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Half-Life 2 Preloads Steam Ahead

[Aug 26, 2004, 11:13 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

Steam News has word that preloading of Half-Life 2 to Steam clients is beginning:

Half-Life 2 pre-loading begins to Steam account holders today. Over the coming days, those who have selected the pre-loading option will have encrypted Half-Life 2 files delivered to their PC. No purchase is required to pre-load HL2, but is required to activate the game. Purchase options will be released soon. Then, the moment the game is made available, those who have pre-loaded and purchased Half-Life 2 via Steam will be authenticated and ready to start playing.

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Aug 26, 2004, 23:24

Wookiestick

Just like with Counter Strike Source, I found that I could connect and get like 1.2 mbps on my cable modem by quitting Steam after the Half Life 2 preload prompt comes up and then says "try again later". After I restarted Steam I went to available games and tried again and it went.
Or maybe I was just lucky both times, m'eh, not sure...




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Comment [quote="Wookiestick"Aug 26, 2004, 23:24]Just like with Counter Strike Source, I found that I could connect and get like 1.2 mbps on my cable modem by quitting Steam after the Half Life 2 preload prompt comes up and then says "try again later". After I restarted Steam I went to available games and tried again and it went. Or maybe I was just lucky both times, m'eh, not sure... [/quote]

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