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Jon Lawrance
01-09-2005, 01:22 PM
Put my CD in my Plexwriter 12 and tried to install it. But, the light just flashes and it won't load. Don't see the installation screen or anything.

Tried the CD in another PC and it works fine.

Do some CD's just not like CD writers or something? Any solutions?
MJCfromCT
01-09-2005, 04:26 PM
Have you tried cleaning the drive? Do other games install fine? What about firmware upgrades?

No CDs, one of the many benefits of Steam :D
zybch
01-09-2005, 05:13 PM
No CDs, one of the many detriments of Steam :(

Certain drives have a problem reading the copy protection used by HL2 and other new games. Its called Safe Disk, although I'm not sure what version they are up to now.

This is all detailed in the HL2 Support section at www.steampowered.com
MJCfromCT
01-09-2005, 06:21 PM
Originally posted by zybch No CDs, one of the many detriments of Steam :(

How's that? :)

Of course you could just right-click on the game and click "backup", thus giving you a CD or DVD of any/all of your Steam games, which would contain the same 1's and 0's as the retail copy.
zybch
01-09-2005, 08:19 PM
Its an absolute pain, to say nothing of the authentication problems encountered when HL2 was initially released.
Its possible to back up your games now but that feature has only been available for a short time.
MJCfromCT
01-09-2005, 10:12 PM
True, but any "authentication problems" were simply a matter of such a high volume of activity on the Steam servers...which was to be expected for such a highly-anticipated release.

The backup feature has been available since before the release of HL2.
zybch
01-09-2005, 10:21 PM
Their news page listed it as a new Steam Feature well after the release of HL2.
MJCfromCT
01-09-2005, 10:29 PM
Originally posted by zybch
Their news page listed it as a new Steam Feature well after the release of HL2.

http://www.steampowered.com/index.php?area=news&id=341

November 8, 2004, 1:39 pm ˇ cliffe
A platform update is available and will be applied automatically when Steam is restarted. The changes include:

* Added backup game files feature (right click on game)

http://www.steampowered.com/index.php?area=news&archive=yes&id=345

Half-LifeŽ 2 Released For Play
November 16, 2004, 12:07 am ˇ cliffe
Half-Life 2 is available now for purchase and to play.

:)