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Half-Life 2 Preloading from Steam: Part 2

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the teasing-us dept.

BrainsVolpe writes "For those of us on Steam, we can continue our 'preloading'of Half-Life 2. This time around we'll be downloading 'the majority of the audio of Half-Life 2 in encrypted form.' Does this mean we'll be getting HL2 before September 30th? Only Valve knows for sure... sorta."

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  1. Ask Slashdot: How to re-start? by richie2000 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I got the prompt to pre-load before, denied it to let the server load subside a bit and now I can't get it to ask me again. Now what?

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  2. Re:Encryption? by karmatic · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It's not encrypted (despite what they say), if you fire up GCFScape, you can open and extract all the files.

    The true protection lies in that they aren't preloading Half-Life 2.gcf (the filename is in the ClientRegistry.blob file), which contains the client dlls, nor are they releasing the maps yet.