Purchased the HL2 Silver Package from Steam....

[Hi Ho]

Now what? I purchased the package and all of the games showed up in the My Games list. I clicked on Half Life:Source because I want to start with the original. It took about 50 minutes to download then loaded the main menu. I clicked New Game and now it's been at the "Loading... Initializing Game Data" screen for over an hour. It is two notches away from being complete. It has been that way for the entire hour. The internet activity light is on solid and the hard drive is going. What is it doing?

[fork_boy]

You can get all the info here

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/index.php

[kram 2.0]

I'd say let it do what it's doing. It's loading all the files for a massive program onto your system. I believe initializing means it's actually loading the contents of the game onto your system.

kram

[Hi Ho]

Well, it wasn't loading files. It was frozen. Right after I posted that I noticed the mouse wasn't there. I ended it through the task manager and restarted it and it works fine. I waited an hour and a half for no reason. Oh well. All of the games in the package are working and I'm loving it.

[kram 2.0]

Originally Posted by Hi Ho Well, it wasn't loading files. It was frozen. Right after I posted that I noticed the mouse wasn't there. I ended it through the task manager and restarted it and it works fine. I waited an hour and a half for no reason. Oh well. All of the games in the package are working and I'm loving it.

That's Steam for ya .

kram

[pillainp]

So Hi Ho,

Glad to hear Half Llife 2 is up and running. How is it doing on that Ti Series card?

I am looking oout for the retail package. Steam is impossible here, with my incredible :-( internet connection speeds.

NPP

[Hi Ho]

It's running great. I don't know what the frame rates are but it runs perfectly smooth with all the settings maxxed out. I know I'm missing out on some eye candy especially when it comes to water (see HERE) but it still looks absolutely amazing. Gameplay is excellent too. Definetly worth it. HERE are some screenshots I've taken. I'm running in software DX9 mode. Maybe I'm not missing out on the water. After comparing, I'd say the water in my screens looks a lot like the DX9 water in the Anandtech comparison.

[pillainp]

So do you think I might get away with it on my poor old GeforceFX 5600?

[Hi Ho]

I'm not sure. In the Anandtech article they said there was a 65-68% performance hit in DX9 on the FX cards. However, It might work OK in DX8 mode.

[vödka]

Originally Posted by pillainp So do you think I might get away with it on my poor old GeforceFX 5600?

You should have no probs at all... I played HL2 on a P3 1.0 with 512ram and nVidia Gfx 5200 and the MoBo was only 2x and the game ran good... I had the AA off but the game still looked awsome and was tons of fun.

good luck with it!

[GhostRecon]

If you tried downloading the game and retrieving any updates yesterday, or even today you've just witnessed the Valves' servers near tneir carrying capacity. The CSS Bots and updates were released yesterday, took about 20 minutes to download about 10 MB of content.

After the game is started, you hit the loading screen why do they have in game updates?

[sataraid0]

Maybe this is not the place, but maybe someone can steer me in the right direction.

Installed HL/2 on my old computer and now have a new build w/better graphic's card and wanna install HL/2 on new computer?

Tried finding where this was discussed before, but cant find it.

Please........maybe some of you remember the thread or remember how to xfr HL/2 to my new computer.

Thanks.....................................Sterling

[GhostRecon]

If you own a package from steam, you can redownload HL2 on your new computer. If you don't, you just backup the game files through Steam and open the backup on your new computer.

[3sc4p3]

i want the silver package but where can i buy it or where did you buy it?

[Hi Ho]

This is a very old thread. Anyway, you don't buy it in a store. You buy it online through Steam. You download everything from the net.

[3sc4p3]

i want to get the silver package but on that link for it, it keeps saying Page cannot be displayed. I know its not my comp because i have tried it several times.

[Hi Ho]

It works for me. Have you scanned for spyware and viruses lately?

[3sc4p3]

spyware, and can you post the exact link in which i can purchase silver?

[Hi Ho]

spyware, and can you post the exact link in which i can purchase silver?

I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "spyware, ...". You scan for spyware with programs like SpyBot Search & Destroy and Adaware. Spyware can cause problems with internet browsing and other things.

About purchasing the silver package, you have to buy it through Steam which I linked to earlier (yes the link is working). It is a program that you download and it is used to purchase and run Valve games. When you buy a package through Steam you do not get a CD. Everything is downloaded from the net.

[3sc4p3]

alright now the link works. i didnt know you had to have steam installed to get the link to work.

[3sc4p3]

thanks for your help