HALF LIFE 2 question (not a crack request)

[FarCry]

hey for the source games only the gcfs have being updated. so i can replace them with the one from the dvd. now for steam you are right many files have been updated. there is also the platform.gcf which is the steam platform. but i will also swap this and i want to find the new steam.msi of to open msi with orca.msi and replace the files that are in it with the one from the folder

i will try it and i will tell you.

and i was not talking about old valve games. i was talking about source games

[FarCry]

i opened the steam.msi open with orca. there are the files which they are extracted in the specified folder mentioned in the next column. now the point is how can i replace all of the files which are probably in a cab file named w1.cab which is mention in the msi using this msi profile. i can make a cab named w1.cab with all of the files to be extracted how can i alter the files within msi installation like ultraiso which you can make what ever you want to an iso image

[FarCry]

so i have news!!!! first of all it worked. i replaced the cab files of all source games and worked fine. so now i put in a folder the half life 2 deathmatch its too trouble to put it into the hl2.msi and pu it in a cab in order to install it like the other source games. now the only thing that remains is to make a new msi package with the new steam files and use the databases from the old steam.msi. any ides how can i do it?

[Joe Forster/STA]

Hey FarCry,

Isn't Orca able to do _any_ manipulation on MSI packages? Sorry, dunno myself, I haven't used it extensively (yet?)...

Joe

[FarCry]

no with orca you can only manipulate the databases in th msi package. you cannot replace files within. i have to create a new msi package using the databases exported from the steam.msi in order to be everything identical. i have downloaded a lot of msi which produce, alter msi. i will give them a try. i thought of altering the hl2.msi package in order to put an extra option to install half life 2 deathmatch. i dont know if this is possible. last option if i cant do that is to put it in a separate folder and copy paste manually into SteamApps folder

[FarCry]

YESSSSSSSSSSS. i managed to do it finally. who cares about orc? the best prog is qwerty. i added a new component for half life 2 deathmatch an now from the hl2.msi file i can install it. . no i will do the same with steam as i have already extracted the files in the package and replaced them with the new ones.