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RE: installing half-life 2
Basically all the disk is doing is installing the base files of the earliest version of the game, so every time you want to reinstall it now, it'll need to download all of the downloads from when the game came out in 2004.
The updates that come out are always major, so the files aren't exactly small, so it'll take a few hours, even for people on 4mb broadband (like myself).
You'll have to set up the steam account too, so you'll never really need to put in the disk again other than to install the base files, your serial code will always be "imprinted" onto your Steam account, as with any other game that you purchase through steam.
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