Quote: "The standard version (as you said) works fine without unintsalling steam or anything. However, for some reason, the Enhanced version refuses to work what-so-ever when steam is on the machine. It appears with strange errors, reporting that 'steam.exe has caused an abnormal termination'.... but that's a rare problem, and unlikely to be the reason for uninstalling steam in this case"
True. I assume when people say they have Half-Life and it was 'converted' this means they have the GOTY/Generations/Etc. Not the Steam Release.
The new Steam Release is just the Steam Cache version that is unlocked when you sign up. This is why it doesn't work when you install it with steam already installed. As it over-writes the files that allow standard operation. Easiest fix is quite simply to reinstall Steam. Then it works fine again.
However as Me! noted in his post, he installed it through Steam. So I don't see this being a particular issue.
Quote: "(a/b) try turning off that selective reading thing of yours...I said that steam had modified HL to source for me (without realy asking) and now it won`t run properly, I removed HL2 and Steam in an attempt to fix the HL problems since I didn`t want steam sticking its digital face into proceedings again, I don`t care what it does on YOUR sodding PC, I want to run it on mine!"
No you didn't. What you wrote was:
"I seemed cursed with that moronic Steam system, it only went and updated my HL install so that all my custom single player games won`t run"
Steam does
NOT Update Standard Release Half-Life.
What it does is convert it for Steam use. The reason your Modifications, Single Player Maps, etc. don't work is because Steam doesn't copy them across. As I quite CLEARLY and CONSISELY noted.
You still will have:
C:\Sierra\Half-Life\Valve as you original install directory
and
C:\Program Files\Valve\Steam\SteamApp\Your@Email.com\Half-Life\ as your new steam install, and actually when it converts until you run it you won't even have that you will just have.
C:\Program Files\Valve\Steam\SteamApp\Half-Life Engine.gcf
C:\Program Files\Valve\Steam\SteamApp\Half-Life.gcf
As it doesn't unpack until you run it for the first time.
If you want it to run on your perhaps you should stop ignoring what someone is telling you because you don't like how it was said or the answer you were given.
Quote: "(c) your selective reading is going amock again...here...try this
Quote: "secret question..."who is your childhood hero?"...eh?, wt*, I don`t have one, or rather I have dozens, and I never entered that anyway"
see the bit that says "I never entered that anyway"? DUH!, that means I did not use that question for my secret question, I have it noted on the receipt, the note I have is nothing to do with "my childhood hero" they obviously messed up, messing up would pretty simple for someone who could invent steam."
No selective reading what so-ever. I saw what you wrote and I'm telling you that you either choose a Secret Question from a list to match your answer or you write your own. It's totally automated and compulsary. Much like many online forums like InvisionBoard and such.
If the question isn't what you expected then you only have yourself to blame because it's YOU who sets it. You can only change it once you change you password. Given you forgot your own password, is it not plausable that you might've forgotten what you set your own question and answer as? After all that's the point in the Q&A System, it's a password (not related to you normal password) that you get a hint to help you remember.
It's a good system and used by far many more things than just steam. Again if there are any problems it's YOUR fault, not Valve or Steam.
Quote: "(d) your an offensive jerk, don`t worry though, I won`t hold it against you, you obviously don`t have enough intellect to muster "normal", in fact I still think your a bot (maybe you need defragmenting)"
And your someone who obviously prefers to blame everything else except his own incompetence. Difference is, I know I'm jerk. One day you might realise your an idiot.
