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#21 · October 15, 2007, 1:23 am

Hmm, honestly I'm not sure. You can try following the guide, but I don't know what might be different or not if you don't have HL2. You might have to wait I'm afraid.

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#22 · October 15, 2007, 1:26 am

Well, considering the Steam SDK doesnt launch unless i have HL2 or something installed (I found this out after I used my friend's login to install HL2). my acct though, only has portal, and the SDK doesnt launch. Kinda bites.

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#23 · October 15, 2007, 1:27 am

ChaosDreamer wrote:

So, I take it the only way to get this to work is if you actually have HL2. I only have portal, and I'm A)broke and B) not going to play much HL2. so I guess I'm stuck waiting on the portal SDK.

I wouldn't be so sure of that. I believe it _should_ be possible to just extract that stuff into your Portal directory (<usr>/portal/portal), then manually create a game configuration for it. I made a Portal configuration, but it was originally in the HL2 deathmatch folder. Or something. idk, it's wierd. Have a look at my game config file.

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#24 · October 15, 2007, 1:38 am

***edit

It seems the SDK will launch now. your idea worked.

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#25 · October 15, 2007, 1:40 am

<steam_dir>/steamapps/<username>/sourcesdk/ I believe.

Edit: lol I was too late.

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#26 · October 15, 2007, 1:46 am

I just put it in the portal folder (<usernameportalportal) and it seems to be somewhat happy. I try to run the hammer editor, and gives me some error

a window pops up and says: the configuration information for the game your trying to edit is invalid or missing

and if i hit run anyway

"gameinfo.txt" doesn't exist in D:games...portalportal"

even though there is a gameinfo.txt in there.

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#27 · October 15, 2007, 1:48 am

Are you sure the stuff in the game config file is right? You may need to edit it for your setup.

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#28 · October 15, 2007, 1:55 am

well, i found out that the game config was a bit wrong. but now that i fixed that, the SDK refuses to launch once again. I put the gameconfig into the steamsdk folder, and into the portal folder, but no luck.

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#29 · October 15, 2007, 1:57 am

OH! I remember now. It's /sourcesdk/bin

Gah, sorry about that. It would be replacing a file if you do it correctly.

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#30 · October 15, 2007, 2:03 am

Well, now that the config seems right, i get the error

FATAL ERROR
"MountFileSystem( 427 ) failed: SteamMountFileSystem(2604,427,0x1324fc74=,0x1324fd74) failed with error 5: No Steam Content Servers are available"

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