Half-Life: Source Uncut – even in Germany

2007/01/03 in gaming, steam, x86
Tags: cut, gcf, gcfscape, uncut

Buying HL1 (Source or not) in Steam from Germany will end in an USK 16 version (no blood, enemies vanish when defeated, robots as enemies instead of soldiers, nuts and screws and no gore falls out of some monsters), even if you are 80 years old. How stupid this is doesn’t matter now. Here’s what to do: With this patch the version is uncensored again. Works nice. That was easy, was it?

There is (of course) also another/manual way, which means messing with the registry and some files in the steam folder. Just in case one doesn’t trust an automated patch.

Here the tips in greater detail; start with closing steam, then click the *.reg file (containing the following)

Regedit4

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Valve\Half-Life\cstrike\Settings]

“User Token 2″=””

“User Token 3″=””

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Valve\Half-Life\Settings]

“User Token 2″=””

“User Token 3″=””

“DELV”=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Valve\Half-Life\valve\Settings]

“User Token 2″=””

“User Token 3″=””

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Valve\Source\cstrike\Settings]

“User Token 2″=””

“User Token 3″=””

“AutoConfigVersion”=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Valve\Source\hl2\Settings]

“key”=””

“User Token 2″=””

“User Token 3″=””

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Valve\Source\Settings]

“User Token 2″=””

“User Token 3″=””

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Valve\Steam]

“PrevLV”=dword:00000000

“SurveyVersionToken”=dword:00000004

now delete the file “Source LV.gcf” in Steamapps and “ClientRegistry.blob” in the root steam folder. Deleting that file fixes also almost all other problems in Steam. However, after this Steam “updates” and the password must be re-entered. The next step is to write the following in the autoexec.cfg (just create it in “\Steam\SteamApps\nambulous\half-life source\hl1\cfg” if it doesn’t exist yet)

violence_ablood 1

violence_hblood 1

violence_agibs 1

violence_hgibs 1

cl_ragdoll_collide 1

cl_ragdoll_physics_enable 1

now, just to make sure it wasn’t in vain, restart the machine and log into Steam again. Should be working now.

//Update 2010/06/27

I had to do this again a couple of days ago and what worked, was to simply open regedit, go to “\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\VALVE\Half-life\” and delete the whole “Half-Life” folder. As I started Steam and the game again, it was uncut. Quite simple, especially in comparison with all the old crap above.^^

//Update 2011/01/03

Official Steam support page about Resetting Content Lock