HL2 taking forever to install?

sjt269 · 14 Oct 2007 at 18:01

My brother is installing HL2 on his machine after his hard drive died a few months back, and it's taking ages - it's been installing (from the DVD) for over an hour now. Is this normal?

The only time I've ever installed HL2 was back when it first came out (2004, was it?), so I can't even remember how long it took. I have a vague memory of sitting reading a book while it was installing, so it must have taken a fair amount of time, but I may or may not be misremembering, so I dunno. I don't even have it on my PC atm (also had a catastrophic hard drive accident a few months ago - several, in fact) so I'll need to get round to reinstalling it too, at some point.

Hamoodii · 14 Oct 2007 at 18:03

yeah happened to me once, took ages (well over an hour and a half)

modo77 · 14 Oct 2007 at 18:04

It'll depend on the speed of his drive, 1x will of course take longer. Shouldn't take that long though. Is the progress bar still moving?

paradigm · 14 Oct 2007 at 18:09

If it has really stopped installing, just add the game to steam and download it rather than install it.

Amnesia · 14 Oct 2007 at 18:10

maybe its unlocking the files and updating from the net....i would imagine the update is probably close to 1 gig by now.

tuftyfella · 14 Oct 2007 at 18:10

took me 4 hours just to download Episode 2 yesterday, doing Portal + TF2 as i type this.

sjt269 · 14 Oct 2007 at 18:33

modo77 said:
It'll depend on the speed of his drive, 1x will of course take longer. Shouldn't take that long though. Is the progress bar still moving?

The bar was still moving last time I asked him, so I suppose that's a good sign.

paradigm said:
If it has really stopped installing, just add the game to steam and download it rather than install it.

If we could get any more than 200kbs out of our 8Mb connection, I'd happily do that.

memory said:
maybe its unlocking the files and updating from the net....i would imagine the update is probably close to 1 gig by now.

Steam isn't installed/registered, so it can't be.

bledd · 14 Oct 2007 at 19:08

what os?

what programs does he have in the background?

disable AV (if it's norton, then it'll really nail the pc), disable antispyware scanning, disable system restore

sjt269 · 14 Oct 2007 at 19:49

It was on XP, with everything fully going in the background. No Norton, though his AV may have been scanning - I think his does regular background scans, I never even thought of it.

It's done now, though - 2 1/2 hours, he tells me, and then it proceeded to update Steam and path the game on top of it. Good old Valve.