"Unlocking Half Life 2 Files"

[geno]

Mine took about an hour to get to 50%, now it's been paused there for another hour. WTF gives? I know the Steam servers must be bogged down, but should the unlocking process be taking this long?

 

[Reliant]

Mine took maybe 3 minutes.

 

[Reliant]

Have you tried restarting steam?

 

[Cdubneeddeal]

Yeah...the steam servers are very bogged down. Mine only took a few minutes.

Slow hard drive?

 

[Robor]

Several minutes here as well and that was around 5pm east coast US. Pretty quick system (in sig). I saw plenty of traffic on my cablemodem during the process. I'm guessing the servers are bogged now. I'd say reboot and restart if it's too long.

 

[GTaudiophile]

Maybe 5 minutes at 7 AM this morning?

 

[GZDonner]

mine took 3 minutes at about 2 mins after launch time.

 

[naruto1988]

5-10 minutes, i can't remember

 

[JBT]

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
Maybe 5 minutes at 7 AM this morning?

ditto

 

[Shlong]

10 minutes at 3 am eastern.

 

[hdeck]

took 5ish minutes during the initial release early this morning

 

[brtspears2]

Roughly 5 minutes. Started unlocking around 12:15am.

 

[XBoxLPU]

About 15 mins this morning at 5:30 am

 

[MatthewF01]

mine took a LOOOONG time at around 11am so im in the same boat as you man.


but nice game though.

I was anticipating Doom more, but HL is a good game

 

[Yossarian]

actual time, 5 minutes at 8am. felt like an hour though.

 

[Quasmo]

took about 2-3 minuets at 3am eastern

 

[xSkyDrAx]

Mine took like 20-30 minutes/56k though.

 

[DefRef]

From loading the 1st CD to being ready to start playing took almost 40 mins., starting at 11 pm EST on Tues.

Compared to the 3-4 minutes it took to create a profile and start into Halo 2, this is pathetic! :|

 

[crisscross]

I have broadband at work. Can i download it here and then burn the downloaded files on to a CD to play on my home computer?

 

[biostud]

10 mins 28 pm GMT+1

 

[Tiamat]

Its Steam. Mine took 20-30minutes, and then steam said that they would try again later with the registration. I was able to play the game in another 20 minutes. Im not sure if Steam is finished registering though...

 

[OMG1Penguin]

Originally posted by: DefRef
From loading the 1st CD to being ready to start playing took almost 40 mins., starting at 11 pm EST on Tues.

Compared to the 3-4 minutes it took to create a profile and start into Halo 2, this is pathetic! :|

Hey fanboy, Halo 2 is on xbox, you don't need to install it unless you modded your xbox.
Besides, Halo 2's visuals are much clearer and industry redefining! And in multi-player, don't let anyone tell you different, the text DOESN'T take up the whole pane.

Edit: Unlocking took me about 5 minutes, with EQ2 in the background

 

[NicColt]

Don't know about you but it took me 13.5 hrs to d/l the HL2 component and I have 5 M/b broadband. It finished at 5:30am and I had to goto work so the files are probably still locked.

 

[Regs]

The CD version took for me around 15 minutes for all the files to unlock.

Needless to say "steam" is ripping my hard drive appart.

 

[Confused]

I restarted Steam at 12:00 PST, and by 12:08 PST i was playing HL2.