Half Life 2 Preload

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Cant believe no one has mentioned it...but it's now available for preload on Steam! :)
 
Wasn't this on frontpage? And people have been talking about it on IRC for the past week. :p
 
Also what happens for ppl that don't buy HL2 .. can they delete the HL2 pre-cache? Also what size is the cache?
 
You don't have to pre-load HL2 if you don't want it :)

Don't know how accurate it is but this is posted on the Steam forum

Half-Life 2 compressed is 2Gb, and right now we're all downloading a 500mgbs pre-load file. So that would mean that if half-life 2 went gold and we only had this pre-load, we still need to download 1.5Gbs, which would defeat the whole purpose of having a pre-load to free up bandwidth...
 
anyone know how it's gonna be activated? i've got my free copy coupon thing with my graphics card...do i still have to send that off or can i just download it with steam then use that to activate it? if i send it off it says 'allow 4-6 weeks for delivery'...there's no way i'm doing that.
 
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Xie said:
Also what happens for ppl that don't buy HL2 .. can they delete the HL2 pre-cache? Also what size is the cache?

I've been pre-loading it. It's a little over 1 gig so far. One gig or so to go apparently.

-Wrath
 
All Done?

Wrathchild said:
I've been pre-loading it. It's a little over 1 gig so far. One gig or so to go apparently.

-Wrath


All done dowloading apparently!

hl2.jpg
 
Neat

The first download was about 500 megs compressed and cached at about 1.1 gigs.
This second preload cached at about 900 megs, but its audio so most likely didn't compress very well.
 
macromp said:
anyone know how it's gonna be activated? i've got my free copy coupon thing with my graphics card...do i still have to send that off or can i just download it with steam then use that to activate it? if i send it off it says 'allow 4-6 weeks for delivery'...there's no way i'm doing that.

download and install steam and register the voucher through steam...the product will preload and valve will activate it when it is ready...there are posts on the steampowered.com website forums that go through this but can't find it atm...hope this helped
 
The coupon, when you enter the code, will also let you play Counter-strike: Source beta, which is even more files you would have needed for HL2 :p
 

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