Author Topic: Half Life 2 problem (Read 782 times)

nirvana · « **on:** June 07, 2006, 10:15:19 PM »

I'm installing Half Life 2 again, 5 discs, 10-15 minutes, whatever. Well, i get an error in the hl22.cab file on the second disc, i say whatever, reinstall. Does it again. I clean out my cache because it happened before with MSFS2004. Redo it, good....then error on hl24.cab. 3 unsuccessful tries later,i'm on the 5th disc, and....hl25.cab.

Does anyone know how to fix this? I've been through all of Steam's help pages and none of them were any help. One said to restart steam and let it update but there is nothing to update and no way to update manually. Any ideas?

lasersailor184 · « **Reply #1 on:** June 07, 2006, 10:41:08 PM »

Take up trapshooting, You have 5 perfect targets to begin with.

nirvana · « **Reply #2 on:** June 07, 2006, 10:49:29 PM »

Right about now, excellant freaking idea. Then I can get some of that tannerite too.

AlGorithm · « **Reply #3 on:** June 07, 2006, 10:49:54 PM »

Air conditioning probably chilled the photons. Pop the CDs in the microwave for 10-15 seconds.

OOZ662 · « **Reply #4 on:** June 07, 2006, 11:23:22 PM »

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Originally posted by AlGorithm
Air conditioning probably chilled the photons. Pop the CDs in the microwave for 10-15 seconds.

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Wolfala · « **Reply #5 on:** June 07, 2006, 11:39:04 PM »

U used a cleaner on the disc?

Terror · « **Reply #6 on:** June 08, 2006, 09:51:30 AM »

If you have the disk space, you could try to copy the CD's into a single directory and install from there. Or install STEAM from the web and put in your HL2 CD Key and have STEAM download the whole thing for ya...

Terror

SunKing · « **Reply #7 on:** June 08, 2006, 10:32:43 AM »

Can't you just log into steam and download it? You cd key should be associated with your account name?

Birddogg · « **Reply #8 on:** June 08, 2006, 11:43:46 AM »

Maybe CD/DVD player is bad. Is it LG?

nirvana · « **Reply #9 on:** June 08, 2006, 02:32:33 PM »

CDs are all clean. I tried putting the CD key into Steam and it says I have to install Half Life 2 Regular edition before they do anything.

How do I copy them to a directory? Pretty sure i have the space.

Terror · « **Reply #10 on:** June 08, 2006, 04:31:25 PM »

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Originally posted by nirvana
How do I copy them to a directory? Pretty sure i have the space.

1. Create a directory.. Say C:\HLinstall
2. Highlight all files on CD1 and copy to C:\HLinstall
3. Repeat step 2 for each CD
4. Run "setup.exe" from C:\HLinstall
5. Hopefully it will install normally without the CRC errors
6. The "play" CD will still need to be in the CD drive to play, until you get Steam working correctly.

Terror

PS. If you get errors during the copy, you are probably having CD Reader problems or your CDs are hurting pretty bad...