Installing Half Life on Windows 98se... for science! - Nickology
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2024
- I just picked up an IBM Netvista desktop pc running an Intel Celeron (Pentium 3 equivalent) CPU so I can get some 90's PC gaming back in my life! What was one of the first games I dug out to test? Valve's Half-Life of course!
What games would you like to see me try?
Intro music was Windows 98 startup music, along side the Welcome to Windows 98" splash screen music.
Note, yes Steam did come out officially in 2003! The release of Half Life 2 brought a wide adoption of Steam from people like me, so I always recollect that it came out in 2004 for some reason
appending “for science” to the end of a title sounds like something Aperture would do
I'm glad someone got it!
valve made alyx discs
I remember doing this very thing as a kid in the late 90s and early 2000s. Also installing Milkshape 3D to edit and make new 3D models for the game. Good times.
As a hl1 modder i am a fan of you
Imagine playing this when this freshly came out, insane graphics for the time sometimes i wanna go and time travel and experience how it was back then. I was born in 2008 so i couldn’t experience half-life’s greatness until 2021. I feel nostalgia for a game that’s older than me? I don’t know why.
It was pretty magical, especially the sound design really knocked it out of the park. That and the intro and resonance cascade sequence. Totally cool to feel nostalgia for something you may not have experienced new, I envy new players just getting to play this new for the first time!
Try playing it in vr standalone
I did it and it was amazing.. I made my own levels and models for halflife and counterstrike and created my own various games and stuff.. Its a shame everything is lost now. I would pay big money if i could have it all back . If just for a day.
Anyways, good times. Glad i have the memories.
@@youremybiggestfan I feel ya, I think I have some of the maps I made for counter strike source from a couple decades ago, might be in my steam files somewhere, but glad you have those memories of nodding in world builder!
" I feel nostalgia for a game that’s older than me" Same.
I was born in 2002 and at the age of 8 I played Half-Life 1 for the first time. And at the age of 15 Half-Life 2.
The original menus for Half Life, expansions and Counter Strike are so good
What a nostalgia trip, thank you and RUclips algorithm... My first time on Half-Life on a Intel P4 - Geforce 256 around 2002...
Sounds about right! I don't remember exactly what I played it on, probably an AMD Athlon system or maybe a Pentium 2-3. Thank you for stopping by, I'm looking to make more pc content down the road, let me know if there are any games you'd like to see.
I had a pentium 3 500Mhz with a 3dfx Voodo 2. I used to really love this game.
By far my favorite big box of the original Half-Life! Recently picked up the box and documentation, no cd, but I had the proper cd and jewel case that it would have came with. I was introduced to the game in mid 2003, I was only 6. Before that I was playing Wolf3D and DOOM on a Windows 95 pc in the garage. This won installer brings back memories!
Without discs alyx:
Worst valve game all time, artifact better
Worst game HL universe, HDTF better
What are you talking about? Alyx doesnt come in discs because discs are kinda outdated today, and i dont think the whole game would fit on a cd.
@@Celxorth steam big sheat
@@Celxorth steam outdated, discs more better
@@РостикГончар-и5ж well what are you gonna with the disc when the game's installed
This is a great video. I felt your excitement, I experienced the nostalgia. Thank you and subscribed.
Thank you very much, I appreciate the sentiment and the sub! I have a little work to do on my setup, but I should be able to do more of these meetings soon!
Direct 3d was *awful* in Half-life. The way the renderer worked was to bind a texture, bind a light map (a tiny texture) and draw a single world polygon; then do that over and over and over for every world polygon that is potentially visible. This is not a problem in software. It's not a problem on the voodoo miniGL driver. It's pretty bad in openGL and it is *awful* in direct3d. Graphics cards and APIs were developed for higher polygon counts and they expect vertex buffer objects and similar with large batches and few draw calls. Half-life spams an awful lot of draw calls and it's terrible.
