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'My mate' has bought HL2 and set it up on his wifes machine (God only knows
why). He wants to play CS:S from his own machine, his wife doesn't want to
play anything Valve at all. He tells me that during the installation he's
asked for a CD key which he puts in but gets a message saying it is already
registered (which is true but on another PC). He knows that only one CD key
can be running at any time, but would rather play on his own PC rather than
his wifes. Can this be done? This is an attempt to recover from an act of
stupidity rather than trying to have Valve over.
I can't recall the exact course of the installation so can't help him. I
seem to remember reading that it can be done by copying some of the foldes
across from the SteamApps folder or something similar?
How do people re-install after a HDD format or change of OS?
Binky.
'My mate' has bought HL2 and set it up on his wifes machine (God only knows
why). He wants to play CS:S from his own machine, his wife doesn't want to
play anything Valve at all. He tells me that during the installation he's
asked for a CD key which he puts in but gets a message saying it is already
registered (which is true but on another PC). He knows that only one CD key
can be running at any time, but would rather play on his own PC rather than
his wifes. Can this be done? This is an attempt to recover from an act of
stupidity rather than trying to have Valve over.
I can't recall the exact course of the installation so can't help him. I
seem to remember reading that it can be done by copying some of the foldes
across from the SteamApps folder or something similar?
How do people re-install after a HDD format or change of OS?
Binky.