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[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

[sabbey]

There was an update today:

http://www.steampowered.com/forums/s...hreadid=203309

I just tried it myself and it works...

I guess there's no need for a NOCD/DVD patch now. Thanks hijack for allowing the game to be played without the disc till this new development.

[JoyBoy]

What is the average age of posters on the Steam Forums? 9? 10? Bunch of kids post on there. "OH MY GOD VIVENDI IS GOING TO SUE VALVE AGAIN"!!!!!!!!!!!!! "DOES THIS MEAN VALVE WILL HAVE TO SHUTDOWN HL2 WHILE GETTING THE OK FROM VIVENDI?"

TWATS