Kickstarting HL2 download Created 17 years ago2007-11-12 04:14:53 UTC by Kinrah

For ages my HL2 redownload has been stuck at 79%. It's been this way since I tried to reinstall it after several missing key files. Now, yesterday, when I updated Windows Media Player from v9 to v11, it seemed to kickstart it up again. But it only made it as far as 83% before my dad thought it was slowing the system down and made me shut it off. After discovering a process which WAS slowing it down, I turned it off, then turned Steam back on, only to find... the download's now stuck at 83%. I've tried everything suggested in the Valve troubleshooting page. Is there any way I can kickstart it again?

(Files that HL2 were missing included the first BSP of Route Kanal, the Eli model, and several obvious textures.)

1) Just hover over your steam taskbar icon and it'll tell you what your transfer rate is.

2) www.winamp.com > WMP

3) how on earth were files missing?

View > Bandwidth monitor

Check if you're getting any data from Steam at all. If not, you're probably being blocked by a firewall or something.

foobar > Winamp > WMP btw.

If the GCFs were incomplete, of course there'd be files missing.

1) Absolutely nothing. I'll have to check on the firewall but other than that I don't know.

2) Only reason I use WMP over WA is because on this computer WA takes about five minutes to start up.

3) When I first got the Christmas HL2 pack (HL2, Episode 1, HL: Source), entering the CD key got me all those missing textures. As Ant said, it was probably an incomplete GCF/improperly downloaded GCF.

(Sorry for the double post)

I don't know what happened this morning, but Steam liked it enough to start the download up again so now it's finished.

thank god...

And what do I find but the fact that the GCFs are still incomplete.