Those are copied off the disk and decrypted when you install from the disk. Your game's content is stored within the steamapps folder in the form of these files. RangerSVT: An education: 'GCF' files are the backbone of Steam. I never even got a confirmation for the ticket I sent yesterday.) (This time round, I got a submission confirmation. I did submit another support ticket to Valve, they haven't replied. Unfortunately, my problem is still unsolved. (The second one describes a problem with Alyx which is exactly what I'm getting when I use the popular work around suggestion: 'ai_disable') They appear to think that this is a Vista problem, although one person does say that this bug started happening on XP 圆4 around January this year and was supposedly fixed very recently. Perhaps the thread-necromancy could be explained by the fact that the problem still happens! Also, a common trend is for threads about this problem to be buried and resurrected and degenerate further into flame-wars about why people resurrected the thread. Obviously, the later caste oppose that opinion.

All those threads say it only happens on pirate copies and degenerate into fights between people who support that opinion and people who actually own the game and have the problem too. If you don't believe that this is a widespread problem, google the error message and you'll see many, many threads on different forums all asking about this. That might explain why you have never seen it at a LAN. Please note: this is HL2 Single-Player *only*. This problem has also plagued the Lost Coast demo, but, because saved games are not important for a half-hour demo, nobody has been taken seriously when they complained about it.

Scripted sequences still don't play, although mobs do actually start doing something. The console command, 'ai_disable' is supposed to treat the symptoms, but it doesn't. Here's what happens: when you start a new, Single Player game, everything works.

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