To launch a certain game, click its respective shortcut. In the Valve folder, there are four shortcuts that will launch the games. Extract it and place the Valve folder inside Program Files.ģ. Download Valve.zip (2.9 GB compressed / 5 GB uncompressed).Ģ. There may be a workaround for this which I am not aware of.ġ.

Singleplayer modes seem to work fine, but I was not able to connect to online servers since they rely on Steam. I manually extracted all the game files using WinRAR and GCFScape to skip installing Steam, then dropped in an emulated Steam.dll (courtesy of RevEmu) to trick the game into starting. People who purchased the game legitimately and want to play it on these operating systems are no longer able to do so through no fault of their own. This is a problem because Steam no longer supports XP or Vista. With the return of Half-Life, I decide to show some love to this legendary series. Half-Life 2 is compatible with Windows XP and Vista, but all versions of the game (even hard copies) require Steam before they will run.

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