Error Message

[KingAndrew]

I installed the game Half-Life 2 and when I went to play it, a error box popped up and said:

Steam.exe (main exception): Unable to load library Steam.dll

What does this mean and how do i fix it?

I don't have the internet, and I was told that I don't need it.

 

[Barney Fife]

Unfortunately you were told wrong and misinformed.

You do need Internet to play HL1, HL2 and the rest of the sources, you must validate and you must have Steam account for VAC reason as well and to play HL.

Sorry.

 

[KingAndrew]

One more question:

If I already installed it, can I hook it up to an internet hotspot somewhere and just verify it? And if i can, how can i verify it.

If I can't, do i have to reinstall it why hooked to the internet?

 

[$kelet0r]

yes you can
bring it to a lan cafe or a friends house and load up steam with the internet connected - it should finish the job from where the installation left off

 

[Shasta]

yes you can
bring it to a lan cafe or a friends house and load up steam with the internet connected - it should finish the job from where the installation left off

True, but you will have to do this every two weeks or so - yes EVEN if you have auto-updates turned off. Steam forces you (after a short peroid of time, 2 weeks is the limit I think) to go online and at least check for updates for itself, and won't let you do a damn thing untill you do.

 

[Barney Fife]

One more question:

If I already installed it, can I hook it up to an internet hotspot somewhere and just verify it? And if i can, how can i verify it.

If I can't, do i have to reinstall it why hooked to the internet?

Well, you can go to your local cyber Café and or to the nearest street corner for those spilled WI-FI connections and update, create an account and validate Steam files. But as far as playing HL2 is concern, Steams does log me into my account whenever I launch HL2, so I’m not sure about that.
Please wait for more answers as more people will take a shot at your question.

Good Luck.

 

[$kelet0r]

True, but you will have to do this every two weeks or so - yes EVEN if you have auto-updates turned off. Steam forces you (after a short peroid of time, 2 weeks is the limit I think) to go online and at least check for updates for itself, and won't let you do a damn thing untill you do.

Thats completely false - I have had Steam offline myself for months on end with no inability to playing games

 

[Shasta]

Good for you. I had it in offline mode, hadn't played it in three weeks, started it as usual, and was promptly told that as steam hadn't been online for a while, it wanted to go online to check for updates for itself before it would let me do anything else with steam. A lot of people have had similar experiences, and we narrowed the time-frame down to about two weeks.

 

[Sparda]

Good for you. I had it in offline mode, hadn't played it in three weeks, started it as usual, and was promptly told that as steam hadn't been online for a while, it wanted to go online to check for updates for itself before it would let me do anything else with steam. A lot of people have had similar experiences, and we narrowed the time-frame down to about two weeks.

Because you are a tard, i have had steam sitting there for about 3months with no play and up and away it went when i played agane, and i didn't have net

 

[john121]

i think if you've validated it as a true legal copy it shouldn't ask to make sure it's legal again and again.. that's like windows xp asking to go on the net every two weeks to validate it's files before letting you use your PC. (just imagine if vista did that and how many lawsuits microsoft would incur)

 

[cquinn]

Its not checking if you are legal, its checking itself for game updates and patches. Your analogy is wrong because I bet most people who use steam also have automatic updates turned on for Windows as well, which is a
closer example to what Steam is trying to do.