The ONLY Half-Life 2 Thread. Do Not Create New Threads

[Arkane0690]

You tried to circumvent the online activation and it is giving you an error , in laymans terms "GO BUY THE GAME". Oh and when you do, stop trying to create images of the game since SecuROM has that workaround blocked . With Alcohol 120 percent (which is better than Games X Copy ) I got the same emulation error and will continue to do so until they release the new alcohol (that won't be for awhile though so might as well not even wait)..

[krondike]

there is a emulation problem walk around...

[paulus]

Hi, i am new to this sort of thing. I am trying to get the hijack exe to work, i have extracted it to the steam directory and i have executed it from that directory using the Hijack.exe file. This worked for a day or so but now it tells me that there is no cd in the drive, exacly the same as if i tried using the steam.exe.
Can anyone help me please, i am running XP2 SP2.

Thanks

[Grumpy]

@paulus
All I can say is it seems to work for some people and not for others! Its nothing to do with Sp2 as I to have Sp2 installed and it has always worked for me in Offline mode! But I have never been connected to the net when I play. And I am still using Hijacks first crack!

[venom4911]

Originally Posted by Grumpy

@paulus
All I can say is it seems to work for some people and not for others! Its nothing to do with Sp2 as I to have Sp2 installed and it has always worked for me in Offline mode! But I have never been connected to the net when I play. And I am still using Hijacks first crack!

hmm maybe thats the problem then...maybe for hijack to work u need to disable yer internet connection...i think i may try that

[loukas07]

i ve done all these u said...but nothing...
..blocking with zone alarm the appropriate procedures....
...and no internet connection when i try to play...


Hijack PLZ help me someway!!!!!!

[Epitome]

Originally Posted by Grumpy

@paulus
All I can say is it seems to work for some people and not for others! Its nothing to do with Sp2 as I to have Sp2 installed and it has always worked for me in Offline mode! But I have never been connected to the net when I play. And I am still using Hijacks first crack!

Me2, untill today!

I guess they did something to disable the nodvd-patch!

Please help!

[Grumpy]

@Epitome
How did Steam know you had patched it? You should not have been online to play in Offline mode! I have never gone online to play once I installed Hijacks crack! I swapped back to the original files to update on the net, then installed hijacks fix again to play in Offline mode.

@JB
When I read that post, from the person after the DVD crack, I nearly wrote exactly what you did.

[sabbey]

Quick question, that is slightly related:

I plan on playing HL:Source once done with HL2. Just wondering, when I end up buying the expansions for it, the ones on CD at Amazon.com in the next week, will it work better with the GOTY edition of the original version or would the Source version run okay as well?

I'd like to use the original disc if at all possible since it'll need less BS to run, but if I use the NOCD patch for it, I can't have the music tracks playing too. Is there a way around this?

Oh well, hopefully HL:Source can run with them without any hassles. Assuming Source isn't as bad as most say it is, I'll probably just stick with it!

Thanks all!

[acarphinus]

Strange but true.
I was happily using hijack_hl2, then steam updated half-life 2, and the wedge broke.
I was back to using my precious DVD for a week. Then just now, I tried hijack_hl2 agan, with no DVD and it worked!
AFAIK, nothing in the game has been updated sence it broke, so It seems that there is something more complicated going on!

Acarphinus