changing language version of half-life
Rick Savery
buy Opposing Forces in UK where I live. OpFor won't install because it says
the version of Half-Life I have is in a different language.
Is there anything I can do, or am i stuck buying another copy of Half-Life
in the UK ?
Thanks
Rick
Andy Hawkins
In article <5CG8l.3728$F65....@newsfe20.ams2>,
Does your version of OpFor have a serial number on it? Can you use this
serial number to unlock a Steam copy and download that way?
Failing that, you could buy OpFor via Steam?
Andy
Rick Savery
Yes, OpFor does have a serial number but the version of Half-Life I have
does not involve Steam in any way.
Does unlocking a Stream copy of OpFor still works under these cicumstances ?
Seems unlikely but what do I know :-) The version of Half Life is a CD
version with, as I say, no connection to Steam
Cheers
Rick
"Andy Hawkins" <an...@gently.org.uk> wrote in message
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Andy Hawkins
In article <vYL8l.11203$gk....@newsfe18.ams2>,
Rick Savery<ricks...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, OpFor does have a serial number but the version of Half-Life I have
> does not involve Steam in any way.
> Does unlocking a Stream copy of OpFor still works under these cicumstances ?
> Seems unlikely but what do I know :-) The version of Half Life is a CD
> version with, as I say, no connection to Steam
It certainly used to. I originally bought Half Life, Op For and Blue Shift
on PC. I then entered their serial numbers somewhere when Steam first came
out, and it added these games to my Steam account so that I could download
them.
Definitely worth a go I'd suggest.
Andy
McG.
One thing of note here. My old game CD's won't install in x64.
Quake3Arena, H-L, Unreal, the 5 classic Tombraiders won't, nor will the
majority of my OLD games. However, the STEAM games don't have this problem
at all. X64 balked on the old 16 bit installers. Obviously, this doesn't
happen with Steam. :-)))
McG.
Stri
> Definitely worth a go I'd suggest.
Likewise. I originally played Half-life via a direct CD install. Later
I added the game to my steam catalogue much like Andy.
Having the games on the steam servers to revisit for old times sake is
one of my favourite features of Steam. Recently I used EA's game
manager (for Spore) and if you want to download the games after six
months you need to pay. Which is of course, cock.
Ben Cottrell
If you enter your Half-Life CD key into Steam, then it should
automatically unlock HL, OpFor and Blue Shift to your account.
The reason being - Sierra got clumsy with their CD key distribution back
around '99/2000-ish. As a result nobody knows exactly which CD keys
belong to which particular release of the game (Some releases were
multi-packs which gave you all 3 games, but the CD-keys for those packs
are indistinguishable to those from the normal packs). Valve were left
little choice but to assume that everyone who had an original legal HL
cd-key were owners of HL and both expansion packs - they have absolutely
no way to tell the different kinds of cd keys apart (at least those
whose publication predates steam anyway).
All you have to do is make a steam account and leave it downloading for
a day or two
--
Ben Cottrell
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as
kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills
and listening to repetitive electronic music." - Kristian Wilson,
Nintendo, Inc, 1989
McG.
"Stri" <geord...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> <snip>
>
>> Definitely worth a go I'd suggest.
>
> Likewise. I originally played Half-life via a direct CD install. Later
> I added the game to my steam catalogue much like Andy.
>
Same here. I'd bought HL and Opposing Force when they came out in the
stores. I just added the games to Steam with their CD Keys (you remember
THOSE right? Poor little guys!) and all is well. :-)
McG.