Good video, it was a very nostalgic trip, the only thing I could ever complain about is that you're missing a CRT in your setup, not only to complete the retro look but because they're just simply better, even more so if you're going to run games in resolutions like 480p and also for FPS games since LCDs of the early 2000s have lots of ghosting and input lag.
Funny enough, just got one and set it up! Future vids will have it featured. Thank you for the comment!
I was born in 1999 and played hl1 with 7 years. It was so scary back then good old times
I want put alyx on sofa my room
Beautiful video and you explained everything perfectly. Its making me so nostalgic in having flashbacks of modifying this game making my own maps and stuff..
I remember something i havent thought about for over 20 years and dont fully remember it.
But to enable the console you had to add a line of some cfg file or something.
This game really oozed something magic.
It was a really special game that deserves an epic remake.
Thanks for the upload! / Tito Sweden
Thank you for the praise, it was fun to make this video! I'll have to do more like this for other games I played back in the day... But yeah to enable consoles I think you had to go into the keyboard settings and there was a box to tick "developer console" if my memory is serving me correctly. Game is still fun from Steam is you want to install and should work on modern systems ;)
The simpler way to enable the console back on the old WON versions of Half-Life was to right click the short cut to the game and select properties. The from there you would add to the command line simply "-dev".
there is a fanmade but really really good remake called black mesa, you should try it.
better than most official remakes of games
and FAR FAR FAR better than half life source
good video bro, you are defintely underrated!! keep it up man, you're doing great
Underrated channel.
Appreciate the sentiment! Thank you!
valvе please made alyx discs i want buy alyx
There isn't enough space to have alyx discs, even on Blu-ray. Alyx is 70GB and blu ray is at most 50GB, dvd is at most 17GB
@@farfromsensibletv Thats Get 8gb dvd
alyx 60 gb it will be 8 disks. Normally, I am ready to change disks for a long time in order to buy an HL disk
@@farfromsensibletv
And I want to overpay for the alyx disk. I won't be using steam.
@@РостикГончар-и5ж DVDs are not the necessary solution any more therefore there's no incentive for this on valves part. Anyone who has money to spend on a vr set will have access to steam
@@farfromsensibletv O dont used steam hes payed pircy
The original menu
im glad im not the only one who loves 98 the most..after going through 10 boards ranging from socket 370 to 478 and yet didnt find a perfect one. now im stuck with a p4 socket 775 2.8ghz wit ht, 256mb ddr2 geforce 4mx pci soundblaster live card and it was a pain to find the sblive drivers. and still having issues with dos games with no sound :(
Yeah for sure, I either find sb drivers that work on most games, or all games but freeze windows. I might have to reformat fresh but I'll probably do it when I get a game that I really want to play where it doesn't work. Currently running a celeron 633mhz p3 compatible
Whats the difference between p4 478 and LGA 775
Just a small correction, Steam actually came out on September 12th 2003. :)
Very nice video though!
Funny thing, it actually came out in 2002 but the official release is 2003
Things were better then... Everything was better.
Half life 1998 in Steam: *Sierra studios left the chat*
now imagin you played , doom quake duke at this point all very fast pace boxy looking shooters, no good story, no puzzles, just shooting. all great games btw but then this thing drops and you are in a intirely different world. the grafics was like something you never seened before. the story, the problem solving, the thrill. it was revolutionery hands down a masterpiece a pionnere in the shooter genre
Nuts how a piece of tech like the Windows 98 could run Half Life with some minor issues, but the PS2 and Dreamcast ports had problems like long load times and more
'pretty old'
not 2 minutes in and he starts getting technical.
Thank you for the feedback!
Could you do the same with Half-Life 2? The first version of Half-Life 2 supported Windows 98 (it says so on the back of the box of the physical copy) but I've never seen it running on it
They would need to burn a copy of that remade iso another RUclipsr made since that is the only way to get actual old engine launchable since hl2 requires steam (the iso installs old steam but you can launch the games without)
It should be possible with the right hardware, but you also are required to run Steam which wants to update to a non-supported version on 98. It's possible to trick Steam, but I haven't looked into doing that myself yet!
