When trying to start Portal 2 Steam starts completing the installation, aborts after a few percents and then gives the error message
Incomplete installation of Portal 2 (10)
I've verified the game cache, but that did not help. Any ideas?
Apparently that message only means the Steam servers are busy, it worked now.
Incomplete Installation (10)
Steam servers are busy. Please try again later.
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Are there any benefits/downsides to installing an Xbox 360 game to my hard drive before playing it?
One of the benefits would be that your disc will get less wear and tear. You still need to put the disc in, but after verifying it, it shouldn't be read again (though that will depend on the game). This should minimize the danger of scratching it if the console gets knocked. There should also be less noise as it doesn't need to keep the optical disk spinning.
You might also get faster loading times - but that would depend on the game.
An obvious downside is that you are going to fill your hard drive if you do this for all your games.
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Does anyone know if it is at all possible to install Portal 2 purely from retail DVD? I purchased my copy just yesterday and after going to about 4% the installer has now begun hogging my bandwidth by pulling the remaining 96% from Steam (online).
I am hoping and praying that someone can advise how to install 96% of the game from disk and have Steam only download the remaining 4% - if at all that's possible. I've looked on the Steam forums too, but there seem to be numerous similar complaints.
It just beats the purpose of having a dedicated retail disk for install - which by the way is 5.6 gigs in size - and I would imagine it to contain most (if not all) of the file needed to complete a Portal 2 Steam-less installation.
Update- I'm running Win 7 x64. Here's a screenshot of the contents of the DVD. The Resources folder only contains various language versions of steam installer (English, Thai and Chinese). What's the deal with all those Portal2_disk1_x.sid files?
Update 2 - Just wanted to let everyone know that the download has completed after 14 long hours and the game works just fine!
Go into Steam and select Steam -> Backup and Restore Games.... In the Backup and Restore dialog, select the Restore radio box and click next. Then browse to the root of the CD. It should say it found a backup for Portal 2. Click next, and it should install the majority of the game.
Note that I haven't tried this and offer no guarantees that it will work better than what you've tried already.
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