Offline Loader

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I'm on dial-up and to install HL2 will take most of the day. I found an
Offline Loader on the web, but it didn't come with instructions. Anyone know
how to use it? I have no desire to play online, just single-play.

 

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"Patch" <bob_acord@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I'm on dial-up and to install HL2 will take most of the day. I found an
> Offline Loader on the web, but it didn't come with instructions. Anyone know
> how to use it? I have no desire to play online, just single-play.

Unless you're on sub-28.8, it won't take "most of the day". About 2-3
hours after it's all loaded from the CDs. After you're ready to play, stay
connected for another hour or so (it's all resumable) and you'll never
need to connect again.

 

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"nutt" <octaviola@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "Patch" <bob_acord@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1109352312.d99b8cb72a9dd4af20394c95da2441a8@teranews...
>> I'm on dial-up and to install HL2 will take most of the day. I found an
>> Offline Loader on the web, but it didn't come with instructions. Anyone
>> know
>> how to use it? I have no desire to play online, just single-play.
>
> Unless you're on sub-28.8, it won't take "most of the day". About 2-3
> hours after it's all loaded from the CDs. After you're ready to play, stay
> connected for another hour or so (it's all resumable) and you'll never
> need to connect again.
>
>I'm out in the sticks, 26.4 is my normal connect speed. It will take me
>most of the day to get ready for "Offline Play". At least it did the last
>time I installed before my HD crash.

 

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"Patch" <bob_acord@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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"nutt" <octaviola@yahoo.com> wrote

> > Unless you're on sub-28.8, it won't take "most of the day". About 2-3
> > hours after it's all loaded from the CDs. After you're ready to play, stay
> > connected for another hour or so (it's all resumable) and you'll never
> > need to connect again.
> >
> I'm out in the sticks, 26.4 is my normal connect speed. It will take me
> most of the day to get ready for "Offline Play". At least it did the last
> time I installed before my HD crash.

Hmm, well, I'm stuck at 31.2k myself. It can't take *that* much longer
can it? It may seem like a whole day, but I installed during the SuperBowl
and was ready to play before the game was over.

In any case, I have no clue what "Offline Loader" even means. You'd at
least have to decrypt the files through Steam, right? Then what, it tricks
the game into starting without any updates? I don't know why you'd
want to do this -- it's just the time it would take to download a large patch
for any game, and it's resumable, so you don't have to do it all at once.