How to back up your Steam copies of Half-Life 2, EP1, EP2, and Portal
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- Опубліковано 18 кві 2024
- A tutorial on how to back up your Steam copies of Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2: Episode One, Half-Life 2: Episode Two, and Portal.
These games just happen to not have Steam DRM in them, so they can run without Steam, making them easy to backup and play on other PCs, such as PCs with older operating systems that Steam refuses to run on. Meanwhile, Valve's much older games, Half-Life 1, Opposing Force, and Blue Shift STILL have DRM on them, very strange.
(SmartSteamEmu is your friend for backing up a decent amount of your Steam games that have Steam DRM, including HL1, provided that they do not have a secondary layer of DRM, like Denuvo, etc. PCGamingWiki will tell you whether a PC game has DRM or not, along with other useful information, such as fan patches and fixes)
SSE 1.4.7 (with redists) - mega.nz/file/BDcSxaab#0hZYymr...
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Oh so I back them up by taking a backup of them. Very helpful!
Thank you! If valve and steam ever turn sour corporate wise in a few years, we can enjoy these classics and, hopefully, all the mods of it!
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This will be useful, thank you! Please make more videos like this if possible.
this is why i got a steam account when it came out. so i could play HL1 (and later HL2) on a flash stick on the school networks.
I saw you linked ssm on the description but Goldberg works better for most of these games. Goldberg is also more updated.
You mean SSE. I started trying Goldberg a few days ago for games that didn't work with SSE, but so far none of them have worked with Goldberg either (EDIT: Alien Swarm Reactive Drop works with Goldberg!). Except for TF2, which lets you get in game, but then it always randomly crashes within a minute without fail, wonder what causes that. I also tried vanilla retail TF2 from 2008, that doesn't work either either emu.
Anyway, I like SSE better, there's less clutter, and you don't need to replace steam api files and whatnot. I suppose I'll try more games that didn't work with SSE in the future.
@@BloodWraith777 when i tried to use sse for portal 2 it didnt work but goldberg did work. i used rev emu for half life 1 as neither goldberg or ssm would work.
@@L0tsen I'm assuming you mean Portal 2 crashes with SSE, you need to disable overlay in emu settings. L4D1/L4D2/Portal 2/Alien Swarm crash if overlay is enabled. And last I checked, HL1 works with SSE, both the legacy build, and 25th anniversary build.
@@BloodWraith777 my build of sse must have been outdated.
Babe wake up, another banger has been posted
Another silly question, what do I do to install mods then?
If you mean HL2 / Source mods, I made a "Steamless Standalone Source Mods Tutorial" vid, but that's mainly for mods that use Source SDK 2013 Singleplayer (or older mods that don't use custom code that can be "converted" into a Source 2013 mod). For non 2013 Source mods that do use custom code, I guess you could use a Steam emu (SmartSteamEmu) along with the appropriate older Source SDK (Source 2006/2007, which for some dumb reason have Steam DRM in the hl2 executable, while 2013 doesn't.)
Can you do this for L4D2? Or L4D1?
Yeah, you're gonna need SmartSteamEmu though (link in desc). Make sure to disable the emu's overlay for L4D1/L4D2 (Right click the game in SSE's window, Properties, Extra tab, Enable Overlay - False. Otherwise L4D1/L4D2 will crash 0.2 seconds into the loading screen.
@@BloodWraith777 hey man do you have discord?
Yes but you will need to use Goldberg steam emu and smart steam emu. If I remember correctly it was Goldberg for l4d2 and smart steam emu for l4d1