Steam installation issues

[Animeniax]

Yes, unfortunately metered accounts are the way of the future in the States, since too few are consuming too much bandwidth at the same price the masses pay just to check email. It's more fair I suppose, though it will hurt my download activity. Luckily my university network will probably not have such restrictions, so I'll be ok for the next few years.

I haven't had HL2 installed on any of my machines since I finished Episode One in Summer 06. I had CS:S installed, but beyond the core files the two games differ too much in content that they require separate installs I think.

[Animeniax]

Well, here's for thinking outside the box. I'm not sure why I didn't think of this before or why no one else came up with the idea: register a new STEAM account. That should take care of the existing account problem where it tries to download everything. Trying the install right now to see if this works.

[David75]

Well, here's for thinking outside the box. I'm not sure why I didn't think of this before or why no one else came up with the idea: register a new STEAM account. That should take care of the existing account problem where it tries to download everything. Trying the install right now to see if this works.

another option could be a hdd exchange with someone of trust.

You clone your hd
send the copy to that person with a good adsl line or whatever.
They do the install for you
Then send the HD back.

I know.. time consuming, pricey... but still possible, unless your parcels are severely controlled or it's forbiden.

[Animeniax]

That did it. I made a new account and registered the game and besides a little downloading that was required while the installer prepared files and to update the games, the games installed from the DVDs like they should. I want to post this online in case others have the same problem (as I searched everywhere on google and no one else had suggested this course of resolution).