HL2DM released/Steam Update, but beware, it's causing some people to not be able to play any Source games!

[MikeMike]

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001

Originally posted by: nourdmrolNMT1

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001
Just for the hell of it, the GCF file:

http://www.synthdude.com/hl2dm-gcf.rar

and again, holy dear god. 22000Kb/s i didnt think that was possible.

MIKE

As in 22MB/sec? :Q:Q

yea, thats what my download speed looked like for the like 1/10th of a second it was downloading.

MIKE

 

[MikeMike]

and still no workie with new gcf file

MIKE

 

[PuterWiz]

^^ same

 

[Confused]

Dasm it, same here

 

[MikeMike]

night guys. ill be back tomorrow if i get my homework done.

MIKE

 

[PuterWiz]

bah, too bad such a popular thread for such a dreadful problem.

 

[SynthDude2001]

I dunno what's up then....I just ran HL2 and HL2DM again real quick to make sure they're both working, and they still seem to be just fine for me...

 

[sandorski]

My working HL2 DM install dir is 43.7mb in size.

A second system that's not working has over 50mb in the same directory.

Both are fresh installs of the Update with nothing added.

 

[Confused]

I've had updates to every .gfc file today apart from opposing force and codename gordon :roll:

So short of downloading 5gb of content again at home...I'm lost.

I'm going to try the unrar files onto my laptop (which hasn't had Steam connected yet today, so no other Source files have been touched) and see what happens.


Garry

 

[Confused]

Originally posted by: sandorski
My working HL2 DM install dir is 43.7mb in size.

A second system that's not working has over 50mb in the same directory.

Both are fresh installs of the Update with nothing added.

Are there any .MDMP files in the directory of the one that's not working (however they're only 43kb on my machine, so unless there are hundreds of them I don't know )

 

[rmrf]

look forward to hearing the results

 

[PuterWiz]

omg, me too, this is crazy... good night

 

[Confused]

Dasm you 4200rpm laptop hard drive, wanting to take 20 minutes to copy the SteamApps directory! (4.6gb)

The rar files are downloaded on my laptop now, so just going to wait until the SteamApps directory is copied.


Garry

 

[edm]

my hl2dm directory is 22 mb's
HL2 directory is 200 mb's
HL:S is 61 mb's
cs: source is 33 mb's

none are working after installing DM. worked fine earlier today.

 

[SynthDude2001]

Originally posted by: Confused
Dasm you 4200rpm laptop hard drive, wanting to take 20 minutes to copy the SteamApps directory! (4.6gb)

The rar files are downloaded on my laptop now, so just going to wait until the SteamApps directory is copied.


Garry

Good thing you're not in a time zone that's in the middle of the night right now, eh?

Edit: Holy hell it's late. Good thing I never go to class.

 

[Delitus]

It doesn't work for me either. I can't play any Steam games right now since I only have the gcf files for Source games, which aren't working.

I guess I'll just have to kill some time with Zero Wing (it's actually quite fun) until this problem is resolved.

 

[rmrf]

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001

Originally posted by: Confused
Dasm you 4200rpm laptop hard drive, wanting to take 20 minutes to copy the SteamApps directory! (4.6gb)

The rar files are downloaded on my laptop now, so just going to wait until the SteamApps directory is copied.


Garry

Good thing you're not in a time zone that's in the middle of the night right now, eh?

Edit: Holy hell it's late. Good thing I never go to class.

It's 3:43am for me right now. Luckily I am at work...maybe one of the servers will go down so I have something to do while this is being resolved...

 

[SynthDude2001]

Originally posted by: rmrf

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001

Originally posted by: Confused
Dasm you 4200rpm laptop hard drive, wanting to take 20 minutes to copy the SteamApps directory! (4.6gb)

The rar files are downloaded on my laptop now, so just going to wait until the SteamApps directory is copied.


Garry

Good thing you're not in a time zone that's in the middle of the night right now, eh?

Edit: Holy hell it's late. Good thing I never go to class.

It's 3:43am for me right now. Luckily I am at work...maybe one of the servers will go down so I have something to do while this is being resolved...

Same time here, but I'm just sitting in front of the computer like a nerd.

I was actually gonna go to sleep at like 2, but I just had to click on that "OMG HL2 DEATHMATCH RELEASED" thread....:roll:

 

[rmrf]

hahaha

 

[edm]

ok, need to get some sleep. hopefully valve will have this resolved later today. I just hope we won't need to download everything again..

 

[PuterWiz]

yea, im just a drunk that cant quite seem to drink enought to pass out... lol hahaha....... i need some CS, HOMICIDE TO THE RESCUE, last man standing <<< here.

 

[PuterWiz]

OMG ok, it works now

 

[edm]

doh, I gave it one more try before shutting down, and it loaded! didn't even do anything this time

 

[PuterWiz]

ok, i just clicked it again, got an update, and it works...., TRY IT GUYS

 

[sandorski]

ROFL

10 minutes ago I read a thread on another forum where a Valve employee was saying they wee working on the issue. Came back here to see if anything was figured out yet and saw the posts saying it was working now. Go and test it on the non-working Install, sure enough working fine after another small Update.

There are certainly disadvantages to Steam, but there are also Advantages. I think the quick fixes such as this one shows 1 of those advantages. Another advantage is always knowing when an Update is released and being able to get it without needing to find a working Download site on the Net.