For the king...For the science. ^^
This was a treat! Liked and subbed!
Thank you! Any other games you'd like to revisit now I've just upgraded the netvista?
@@Nick-ology well if you have it original Unreal would be a treat!
@@Finnisher_DAD hmm, I'll definitely add it to the list! That's a classic! Just upgraded the video card so I'll have to take it for a spin, great idea!
@@Nick-ology haha glad you liked it! Looking forward to it.
amazing install
Dude I have the half life blue shift manual still saved from all the years
Also the half life generation box. I get nostalgic because the CD smells the same as 20 years ago
"Science isn't why, it's about why not!"
considering the fact that i prolly can never get my hands on an original copy, this makes me wanna buy a cheap disc and put a cracked half life 1 installer inside
Internet archive have all the iso you should check
Win95,98,2000 and XP and 7 were the best and last OS MS made which they cared about. XP was most popular
what about windows 1.0-3.1?
@@Gmodfan750 They're good too, but I grew up with the one's that I mentioned.
I used XP, 7, 8.1, 10.
wow that is really cool
This was my thought. There would be no active modding community for say Windows 98 SE. But perhaps old games of old hardware could be further improved, without causing issue. Say slightly better textures. A mod for Half Life, compatible for Windows 98 SE.
Now ive never played Half life before until 2023 but i did played a pirated version of Counter Strike 1.6 that my dad installed on a 2007 Computer.
I hope you enjoyed it!
Half life will run on anything especially windows 98 as that was the os it was released on. It was released on November 19th, 1998.
My Best Game
I still have all of my Half-Life game CD's... At some point, I want to build my second gaming PC which had a 9600 XT to play all of my old games. Would be so cool.
6:23 that face tho.
Memories...
I have Half-Life on Windows 7 😊
I have to say, there is nothing like playing half life on an ultrawide monitor on a modern computer!
How long were the loading screens? It's crazy how nowadays they're only a fraction of a second.
They weren't too bad, when the game came out it was definitely about a good 15 seconds easily. More noticeable during the tram ride
Wow! It's very good.
HL1-2 Legend
Cs legend
Portal legend
Left 4 Dead legend
alyx worst game valve all time
"alyx worst game valve all time" No. Please stop ! Alyx is a VR Game and is the best VR game on market. Is not HL3 also.
Yes youtube! This is totally half life 2
incrivel apenas.... :d
Steam actually came out in 2003 and it sucked ass, I remember cause I was one of the first 200 accounts or something like that, crashed all the time etc. Then they revamped it in 2004 and made it mandatory for HL2 install and it sucked a bit less.
Yep, even in 04 in dial up it obviously wasn't a great experience, which is what I had back then
It would also make your pc perform noticeably worse while it was active.
nice
THE GREATEST GAME EVER MADE !!!
Wow this satisfaccion is so good
I love half life
Can it Windows 10 install Half Life 1998 Disk
Thats not a cathode ray tube monitor >=(
Nope, that was before I had one again! Just installed Quake using a Trinitron in a recent video.
Old days...
Somethings I miss from then, other things I do not!
Wow
Memories when my dad used to play VALVe games on his Windows 2000 (Half-Life Dota etc...)
You can't run Half-life with aureal A3D on a modern system. Aureal A3D is like 90% of the reason to have a windows 98SE system running still.
Now do half life 2 on a pc from back then
A little bit tougher but I've been researching how to do this without steam, since steam would require an update and might mess up on an XP machine
@@Nick-ology Find a physical version, im sure you can find them for cheap
@@Lisreal I have one from launch, still requires steam to install from the disc, and to register or log in!
