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RE: Do not start from Steam
by kja999 on Sunday November 25th 2007, 3:16
hl2 does need win98 to operate smoother.
Its best to make an exception for hl2.exe in winecfg to set it as win98, but leave default as XP or something to make sure Steam doesn't get upset.
You do this in the application settings, just add an application and put in hl2.exe