Half Life 2 installation problems

Captain tycho · Post by **Captain tycho** » 2006-05-25 05:02pm

So last night I was hankering for some SMOD shotgunning goodness, so I pop my GOTY HL2 disks in and reinstall. All goes well until I reach the point where sounds.gcf is installed. A pop up informs me that it can't find the file and would like me to verify its acessibility. So, clicking retry, it carries on. For another ten minutes on the same damn file, then the retry window pops up again.

Now, my disks are in literally perfect condition, having only been out of the case once. No scratches, nothing. Is something else causing this?

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2006-05-25 06:01pm

You could always download the files from Steam, instead of installing from disc.

Captain tycho · Post by **Captain tycho** » 2006-05-25 06:08pm

DPDarkPrimus wrote:You could always download the files from Steam, instead of installing from disc.

Would you like to do that at 20kb/s?

Vendetta · Post by **Vendetta** » 2006-05-25 06:55pm

Try manually locating the file on the disc. If it's there, try copying it manually to your hard drive.

If you can do that, try copying the whole disc structure to your hard drive and installing from there, assuming it will let you.

Enigma · Post by **Enigma** » 2006-05-25 07:04pm

Hold on, there's a PC version of Halo 2?

Sharp-kun · Post by **Sharp-kun** » 2006-05-25 07:07pm

Enigma wrote:Hold on, there's a PC version of Halo 2?

Unless this is some joke I'm missing, he said Half Life 2.

Davis 51 · Post by **Davis 51** » 2006-05-25 07:20pm

Enigma wrote:Hold on, there's a PC version of Halo 2?

I'm sorry, but when I read that, I just burst out laughing.
It's Ok. We've all had stupid moments like that.

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2006-05-26 02:24am

Enigma wrote:Hold on, there's a PC version of Halo 2?

No, that's on Comedy Central. What were you doing watching HBO?