On a different note, i suggest all buyers from otigba test the cds they want to buy before leaving the area. na so i buy a copy of call of duty 2 only to take it home and see it was WWF Raw is War
reminds me of my hl2 odessey:
last year, i met a dude in PC village that sells specialist software.there are a few of them out there. you can get serious apps like autodesk inventor 11, autocad electrical 2007, Primavera 5,etc from them.of course, it costs much more(i got the inventor for 6K) always confirm that other sellers do not have the apps.(Also, that you can't find the apps and cracks online) i bought ms office 2007 from him for 1,500 last year, but its now everywhere for 400(worse, i later found it on the apps server in the office)any way, back to story. i bought hl2 from him. got home, found an 800mb rar file on the dvd. bad sectors, i couldn´t copy it. I returned it to him.he didn´t have any other copies.
on several other visits to PC vilage, i would ask around for hl2, and the dumb pricks would shove half life:opposing force(if you ain´t played it, do!its a half life 1 addon) at me, asserting this is half life 2!.
early this year, i found a dude with half life 2.the cover featured gordon freeman and alyx vance.2cds inside.but when i got home it was hl1 and opposing force.
midway through this year, one of my pals introduced me to projectw.org, a 100% correct warez site(its off the net now). correct moderators-banned the ip address of any prick who posted malware.anyway someone uploaded hl2.a 2.8gb file, 29 rar files of 100mb each on rapidshare.
without an account, after each 100mb download, you have to wait for 2 hours.worse, if a download stalls/crashes, you still have wait for two hours to restart.fortunately, i´m downloading from the office network.(can you imagine doing it in a cybercafe @ 1kbps, and with an unstable connection)even then, there was always the risk that the files would be deleted fom rapidshare. i did a v smart thing,i downloaded the webpage.
not too long after this, projectw´s owner yanked it off the net.halfway
(2 weeks) through the download, i return to PC village, and what do you know, some dude has hl2 on dvd.i buy it(400) take it home, and one of the 600mb zip files on the disk is corrupt. so back to the download .finally all files are downloaded. unfortunatey one is corrupt.back to rapidshare.
i unrar the files without incident.burn them to DVD(turns out this was unnesscary) install.follow the warez instructions.(don´t really matter, it was a tweaked install)
voila! HL2! I´ve waited so long. . .
not so fast. . .
first off, everytime I start a level, there´s a message, node graph out of date, rebuildingand the screen does this crazy gamma thing for a second.thats not too bad, but on my first load of a saved game, everybody and everything is frozen.there´s a message on the screen 'A.I. Disabled'.
i google 'a.i disabled' and find three solutions
1)correct via developer console,
2)assign an ai enable hotkey via cfg, or
3)mod the cfg file.
the third option is the only one that truly works.the ai disabled problem and node graph only occurs on pirated versions , a fact i consistently came across in the forums i searched.
so finally hl2 is running.thats when my treacherous pc starts its own thing.at the time,there was some serious dust clogging my fan(you should have seen it, when they got it out) HOT air was blowing out the vent, my keyboard was warm to the touch.the laptop would shut down during play or worse, the game would start to stutter. in my process explorer window, DPCs were at 75%.
oga to the rescue. my boss picked up a scrapped laptop from the company auction. I´m considered the defacto pc guru in my dept, so he asked me to help him fix it.i took it to pc village. it was fixed.hp pentium 4- 2.8 ghz ,64mb ati radeon,700mb ram(less than 15 aps on the system) (against my 1.6ghz, 128 mb nvidia geforce go6600;1.5gb ram and over 100apps any competition?)back at home, i installed hl2 on the pc, copied my cfg and save games, and voila! back in business. for the next week it was 'oga, they haven´t quite fixed it yet. . '. until HL2 was over and done with.now, if someone can just point me to HL2 mission 1 and 2. . .