Half Life 2 - Bad Disc

malichai11 · Post by **malichai11** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 11:36 pm

I bought Half Life 2 tonight. Stupid me, I paid for the game at the store and ended up with a bad disc 3, problem with the sound file. Why, oh why didn't I just download the game?

martindemon · Post by **martindemon** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 11:45 pm

(shady martindemon talking)
I heard the "downloadable" version now works perfectly...
(shady martindemon returns into shadow)

What brand of cd or dvd player or burner do you use?

malichai11 · Post by **malichai11** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 11:49 pm

LiteOn LDW-811.

I'm pretty sure it's just a bad disc.

Chaz · Post by **Chaz** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 12:18 am

I don't suppose you chose not to install Counterstrike, did you? There's a pretty well-known problem wherein if you choose not to instal CS, the installer glitches out around disc 3, I think. If you install the game and CS, it should go fine, and you just uninstall CS later.

Of course, that might not be it either.

WheelMan · Post by **WheelMan** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 1:49 am

I had a bad disc three as well. There was a visible rough spot on the surface. No trouble swapping it out at Wal-Mart.

Mithridates · Post by **Mithridates** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 3:33 pm

Chaz wrote:I don't suppose you chose not to install Counterstrike, did you? There's a pretty well-known problem wherein if you choose not to instal CS, the installer glitches out around disc 3, I think. If you install the game and CS, it should go fine, and you just uninstall CS later.

Of course, that might not be it either.

I had this problem with CS, too, but it's disc 4 where it freaks out.

JonathanStrange · Post by **JonathanStrange** » Wed Dec 29, 2004 2:10 pm

I had a problem with Half Life 2's disc four also. Installation would cease and I'd get an error message - I think it was "Error 1305" - and after trying several recommended "solutions", including the one mentioned here, I simply returned it to BestBuy and got a replacement HL2 game which installed perfectly.

If you've visited their forum, you'll find out you're not the only one. Disc 4 by the way did not appear damaged.

malichai11 · Post by **malichai11** » Wed Dec 29, 2004 5:07 pm

I returned it to Hastings for a new copy. I played through it for awhile, but started to feel ill. Nausea and a really bad headache, which I don't think was related to the the game as I'm still feeling that way a day later. The graphics in HL2 so far seem better than those in Vampire.

Strom · Post by **Strom** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 1:57 pm

I had a problem with a bad disc (3rd or 4th I don't remember) So what I did was installed steam FIRST, then installed the game. For some starnge reason this worked, even though it should not have.

UsulofDoom · Post by **UsulofDoom** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 8:19 pm

Some times if you lower your cd drive speed that can help. There is a utility out to do that .

CD Speed 3.1

http://www.download.com/CD-Speed/3000-2 ... ag=lst-0-1