Problems Installing Half Life :(

Cuiiey

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• May 25, 2009

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Howdy!

Does anyone else here have problems installing Half Life on their computer, Every time i go to install it, it says that i cannot install as i only have 1.8mb of physical memory and that the required is 16mb. Dont think that that is the case as my home computer with 1gb of ram can play it but my computer with 4gb cannot Anyone out there have any tips or ways to fix this???

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ibitato

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• May 25, 2009

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if you mean hl (not hl2) i think there is no way you install it on vista.
You can try compatibility mode, but I think it won't work
HL its w95/98 game......

 

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Install it through steam, works great on Vista and Windows 7. Actually been playing through it recently myself.

 

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just a question (since Im am interesed)
Does that mean he has to BUY the game on steam, right??

 

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ibitato said:

just a question (since Im am interesed)
Does that mean he has to BUY the game on steam, right??

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Nope, just activate the Serial with steam. There is an option to activate a game with steam. Makes it really easy to install and keep track of those old games.

 

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Yeah running it though Steam should do the trick. It will automatically update it so it will run on newer hardware.

 

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If you still don't agree with Steam you can still install the old HL through a virtual machine, or take out one stick of RAM.
HL installs on 2GB fine for me.

 

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CharmyBee said:

If you still don't agree with Steam you can still install the old HL through a virtual machine, or take out one stick of RAM.
HL installs on 2GB fine for me.

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on vista ??

 

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Another option, though the steam options is VERY recommended, is run the setup program with windows XP compatability.

 

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just a question, how do i run the setup with windows xp compatability mode? how do i install it from steam?

 

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Cuiiey said:

just a question, how do i run the setup with windows xp compatability mode? how do i install it from steam?

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To install it from steam you have to activate the product in steam. To do this click Games>Activate product on steam and enter your code.

For compatibility mode, right click on the setup.exe or whatever and click properties. Adjust the settings in the compatibility tab to run as administrator and run in XP compatibility mode.

 

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Yeah, it's best to activate it on Steam and run it that way. All of the older games (Half-Life, Blue-Shift, Opposing Force, etc) run great for me on Windows 7 through Steam.

 

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Awesome, Thanks for the help! Seems like ill be activating it through steam

 

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I have no idea how to install Half Life too and that's my big problem. I'm not an expert in terms of computer but I'm starting to play computer games right now and Half Life is one of the games I loved to play.

 

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Cuiiey said:

Awesome, Thanks for the help! Seems like ill be activating it through steam

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and now your pc game collection is going to get bigger i know mine has since i got steam back in 2004/2005

 

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jediobi1 said:

and now your pc game collection is going to get bigger i know mine has since i got steam back in 2004/2005

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Hehe, ain't that the truth! I got a Steam account back in Feb. 2004 to play Day of Defeat and now my Steam games collection has grown to 46 games!

I love the weekend deals on Steam, if there is a game I am interested in, I pick it up for 5-10 dollars, it's fantastic!

 

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I just activated my old half life code thru steam and it gives a whole load of games!! I love Steam!!

 

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I just activated my old half life code thru steam and it gives a whole load of games!! I love Steam!!

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Ahh yes. If you activate a box copy of Half-Life, you get all the Half-Life 1 powered games such as Day of Defeat, Counter-Strike, etc. as well as mods and possibly even some HL1 expansions I think.