Will steam give you a HL2 shortcut on your desk?

[Tab]

Hey guys, the reason Im asking this is because I hate having programs running the background. I have a gig of ram, but I just hate the fact that while im running a game there is a program running in the background.

What Im wondering is, will Steam allow you to run HL2 without having to open up steam? (after activated) Will it put a half-life 2 shortcut on your desktop. Allowing you to run half-life 2 ONLY and not half-life 2 and steam.

 

[forg0tt3n]

yes if you right click a game in the "My Game" menu there is and option to show on desktop,

 

[Pauly]

You need steam open to run halflife2 either offline or online mode. You NEED steam running. It prevents piracy and steam is halflife2's backbone basically. YOu can put a desktop shortcut to halflife 2 but when you click it- it will open steam then launch halflife2.

 

[zul]

Just like pauly said steam has been implemented as a backbone to the game engine, so even if you created a shortcut from the desktop, steam would still be open. I wouldnt worry about it though, i'm sure it's been optimized with the game to make very little performance hit.

 

[Dynasty]

omg...........

*WASTE OF A POST*

 

[KagePrototype]

Steam is very much a part of HL2. So in effect, it isn't just some program running in the background taking up memory, it's intergrated with the game itself. I'm sure it won't make a dent in your 1Gb of RAM regardless.

 

[Tab]

Damn, I hate that concept lol

 

[Dekstar]

Meh, get used to it. Halflife2 will run and look amazing whatever settings you use, and if you have 1gb of RAM I should be the one worrying because I have only got 512mb