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Posted by satchmo on Sat Dec 25th at 5:56pm 2004

I recently noticed that I no longer need to have the HL2 CD in the drive to play Half-Life 2. I tried this before (when I first got HL2), but it didn't work. But now it seems to be fine.

Is this true for everyone else?

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Posted by Kage_Prototype on Sat Dec 25th at 6:05pm 2004

Valve disabled it an update or two ago.
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Posted by Andrei on Sat Dec 25th at 8:08pm 2004

A step in the right direction. Now, if they would only remove the steam "log-in to play" system... [addsig]



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Posted by pepper on Sat Dec 25th at 10:52pm 2004

yeah, i noticed that to, its a nice update, it saves me my dvd.
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Posted by Neo on Sun Dec 26th at 3:48am 2004

Me 2, it was always a pain in the bum waiting for my dvd rom drive to spin up and read stuff off the disk b4 starting up.



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Posted by omegaslayer on Sun Dec 26th at 9:09pm 2004

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if they would only remove the steam "log-in to play" system...

its called offline mode
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Posted by Andrei on Sun Dec 26th at 11:02pm 2004

Whatever. It's weird that even in "offline mode" you STILL have to log-in. [addsig]



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Posted by Crono on Sun Dec 26th at 11:44pm 2004

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Whatever. It's weird that even in "offline mode" you STILL have to log-in.


You have to login then goto offline mode. If you close steam you say exit and not logoff or anything like that. If you do that you will stay offline until you specifically say otherwise. (Although, to initially get offline you'll have to cut your internet connection.)
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Posted by Andrei on Mon Dec 27th at 12:04am 2004

Yeah, i did that in the first place but it still asks me to start steam whenever i try to access HL2, CS:S or the SDK. And without an internet connection, steam doesn't work(i tested it).

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Posted by Spartan on Mon Dec 27th at 12:21am 2004

? quoting Neo
Me 2, it was always a pain in the bum waiting for my dvd rom drive to spin up and read stuff off the disk b4 starting up.

I know. Waiting 10 whole seconds must feel like ages.

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Posted by Kage_Prototype on Mon Dec 27th at 1:14am 2004

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Yeah, i did that in the first place but it still asks me to start steam whenever i try to access HL2, CS:S or the SDK. And without an internet connection, steam doesn't work(i tested it).



Yes it does. Offline mode isn't sans-Steam, it's exactly the same; the only differences are that you can't access the server lists, updates, or the friends section. You have to make sure that, in the settings, "don't save account information" is deselected (note the "this disables offline mode" written underneath it). Then exit from Steam, and completely disconnect from the internet. Restart Steam. It will try to login, and then say it can't connect to the steam servers. Click "run in offline mode". If it didn't work, you didn't do it right.
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