OK, I have a new friend that bought half life.and for some reason I cant get steam to install.I have tried dloading the installer from many different sites.None of them work and they all do the same thing.when I run the steam install..it does absolutely nothing ....So I click ctrl/alt/del and it says that the steam installer isnt responding.Ive tried everything and it always does that same exact thing.here is how i install hl , FA and steam maybe you cant do it this way any more I dunno.....any help would be great. first i install HL , run the game and enter CD key then i install the HL update 1110 then i install FA29 and the patch then install steamThis hasnt never failed for me until now.

So the Steam installers aren't working?

Ok Bigbud, get EVERYTHING off your system relating to steam, use the uninstall program to get rid of the program itself, HL FA etc etc... as if you had just formatted...Delete the installers FOR STEAM ONLY as wellIf you have one run a registry cleaner and restart as prompted..you should have no rememants of anything Steam or HL left on your system at this point...------------------------Get the full installer of steam, good site = fileshack.com and run it as normal...#you do NOT need to install HL or any HL patches, as the big steam installer has it ALL in it and will auto patch them up to the required level...Once it has been installed input all your account details, and you should be able to play, your HL CD key is bound to the email of your account name, and you shouldnt need to put it in again.if you have any more problems drop into ventrilo and ill see what i can do

I do not know which installer you are trying but I usually just get the 600KB standard steam installer. Then login with my own account (you cannot have more than one at the same email address btw) then download half-life through steam then install FA. Its a little longer time wise doing this but you can be sure of where the problems arise. I hope this helps!

ok ill try it.i dont think the puter my buddy has is gonna run crapola tho LOLi just realized its a 550mhz HP with 128 ram and all else is on board HAHAHAHAim gonna add an external vid card and sound card on it for himhopefully itll be enough.

then download half-life through steam then install FA.

O i thought u had to istall steam last ??

ok ill try it.

 

i dont think the puter my buddy has is gonna run crapola tho LOL

 

i just realized its a 550mhz HP with 128 ram and all else is on board

 

HAHAHAHA

 

im gonna add an external vid card and sound card on it for him

 

hopefully itll be enough.

Hey! Thats the specs on my system (except I have 386 Megs of ram)

It runs HL just fine even with the pixel shaders as found in some mods like

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