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Posted by Orpheus on Mon Mar 27th at 5:10pm 2006

OK, I wanna activate HL1 in Steam. It says it needs my activation code number, which is legal but packed away in storage someplace.

I need the path to my number on my hard drive using WinXP pro.

I know is stored because I saw it ages ago but cannot recall how to access it.

Anyone remember?





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Posted by ReNo on Mon Mar 27th at 5:21pm 2006

A little google search turned up this, which should help...

http://hl.helpandsupport.net/?aid=54



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Posted by Orpheus on Mon Mar 27th at 5:39pm 2006

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Steam note: YOU CANNOT CHANGE YOUR CD KEY WITH STEAM, AS IT IS BOUND TO YOUR USER NAME. YOU MUST CREATE A NEW USER NAME FOR A NEW KEY

My only fear. As I said, I used to have HL1, now its missing.

/me wonders.

My only clue is perhaps it was on my old P4 1.8 and not this newer machine.

Thanx for googling it for me Duncan.





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Posted by Orpheus on Mon Mar 27th at 7:00pm 2006

f**k me. My number is in use, elsewhere. My number.

f**k.

I reckon it will wait till I can get my disks.





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Posted by ReNo on Mon Mar 27th at 7:05pm 2006

Have you ever changed steam accounts? Perhaps you made a new one when you got HL2 rather than adding it to your existing account? If so then your HL1 key could be in use by that old account, and that may also answer the question of why you don't have HL1 in your steam games list.



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Posted by Orpheus on Mon Mar 27th at 7:17pm 2006

I only have one copy of HL2.

I do however have 3 legit copies of HL1

I might have used one of the other numbers, on my old machine. If so, it would be registered to my account, instead of this number.

Hence, I need to locate my HL1 disks.. But alas, they are in storage.

Oh well. It was merely a thought. Would have been nice to critique HL1 again.





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Posted by Captain P on Tue Mar 28th at 6:15pm 2006

Perhaps you can try Valves customer support or something - if you have a legal key you should be able to register it under Steam. It may be that it's Sierra's fault - they had some duplicated cd-keys running, but even then you can get it running with some customer support help and quite a bit of patience...


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Posted by rs6 on Tue Mar 28th at 10:49pm 2006

Pm me orph. I'll give you a spare account I have with HL stuff on it.



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Posted by Orpheus on Sat Apr 1st at 4:28am 2006

? quoting Captain P
Perhaps you can try Valves customer support or something - if you have a legal key you should be able to register it under Steam. It may be that it's Sierra's fault - they had some duplicated cd-keys running, but even then you can get it running with some customer support help and quite a bit of patience...

I have 3 legit keys.. All are mine but... I have loaned them out over the past years. They are prolly all used up by now. It didn't used to matter before steam, all you had to do was not be online at the same time.

I am pretty sure I loaned them all though :/





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Posted by Orpheus on Sat Apr 1st at 5:08pm 2006

Just got back from store after buying another HL1 <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">

At least, now I can critique them again. Thanx for all your help guys.





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Posted by Orpheus on Sat Apr 1st at 8:00pm 2006

Next dumb question.. To turn on r_speeds, you need but type "R_Speeds 1"

Now, refresh my memory. "How can I view them outside of console?"

I guess I need to research the commands again. With the new install, all my old stuff is AWOL. <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/sad.gif">





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Posted by Orpheus on Sat Apr 1st at 9:34pm 2006

Answer:

In steam, you have the option of setting the properties. Do so.

In the properties you have the option of setting the launch params. add "-dev"

(without the quotes.)

Simple as pie.





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Posted by Orpheus on Sat Apr 1st at 10:58pm 2006

Yippah.. I can frag HL1 at a modest 212 ping... Assuming the server is at 212. :P



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Posted by Orpheus on Sun Apr 2nd at 12:14am 2006

WOW!!, I actually fragged HL2 today at 225 ping, I didn't think you could even connect on 56k.

Course, the server was empty. I imagine a sharp ping hike with players present.





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Posted by Orpheus on Wed Apr 5th at 12:12am 2006

I went to storage and located my Op4 and Blue Shift games.

I can now critique those if the need ever arises again..

I'll be glad when the HL2 mods finally drop in price so I can get them. All are still 50 bucks at Wal-Mart. <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/sad.gif">





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Posted by Vash on Wed Apr 5th at 12:21am 2006

I was going to make a post in bold letters containing the latin-prefix for the word "seven", seeing how Orpheus posted seven times, however I could not locate such information. I would like to apologize for this inconvenience and hope you accept this picture of a goose.

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Posted by Orpheus on Wed Apr 5th at 12:36am 2006

Look pube.. Its my thread and if no one wants to converse within it but me... What can I do. :P

BTW, will this help?





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Posted by Vash on Wed Apr 5th at 1:00am 2006

The first time I've been called a pube. I don't know if it's an insult, a complement, or if you are coming on to me...Unless you're into S&M, then it's probably a little of all three.



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Posted by Orpheus on Wed Apr 5th at 1:10am 2006

prepubescent..

/giggles





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Posted by Vash on Wed Apr 5th at 1:11am 2006

EXCUSE ME SIR BUT MY GENITALS HAVE BIG BOY HAIRS SO THIS WORD DOES NOT APPLY TO ME.




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