3.1 also.. 98se was pretty sick but peak humanity was xp servicepack2
Win7 sp2 is also solid. I ran xp sp3 for way too long because it was so damn good.
when a 1998 integrated gpu is better than a 2009 integrated gpu
i have the exact same disc and installation and activation was fine but when i tried to start a game, it tells me to put the disc in when it already is. i have a feeling it is an issue with windows xp due to it being made long after half life, but im not sure. any ideas on how to fix this problem?
It's been a while since I've seen an issue like that, but I was able to find that installing an update patch from back in the day before steam came out might solve that issue. Something like this www.fileplanet.com/archive/p-16148/Half-Life-1-1-1-0-Client I hope that helps!
@@Nick-ology thanks! just put in a nice new gpu into my windows xp rig and gonna try this now!
@@korewaonigiri9069 let me know how it goes!
@@Nick-ology Half life now launches and works perfectly! Thanks!
@@korewaonigiri9069 Great to hear it! Have fun!
Let me see your CD-Key, thats not a big deals
Too. Late. Already making a new old pc with and AMD 2.0ghz and 512mb of ram, plus an AGP Nvidia gt 5200 FX.
PS: Running Windows ME on the thing and it actually runs just fine.
The 5200fx was terrible. You need something like a v3 3000/3500 tnt2 or 9800 rage pro or step it up to 6200gt.
I think it's easier to run the original 98 version on Windows 11 than on Windows 10.
I have played the original win 98 version both in Windows 10 and 11 without problems. The only problem is that the menu isn't supporting wide screen.
i can even install it on windows 95. if hl1 can run on 95, it can run on 98 as well.
That is generally true, yes!
Cd
I remember first playing this back in 1998 and it was absolutely surreal. Nothing anything like it. Now playing it on an AMD Ryzen 9 5950x with a 12GB Nvidia RTX its aged poorly (graphics wise).
You must have played Black Mesa as well. I picked it up Yesterday.
I think actually it looks bad because it's on high resolution and flat screen with texture interpolation, IMO. I got a CRT for old games, and it just looks far better.
I have the same cd of the game and i cant find the cd key, where is the cd key usually located?
I believe there was a separate card that came in the jewel case, but I'm not sure since mine is also long gone. I know there are generic keys out there just to get it installed (not for steam or course) so a quick search should yield some fruitful results.
Use 13 times 3, it's an universal cd key.
cd key: 3333333333333
I had this monitor, but the buttons broke and I had to get another. The syncmaster bx2450 is still going strong 10 years later.
Its too modern for halflife. ^^ It needs a proper CRT. ;) But still cool
Can you reuse the cd keys
I think you can if you don't use a steam version, in that case you have to log in to the same steam account to use
Ok thanks
Hello author,the Half-Life US CD released in 1998 has two different covers,one with a text under the phone number and the other with no text under the phone number,I would like to ask if there is any difference in game content between the two types of discs?
Now that I'm not sure of, I know it was common to find different retail packaging depending on where you could find it, in my case I got the big box version with the front flap, I know there was at least another slightly smaller box with no flap and a game of the year edition later on, but to my knowledge they were both the same disc version with patches available for download from fileplanet later on. Cheers!
@@Nick-ology Got it,thanks for your reply!
There were no graphics settings? Textures, shadows etc.
Not really, on games back in that day most games didn't give you that kind of fine control. Unreal did, but not many
I wanted this version of half life 1, but it's expensive and I'm scared to use it due it having a product key or cd key which limits me to one computer, unless I'm wrong.
cd keys are not one use. you can use em as many times as you want
Wait really, then are product keys the same or not. Also is the cd or product key for half life 2 one use or no.
@@yeseniagama882 i dont know about hl2
@@KrystalTheFox Oh ok, by the way would I have to unlink the code or not. (Sorry if I'm asking a lot)
they dont have to be unlinked. its like the same with all those 90s cd keys where you can use one infinitely
Yes..Half-Life
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Without discs alyx:
Worst valve game all time, artifact better
Worst game HL universe, HDTF better
amazing install