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[Dimensio]

Originally Posted by westie

Is using the NOCD patch illegal and can you get your Steam account banned from using it or is it not possible to detect. As I dont want to use it and find myself having to buy myself another copy of half life 2.

A Valve employee said that the patch does violate the Steam EULA (because it modifies the program during run-time), however I'm not sure that they have any current means of detecting it, and thus far my account has not been banned for using it.

[Arkane0690]

Originally Posted by Dimensio

A Valve employee said that the patch does violate the Steam EULA (because it modifies the program during run-time), however I'm not sure that they have any current means of detecting it, and thus far my account has not been banned for using it.

Why would you even want to risk getting banned by using it then (especially if its only a matter of time). I know you gave me the program and I thank you very much for that but if i'm going to end up taking that big of a risk (knowing that it is indeed illegal then why bother ). Please, don't get me wrong I hate having to use the DVD to play everytime BUT I don't wanna take a risk that severe (especially a severe risk with a time limit)..

[Grumpy]

@Arkane0690
There is no risks if you dont let it connect to Steam. I went thru the whole game, useing Hijacks first crack, and have never let it connect online since! When you do want to udpdte just swap the original files back over. No Risks taken then.

[Dimensio]

Anyone tried hijack's fix with the latest Steam/Hl2 updates? The hl2.exe executable might need to be replaced, but you should be able to extract an unprotected exe from source engine.gcf

[Grumpy]

@Dimensio
Yes the Hijack crack still works with the latest Steam Update. But this is how I did it. Firstly I moved Hijacks cracks (the 3 files, I am still using Hijacks first crack) to a different folder, and started the game in online mode to get the update. Then after updating i shifted Hijacks crack back to where it should be. Then disabled my Internet connection and started the game in the Offline mode. Everything works fine still without the CD in the drive. And I only updated today!