My 3rd preload wont go....

[aFireInside0016]

Its been stuck at 81% since last night...

 

[Mr-Fusion]

Does the deleting of clientregistry.blob do anything?

 

[aFireInside0016]

how do I do that?

 

[Mr-Fusion]

Close steam, delete that file in your steam directory, open steam, then try resume the preload.

 

[Hectic Glenn]

Yeah i have the same problem, it get a smaler box come up, then close, and back to the start (81%) what difference does the blob make, wont that delete my steam in game settings or something?

EDIT: possible the servers are STILL full?

 

[CyberPitz]

could be, that happened with me on the 1st preload. It stopped at 70 something percent, and it wouldn't resume past that spot forever. I just canceled it, waited a couple days, started it, and it went. Be patient, it's not like the faster you preload, the faster you're going to be able to play the game

 

[The Monkey]

I have a question: I have just started to dl the forst pre-load, will all pre-loads(1-3) be in that dl, or will i have to dl three times?

 

[Bait]

You will get all three in the one download.

 

[tEd]

sometimes when it doesn't resume just exit steam and try another time. It happend 2 times to me but it always resumed at a later time

 

[Hectic Glenn]

what does deleting that .blob file do? and what else will i lose and a consequence of deleting it?

 

[Hectic Glenn]

...bump*

 

[Ahnteis]

The servers are just busy. Wait your turn.

Deleting the file forces an update of steam, but you still aren't guaranteed to get the HL2 updates. (See above)

 

[Dynasty]

yeah Ahnteis is right. think of the amount of people...all over the world...preloading hl2 at the same time. the servers must be going ****ing mad atm.

 

[razorblade kiss]

Know what sucks for the guys getting the game through Steam? If your harddrive craps out, or you have to format from getting a virus, you have a hell of alot of downloading to do.

If I buy it in the store, the install will probably take 10 - 15 minutes at most, then BAM I'm back in the game.

 

[CyanEyed]

Know what sucks for the guys getting the game through Steam? If your harddrive craps out, or you have to format from getting a virus, you have a hell of alot of downloading to do.

If I buy it in the store, the install will probably take 10 - 15 minutes at most, then BAM I'm back in the game.

Well, before I even play the game, I plan the burn all the GCF's to DVD, so let's see, at an average copying rate of 16X (20MBytes/s), I suppose I would be back in the game in about 3 min! yumm. Though, let's not forget you would have to reinstall Windows first