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Speeding Up Startup Time
While this is covered under the relevant command variable in the Advanced Tweaking section, I thought I'd spell this one out here for those that may have missed it. You can speed up the time it takes to load to the Half Life 2 menu by adding the following command to the end of your Half Life 2 icon's Target box under its properties, or to the Launch Options box under Steam (See the Advanced Tweaking section for details):
+map_background none
This command prevents the loading up of the 3D animated background which sits behind the startup menu. Instead the game will load much more quickly with just a blurry color background. If you want to start the game with the console open instead, substitute the -console command in place of +map_background none above.
If you want to further speed up your startup time, go to your \Program Files\Valve\Steam\SteamApps\[username]\half-life 2\hl2\media\ directory and delete the Valve.avi file. Now create a new blank text file (Right-click in a blank area, select New>Text Document) and rename it to Valve.avi (not Valve.avi.txt). Once renamed, right-click on this file, select Properties and tick the 'Read Only' box then click OK. If the file is not made read-only the game will simply overwritte it with another full copy of Valve.avi. Having done this, the game should now skip playing the Valve animation at the start of the loading process, speeding up startup time even further.
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поставил hl2 родной... -- Steed -- 28.11.04@12:32 (Чит.: 265)