i desided to install half life 2 again and play it. but i have a problem, ive already used the game on one account what i cant remember, not the name or password. even didnt find anything from my mail since its so old. so is there anything i could do to play the game?
thanks

probably not, unless you remember that user/pass combo.

was that account used on your machine? it might be possible to recover the username from the steamapps dir... then you can use the password recovery dealie.

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probably not, unless you remember that user/pass combo.

was that account used on your machine? it might be possible to recover the username from the steamapps dir... then you can use the password recovery dealie.

k, ill try. now i tried the account retieve, i entered my cd-key and it should send the account name to the mail adress its used on. but ill try that too
edit:hey that worked :O ill found the user name, now ill send recover pass

when you get that account back, you might have to mail valve the picture of your cd key to get the game transferred to your normal account. sorry, i should have mentioned that earlier.

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when you get that account back, you might have to mail valve the picture of your cd key to get the game transferred to your normal account. sorry, i should have mentioned that earlier.

ok, well i got this account now. i might just keep playing the game on this account, it isnt really so important to get it to my other account since i play hl only in single player.
edit:or not, ill try that picture thingy

:bump: does anybody by chance know how i can use GTR-2 without steam. it requires a steam download, and i dont want/need steam, xfire is perfect for me. can i just download it to my desktop, and install it normal? please help

Unlikely as it probably uses Steam as the copy protection. Be thankful that it's Steam and not something like GTL using Starforce.

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:bump: does anybody by chance know how i can use GTR-2 without steam.

not unless its cracked. steam isnt that bad... sure its not great but it works ( barely )

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:bump: does anybody by chance know how i can use GTR-2 without steam. it requires a steam download, and i dont want/need steam, xfire is perfect for me. can i just download it to my desktop, and install it normal? please help

Buy a copy from a shop. Install it from the disc and you won't need Steam for it at all.

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not unless its cracked. steam isnt that bad... sure its not great but it works ( barely )

You must be really dumb then. For most people, steam is awfully bulletproof.

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not unless its cracked. steam isnt that bad... sure its not great but it works ( barely )

It's better than any other game manager and it never crashes. (At least for me).

I never really had problems with Steam. Used to refuse to load on my old PC but that was when Steam wasn't all that old I think.

Not used it in a long time now (only a few games bought on there) so I don't know what it's like nowadays. People seem to get along with it pretty well and seems they do some good deals quite often.

i think i failed to mention, it is only the demo, and if i have to get steam, it will be only for the demo

can someone tell me what exactly steam does? with the combo of the logi profiler and xfire i think i have everything i need (from game managing to chat)
maybe i can have use for it after all even though i dont actually buy games, it is more of a demo kinda thing

It's a way to purchase and launch games, chat with friends, and find servers for enabled games. However the main pull is with the purchasing as often the games are cheaper and you can install them anywhere you wish.

It's an awesome system.

ummm since when has GTR2 been on steam? i dont recall Simbin ever releasing GTR2 on steam their first steam game was Race

idk, but if you go on the gtr website and try to download the demo, the first thing it asks is if you have steam, the options are no i dont or yes i do, if i click yes i do, it just asks how to handle the file, and steam is the auto-choice, but i wonder if i can open it with something else

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idk, but if you go on the gtr website and try to download the demo, the first thing it asks is if you have steam, the options are no i dont or yes i do, if i click yes i do, it just asks how to handle the file, and steam is the auto-choice, but i wonder if i can open it with something else

When you first went to the gtr-game.com website, you instantly clicked 'enter site' didn't you? Although there's two boxes underneath the main one with GTR and GTR2 there, they don't work.

What you obviously didn't realise is that it takes you straight to gtr-evolution.com, so the demo you've been trying to download is GTR Evo.

Just search Google for GTR2 demo, I know it's on Gamershell.

well...i just like to try lots of game demos...so the gtr evo thing sounds pretty sweet too

another question for another day, thankyou i will try that

EDIT: downloading, just waiting now

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I never really had problems with Steam. Used to refuse to load on my old PC but that was when Steam wasn't all that old I think.

Not used it in a long time now (only a few games bought on there) so I don't know what it's like nowadays. People seem to get along with it pretty well and seems they do some good deals quite often.

Even in the early days Steam has been rather reliable, with most issues fixed with restarting either steam or the PC. The biggest issue has been Valve underestimating the hammering their servers receive and leave validation and DLC unavailable for hours when something new comes along.

The only system I've ever found Steam to be shit on was a very old laptop which made HL1 unplayable as the resources hogged by steam caused the FPS to struggle to break single digits. But on anything somewhat newer (talking a system that was out of date when it was "new" in 2002) never had a problem. Even to this day Steam has never been an issue.

Most people who were up in arms about it either had shit computers or pirated their Valve collection and could no longer play when WON got turned off. Which I must admit, I do miss that old loading screen. It made gaming feel geeky and much better than a loading bar.

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Even in the early days Steam has been rather reliable, with most issues fixed with restarting either steam or the PC. The biggest issue has been Valve underestimating the hammering their servers receive and leave validation and DLC unavailable for hours when something new comes along.

The only system I've ever found Steam to be shit on was a very old laptop which made HL1 unplayable as the resources hogged by steam caused the FPS to struggle to break single digits. But on anything somewhat newer (talking a system that was out of date when it was "new" in 2002) never had a problem. Even to this day Steam has never been an issue.

Most people who were up in arms about it either had shit computers or pirated their Valve collection and could no longer play when WON got turned off. Which I must admit, I do miss that old loading screen. It made gaming feel geeky and much better than a loading bar.

Nice. Yeah my old system didn't like it too often (1.9ghz Celeron, 310mb RAM, FX5200 128mb) but then again I didn't play too many games on it. The games I did use through Steam ran, just not with very good FPS. I doubt the games would've had many extra FPS if they were run without the need of Steam.

I will have to try it again on this PC. If I had a credit card that worked online i'd probably enjoy it a lot more, as the only games I have on there are ancient and probably haven't been updated in a long time (The Ship (For the lolz), an expansion for BF2 and something else which I can't remember now).

I don't play many games on the PC as it is, so I doubt i'll be missing out on too much. Good to hear Steam is always getting better though. It really did used to be hit and miss on different systems.

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it just asks how to handle the file, and steam is the auto-choice, but i wonder if i can open it with something else

no, steam:// URL's are only of use to steam itself, and can't be used to download files without using steam itself.

if it was, i don't think valve would stay in business long.

tried it out...its a pretty cool game...the graphics suck, the options are pretty confusing (infact the whole menu system), and i feel like i am not in a car at all...but other then that, it is pretty good

the first thing i did was try to race, the car kept spinning, but it was at 10% rain, it seemed to be pouring! so i tried 100, it was a monsoon!! :jawdrop:

i love the rain

Only problem I've had with Steam is that whenever there's an update for Company of Heroes it has to download the ENTIRE game again instead of just patching it... :rolleyes:

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Only problem I've had with Steam is that whenever there's an update for Company of Heroes it has to download the ENTIRE game again instead of just patching it... :rolleyes:

It's problem of game developers who can't provide normal patcher to VALVe, not problem of Steam.