Questions regarding Half Life 2, initial updating

[DareDevil_747]

A few months ago, I bought Half Life 2 : Game of the Year Edition. I haven't ever been able to even try it out... When I installed the game, rebooted, then tried to run it for the first time, steam started up first and attemped to download something, updates I suppose, so I had to connect to the internet and let it download.
Unfortunately, I am the only person left on this planet that's stuck using dial up still. When I first installed this game, I was at my last home, and the phone lines were horrible, so even though I have a 56K modem and everything, 16.8Kbps was the best I could ever connect at, and when I would download anything, 1.80K/s was the average speed.
I let it download ALL night, got up the next morning, and it still wasn't finished.. So I gave up.
Now, I've moved into a new house, and the phone lines here are fine, so now I actually get the full speed of dial-up, downloading at an average speed of 6.70K/s.
Here's my question, if I give HL2 another shot, how long do you think it would take before I could play it?
Does anyone know how much data exactly that steam has to download before you can play the game?
Didn't the RETARDS at valve stop to think that some people might still be stuck with dial-up, and want to play their game?
When I say that I'm "stuck" with dial-up, I mean that cable and DSL aren't available where I live. The only option I have for highspeed internet is the satelitte stuff, which is way to darn expensive.
Thanx for any help!

 

[redrumy3]

A few months ago, I bought Half Life 2 : Game of the Year Edition. I haven't ever been able to even try it out... When I installed the game, rebooted, then tried to run it for the first time, steam started up first and attemped to download something, updates I suppose, so I had to connect to the internet and let it download.
Unfortunately, I am the only person left on this planet that's stuck using dial up still. When I first installed this game, I was at my last home, and the phone lines were horrible, so even though I have a 56K modem and everything, 16.8Kbps was the best I could ever connect at, and when I would download anything, 1.80K/s was the average speed.
I let it download ALL night, got up the next morning, and it still wasn't finished.. So I gave up.
Now, I've moved into a new house, and the phone lines here are fine, so now I actually get the full speed of dial-up, downloading at an average speed of 6.70K/s.
Here's my question, if I give HL2 another shot, how long do you think it would take before I could play it?
Does anyone know how much data exactly that steam has to download before you can play the game?
Didn't the RETARDS at valve stop to think that some people might still be stuck with dial-up, and want to play their game?
When I say that I'm "stuck" with dial-up, I mean that cable and DSL aren't available where I live. The only option I have for highspeed internet is the satelitte stuff, which is way to darn expensive.
Thanx for any help!

o boy ur going to be updatiing for a while. have someone burn you the files on dvd and send u it (with all lastest updates)

but if not your going to be updating for hmmm id say 2 days or more

Have someone you know or i can do it download w/e steam game u have update them and have them burn the gcf's to a dvd and send u it

 

[ziggo0]

Do what the man above me said. Just have him update and burn all the gcf's in the steamapps directory and you'll be set except for maybe a minor update or two (like less than a mb).

 

[DareDevil_747]

That sounds great, but I'm not real sure on how to do that... I could go to my aunt's house and download (she has DSL, like 100k/s) but where can I download the game files I need, and once I download them, where do I put them?

Also, thanx a million for helping me out with this, I can't wait to finally be able to play this game!

 

[redrumy3]

That sounds great, but I'm not real sure on how to do that... I could go to my aunt's house and download (she has DSL, like 100k/s) but where can I download the game files I need, and once I download them, where do I put them?

Also, thanx a million for helping me out with this, I can't wait to finally be able to play this game!

you have to make a steam account and register the game with steam and then put ur cd in so it can install w.e files are on it, then steam will update the rest of the file for you.

