Half-Life Won't Update


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I finally broke down and bought Half-Life and CounterStrike and a bunch of the other mods on Sunday, and it just arrived at my doorstep :) However, I have run into a problem. I followed the installation instructions to the letter, and I'm at the step where I have to download the updates. Whever I do that, it complains that my Internet connection is invalid, check your settings and try again. I have no idea what the problem is, so if anyone could help me it would be most appreciated.

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Been said before.

Uninstall everything from your system. Install STEAM. Use your Half-Life serial for online play. Kick yourself for buying software you can now get for free.

:-)

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Forget Steam, its the worst way to play online games I've had the misfortune to see..

Download the latest patch from Sierra and install it manually. I could never get the auto patcher thing to work either.

Also dont forget to pat yourself on the back for buying one of the best single player games ever.

:-)

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Been running STEAM since it launched. Launch was MAJORILY sucky and filled with bugs. To be honest though, been happy with it recently. Haven't had any issues. You can BitTorrent the complete STEAM install too to save yourself time....

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You bought all of them? :blink:

You know... The original Half-Life key works with them all.

I'm a Half-Life and all of it's mods n00b. I had looking online for it for a while, I finally saw it on FutureShop, and bought it. I couldn't buy Half-Life separately, it only came in a 5-in-1 package.

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nice buy matt (Y) i always found myself downloading the patches from sierra and installing them manually. the auto update thing for me either 1) was too slow or 2) didn't work

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I can finally see what all the hype is about. Steam is downloading right now, and it should be done in an hour.

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nice buy matt (Y) i always found myself downloading the patches from sierra and installing them manually. the auto update thing for me either 1) was too slow or 2) didn't work

same here. but then i had the problem of the updates being sooo slow to download even though i had a fast connection. but its worth the wait!

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I'm a Half-Life and all of it's mods n00b. I had looking online for it for a while, I finally saw it on FutureShop, and bought it. I couldn't buy Half-Life separately, it only came in a 5-in-1 package.

well look after the box & stuff and it might become a collectible :)

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Rofl, you bought the whole shabang? You can get legal HL keys online for like 5 bux, and the yjust send thru email.....

Again, I'm a n00b. Besides, if I give Valve some money, maybe they'll release Half Life 2 faster.

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Who cares if how he bought, he did and he is going to have hours upon hours of fun ahead of him. I definitely suggest getting steam because it just ameks things so much easier.

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Just installed Steam.. OMG!!

On same server as was ten mins ago and my latency has gone from average of 70 to 1300!!!!! LLLAAAGGGGGG

Anyone ne ideas why this is?? Is steam this bad??? HELP!!

(And not got ne other progs runnin or D/Loading!)

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Just installed Steam.. OMG!!

On same server as was ten mins ago and my latency has gone from average of 70 to 1300!!!!! LLLAAAGGGGGG

Anyone ne ideas why this is?? Is steam this bad??? HELP!!

(And not got ne other progs runnin or D/Loading!)

It's you. Steam is fine for the majority of players.

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Just installed Steam.. OMG!!

On same server as was ten mins ago and my latency has gone from average of 70 to 1300!!!!! LLLAAAGGGGGG

Anyone ne ideas why this is?? Is steam this bad??? HELP!!

(And not got ne other progs runnin or D/Loading!)

dont worry about that, i had really high latencies too. after one of the updates, i went from an average of 250 to an average of 35.

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