 2 weeks then that u said is gonna work what ive heard..
great game though.. |
wrong ive already said that once uve connected unlocked the files and the cd key is registered it is offline straight away.
i dont know where u heard about that 2 weeks from |
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| Geoff |
| are any of u guys playin CS Source? |
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| Philby |
ive downloaded some of the videos off gamepost and it looks great! we haven't had a good enough computer to play any of the latest games from last couple of years so don't know when i will be able to play it but it definitely looks good :)
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umm sorry but what the hell is this steam thing everyone is talking about? |
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| mister ben |
| it was called WON and it was only used for cdkey authentication. |
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