Half-Life 2 Now Available!

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Gameguru Mania News - Nov,16 2004 -

Half-Life 2 Now Available! - briefly
(hx) 01:44 PM CET - Nov,16 2004 - Post a comment / read (4)
VU Games just officially announced that Half-Life 2 is now officially in stores. Those who pre-purchased their copy via Steam may access the game by double-clicking on the Half-Life 2 icon in their Steam Games directory.
If you are one of the few, the proud, the ATI coupon holders and haven't yet used steam to activate your key because you want a hard copy then buckle up over to http://www.atihl2offer.com/ and you can now sign up for them to ship you the CD's in 8 - 10 weeks.

In another related news, there's a nasty Half-Life 2 bug out there that is stopping people from playing this seminal shooter. Valve's Erik Johnson sent out this to help those folks:

For people that are running into the bug on startup that looks like: "Map Version is 0, expecting 19"

Try this to see if it works:

1. Go into your SteamSteamApps folder.
2. Rename the file called sourcemodels.gcf to something else.
3. Relaunch the game.

This is going to require a redownload of this file, but if you want to get playing tonight it's probably the best path. There are a couple of people now that were in this situation that were fixed this way.

As soon as we possible we'll release a fix for this that will not require this workaround.

Please let me know if this does or does not fix this specific problem for you. Just shoot me an e-mail at [email protected]. If this does fix it, it would be useful to get copies of a couple of the renamed (bad) cache files.

last 10 comments:

slayer	(05:25 PM CET - Nov,16 2004 )
w000t! :D :D :D :D :D :D :D its out at last and i thought i would never see the day rockk

slayer	(05:25 PM CET - Nov,16 2004 )
slayer> w000t! :D :D :D :D :D :D :D its out at last and i thought i would never see the day rockk

slayer	(05:26 PM CET - Nov,16 2004 )
slayer> slayer> w000t! :D :D :D :D :D :D :D its out at last and i thought i would never see the day rockk sorry this seems weird im jus trying it out

Venom1	(05:28 PM CET - Nov,16 2004 )
Half-Life 2 is now officially in stores! And very soon even in the warez scene! EH eh eh :twisted:

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