Gatorade Frost

I'm reinstalling Half-Life 2 on my computer after a crash caused by my university's computer scanning, and now when I install Half-Life 2 and steam I have to "Update Half-Life 2" and it's taking about 20 hours to update it.

Is this normal?

I'm pretty bummed/pissed because this is my one free afternoon that I can really just sit down and blow stuff away, but now my dreams of spending 15-20 minutes installing the game then going at it are now dashed by this 20 hour update.

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Emo Philips

Coppertop

Are you installing via Steam or just updating? When I originally installed the game via Steam it took a while to finish (I let it run overnight).

Gatorade Frost

I installed off of my DVD then when I tried to load the game it said it had to update it and it's taking something close to 20 hours to do.

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I got in a fight one time with a really big guy, and he said, "I'm going to mop the floor with your face." I said, "You'll be sorry." He said, "Oh, yeah? Why?" I said, "Well, you won't be able to get into the corners very well."
Emo Philips

cyrnel

Ain't Steam grand?

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feelgood

DoD just came out, I think it might be causing some heavy server usage with people downloading the entire game off the net.

I could be wrong

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sailor

Yeah, there have been tons of updates to HL, Steam, and Source. So there is a ton of shit to download, and add to that steam's general slowness and DoD... Yeah, prolly gonna take a while. Leave it overnight or something.

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