 

[rainless]

A few months ago, I bought Half Life 2 : Game of the Year Edition. I haven't ever been able to even try it out... When I installed the game, rebooted, then tried to run it for the first time, steam started up first and attemped to download something, updates I suppose, so I had to connect to the internet and let it download.
Unfortunately, I am the only person left on this planet that's stuck using dial up still. When I first installed this game, I was at my last home, and the phone lines were horrible, so even though I have a 56K modem and everything, 16.8Kbps was the best I could ever connect at, and when I would download anything, 1.80K/s was the average speed.
I let it download ALL night, got up the next morning, and it still wasn't finished.. So I gave up.
Now, I've moved into a new house, and the phone lines here are fine, so now I actually get the full speed of dial-up, downloading at an average speed of 6.70K/s.
Here's my question, if I give HL2 another shot, how long do you think it would take before I could play it?
Does anyone know how much data exactly that steam has to download before you can play the game?
Didn't the RETARDS at valve stop to think that some people might still be stuck with dial-up, and want to play their game?
When I say that I'm "stuck" with dial-up, I mean that cable and DSL aren't available where I live. The only option I have for highspeed internet is the satelitte stuff, which is way to darn expensive.
Thanx for any help!

HAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

That's just... that's just too much!

I'm sorry, but I'm pretty sure Valve didn't stop and consider... for an instant... that anybody left on planet earth, with the hardware that could run HL2 smoothly, was still using dial-up. I gaurantee you the thought never crossed their minds.

I'll leave you with this amusing anecdote: I run a video-based website (http://www.takeonparis.com). Certain people were reporting problems seeing the videos on the site. Both my partner and I tested it on various computers and it always... but ALWAYS worked fine. When I suggested: "Well maybe we can make a lo..."

"NO." was my co-host's reply.

I didn't try to argue with him. He's right.

Buy the satellite. Send a freakin' ROCKET up there yourself if you have to. The revolution was about 10 years ago now. The futurists won. Now the future is the recent path. We're already working on other things. Optical connections and such. It was really hard for me to give up my 2400 baud modem and go 9600... then go from 9600 to 56k. But I dug down deep and pulled it off. And that was in HIGH SCHOOL!

You can't live without a high-speed connection in today's world. And if you can, then you don't need to be playing Half Life 2. You could be a famous photographer with a beautiful european girlfriend. Develop all your photos yourself and sell them for thousands of dollars. Take the crocodile hunter's recently vacated position (may he rest in peace). Become a naturalist... become a mystic! Give your copy of HL2 to ME! I was recently thinking of buying it. I've gone too far. It's too late for me now... but YOU still have time! For freedom! Freeeeeeeedom!

 

[redrumy3]

HAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

That's just... that's just too much!

I'm sorry, but I'm pretty sure Valve didn't stop and consider... for an instant... that anybody left on planet earth, with the hardware that could run HL2 smoothly, was still using dial-up. I gaurantee you the thought never crossed their minds.

I'll leave you with this amusing anecdote: I run a video-based website (http://www.takeonparis.com). Certain people were reporting problems seeing the videos on the site. Both my partner and I tested it on various computers and it always... but ALWAYS worked fine. When I suggested: "Well maybe we can make a lo..."

"NO." was my co-host's reply.

I didn't try to argue with him. He's right.

Buy the satellite. Send a freakin' ROCKET up there yourself if you have to. The revolution was about 10 years ago now. The futurists won. Now the future is the recent path. We're already working on other things. Optical connections and such. It was really hard for me to give up my 2400 baud modem and go 9600... then go from 9600 to 56k. But I dug down deep and pulled it off. And that was in HIGH SCHOOL!

You can't live without a high-speed connection in today's world. And if you can, then you don't need to be playing Half Life 2. You could be a famous photographer with a beautiful european girlfriend. Develop all your photos yourself and sell them for thousands of dollars. Take the crocodile hunter's recently vacated position (may he rest in peace). Become a naturalist... become a mystic! Give your copy of HL2 to ME! I was recently thinking of buying it. I've gone too far. It's too late for me now... but YOU still have time! For freedom! Freeeeeeeedom!

um that doesnt help him at all, lol satellite sucks when weather is bad so yea

 

[boris_37]

aye, if you have the money to buy a computer to run the game well, you can afford a better connection(hence satallite).

Install the game from the cd's then let it update, if it takes a week, it takes a week. stop being impatient and let it download.

 

[rainless]

um that doesnt help him at all, lol satellite sucks when weather is bad so yea

It does help him. Considering the alternative he should get the satellite and pray for rainless.