*** Steam / HL2 / Source FAQ ***

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Re: *** Steam / Half-Life 2 / Counter-Strike: Source FAQ ***

Nice FAQ, but...

Originally posted by DaveyD
Q: If I buy Half-Life 2 from the shops, do I need to keep the DVD in the drive now that it is registered to my account?

A: Unfortunately, yes. All retail copies have to have a copy of Half-Life 2 in your DVD-ROM drive to let you play the game.
Mine seems to let me play both HL2 and CS:Source without the original DVD in the drive. Weird.
 
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Re: Re: *** Steam / Half-Life 2 / Counter-Strike: Source FAQ ***

Originally posted by Vertigo1
Nice FAQ, but...


Mine seems to let me play both HL2 and CS:Source without the original DVD in the drive. Weird.

Maybe they've changed it now.... as lots of people were moaning about it etc. You got no other image of the DVD on the system?
 
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No other image. Just installed it all from the DVD, which didn't take as long as I was expecting having read some reports.

I just happened to start it up once without the disc in the drive and immediately thought "oh damn this is going to bomb out", and it didn't, worked perfectly.
 
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