-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 28 March 2008 12:05:49 pm Mark Knecht wrote: > I'm wondering if anyone has any experience loading Half Life using old > HL CDs instead of Steam. I have two old CDs - one form 1998 and one > from 2000. I tried installing from the 2000 CD and it installed OK but > when I tried to do the update from within the game it complained about > lack of Internet access. When I start the game I get a black screen > before the menu, and when I choose the New Game menu item the game > goes nowhere. The mouse still works but only killing X gets me back in > control. I had problems with the CD version, myself. The problems changed with different versions of wine; at that point, having never played the game before and having received it as a parting gift when a job contract ran out, I really hadn't given it a whole lot of effort, either. (After I played it, oooh, yeah, a great deal of my tube time was spent wandering the Black Mesa Research Facility.) > I may or may not follow up on this. I have a Steam account so I'll > shift to that version soon as it has all the updates and is probably > more recently tested. When I discovered I could import my CD keys to Steam, and that Steam worked according to the appdb, I decided to give that route the college try. Sure enough, installing Steam using the appdb's HOWTO for it, and installing Half Life worked. I can't recall running into problems once I started playing it. - -- Paul Johnson baloo@xxxxxxxxx -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFH7VExUCxPKZafKh0RAgayAKCtZCw6DCiG3dH1SYc5cLrYWq1K9ACgt07K 65EB8OT1k7+Lqp5MTNLQgyI= =He6I -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
