'Official' Half-Life 2 Thread. Do Not Create New Threads (NO SPOILERS)

[ente]

i am very sorry hijack

my virus scanner is at "high and bloodhound" adjusted.

This and your name and that your have only one posting thats make me paranoid

[hijack]

I sent an email to GCW already, but they haven't published it yet (maybe because I didn't include hl2.exe). Feel free to promote it. I'm tired.

I announced it on daemon-tools forums, they removed my post. I posted on Steam forums, they banned me. I finally found this place. It's a pity helping people is soo hard.

Anyway, I understand your fear about trojans. That's the main reason I published the source code.

[Grumpy]

It possibly wont get posted on GCW til sunday/monday depending on when Empire starts week 48.

[dalver]

What's with GCW? From daily to weekly updates? Legal, technical problems or something else?

[Floodblue]

AAAAAhhh,


so can someone now figure out how to get it to work without Steam verification. All these hackers have gotten to play the game, and I, who bought the game for 55$, have yet to see the title screen b\c I don't have internet at home. Even bringing my pc to work to connect to the net did not work, very frustrated...

[Big Country]

I doubt anyone is going to get around the steam verification anytime soon. I have a 3mb connection and it took 10 minutes to unlock all my files. If it took steam 10 minutes to do that and they knew what to do it will take someone else a year to figure it out.

[Bratmaxe]

@hijack

You Crack fix also work with the retail Version is protected by Securom

[Ice =A=]

Good Work!!!
However, let me put this straight: With hijack's modification, you don't have to put your DVD into the drive, but you have to be online EVERY time you start HL2 instead (NOT just only for the first activation)?!? Is that right?

(I really can't wait to buy that game, however I've sworn not to buy it till there's an offline activation and a nocd-patch! I just hate that steam nonsense!)

[Katz]

Originally Posted by cdkiller

i bet the 2 first questions will be:

1.) can some1 please make a crack for this game

Won't the crack for CS Source's exe (used as "HL2.exe -steam -game cstrike") work for this game too.

[Dimensio]

I ran hijack's fix through a virus scanner, and it came out clean. Tested it, and it works.

Thanks, hijack!

EDIT:
Hijack's fix works for offline mode, also. I unplugged my Cat-5, launched hijack's replacement Steam launcher, went into offline mode, and played HL2 with no DVD in the drive for about 30 minutes without a problem.

[Preach]

Dude! Hijack! Your the best! My bro scratched my copy of HL2, so I was'nt able to load it up anymore - but you saved me!

I just joined this forum to tell you that you sir are awesome!

#makes sweet love to hijack#

[steveo6269]

Hijack's crack is used to eliminate the use of a dvd, but you still need to connect to Steam. How long will we have to wait before a patch comes out that gets rid of having to go online all together? Earlier in these Forums, someone mentioned EMPORIO. They have posted a patch (Half-Life 2 (c) Valve *PROPER* *STEAMRIP* *DVD*) http://www.nforce.nl/index.php?m=nfo&id=79344 Does anyone know if this patch eliminates the Steam Actvation? And if it does, will Hijack's patch be good to use along side of this? I bought the game and im also one of the people that doesnt have the internet on my computer. I just want to play Single Player and not connect to Steam.

[Dimensio]

I would also like to note that this is the first noCD crack that I have ever seen that has been released under the GPL.

Nice going!

[Favaro]

Originally Posted by steveo6269

Hijack's crack is used to eliminate the use of a dvd, but you still need to connect to Steam. How long will we have to wait before a patch comes out that gets rid of having to go online all together? Earlier in these Forums, someone mentioned EMPORIO. They have posted a patch (Half-Life 2 (c) Valve *PROPER* *STEAMRIP* *DVD*) http://www.nforce.nl/index.php?m=nfo&id=79344 Does anyone know if this patch eliminates the Steam Actvation? And if it does, will Hijack's patch be good to use along side of this? I bought the game and im also one of the people that doesnt have the internet on my computer. I just want to play Single Player and not connect to Steam.

I have the dvd version of HL2 and used Hi'jacks crack and i was able to connect with it to steam in offline mode.


To start steam in offline mode you must have "remember my password" option on the logon screen checked.

Also dont check "dont save account information on this computer" on the steam account settings screen.

[JoyBoy]

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