Mr. Hasselhoff
11-18-2009, 08:23 PM
Step 1. Fixing textures and models
- Copy over all of the vpks from your ../Steam/steamapps/common/left 4 dead/left4dead/ folder to some temporary folder.
- Rename all the pak01_xxx.vpk and pak01_dir.vpk files to pak02_xxx.vpk and pak02_dir.vpk respectively.
- Move the renamed files to ../Steam/steamapps/common/left 4 dead 2/left4dead2/
Step 2. Stopping the crashes
Copied over from DigitalySane's Thread (you need to do all of this):
- Close Steam
- Navigate to "C:\Program Files\Steam"
- Locate Steam.exe
- Right Click on Steam.exe and go to properties then proceed the the compatibility tab in the window, here you should find a toggleable box next to "Run Program as an administrator" Tick it then apply then ok.
- Navigate to "C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\left 4 dead 2"
- Locate Left4Dead2.exe
- Right Click on Left4Dead2.exe and go to properties then proceed the the compatibility tab in the window, here you should find a toggleable box next to "Run Program as an administrator" Tick it then apply then ok.
- Launch Steam it will say something about do not run steam in computability mode and about picking one option will revert it to normal and the other will continue so pick the continue one whichever it is.
Steam will now ask you for your steam accounts Username And Password then you will enter steam as usual.
- Navigate to your windows folder (usually C:/Windows/)
- Locate the "CSC" Folder
- Try to open the folder and it should fail (if it doesn't, you have a different problem), It will come up with "You don't currently have permission to access this folder" at which time you keep pressing continue until it says you've been denied.
- Right-click the folder, go to properties.
- Go to the security tab at which point it'll say "To continue, you must be an administrative user with permission to view this object's security properties" at which point you click continue.
- Click on admin in the owner tab which will swap the owner to the administrator then click OK.
- You then click on OK once again which will bring up the security tab.
- Tick 'full control', press OK twice to get out of the properties tabs.
Step 3. Copying the maps and fixing sounds + l4d2 common infected
- Copy the following folders from ../Steam/steamapps/common/left 4 dead/left4dead/ to ../Steam/steamapps/common/left 4 dead 2/left4dead2/ :
---- maps
---- reslists
---- sound
---- scene
(When asked if you want to merge folders select "Yes to all", when asked if you want to replace files select "No to all")
Step 4. Play
- Open up L4D2.
- If you want to play with people who followed the exact same steps, simply start a local server and once the game starts type on console "changelevel <map name>". For singleplayer just type on console "map <map name>".
- Copy over all of the vpks from your ../Steam/steamapps/common/left 4 dead/left4dead/ folder to some temporary folder.
- Rename all the pak01_xxx.vpk and pak01_dir.vpk files to pak02_xxx.vpk and pak02_dir.vpk respectively.
- Move the renamed files to ../Steam/steamapps/common/left 4 dead 2/left4dead2/
Step 2. Stopping the crashes
Copied over from DigitalySane's Thread (you need to do all of this):
- Close Steam
- Navigate to "C:\Program Files\Steam"
- Locate Steam.exe
- Right Click on Steam.exe and go to properties then proceed the the compatibility tab in the window, here you should find a toggleable box next to "Run Program as an administrator" Tick it then apply then ok.
- Navigate to "C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\left 4 dead 2"
- Locate Left4Dead2.exe
- Right Click on Left4Dead2.exe and go to properties then proceed the the compatibility tab in the window, here you should find a toggleable box next to "Run Program as an administrator" Tick it then apply then ok.
- Launch Steam it will say something about do not run steam in computability mode and about picking one option will revert it to normal and the other will continue so pick the continue one whichever it is.
Steam will now ask you for your steam accounts Username And Password then you will enter steam as usual.
- Navigate to your windows folder (usually C:/Windows/)
- Locate the "CSC" Folder
- Try to open the folder and it should fail (if it doesn't, you have a different problem), It will come up with "You don't currently have permission to access this folder" at which time you keep pressing continue until it says you've been denied.
- Right-click the folder, go to properties.
- Go to the security tab at which point it'll say "To continue, you must be an administrative user with permission to view this object's security properties" at which point you click continue.
- Click on admin in the owner tab which will swap the owner to the administrator then click OK.
- You then click on OK once again which will bring up the security tab.
- Tick 'full control', press OK twice to get out of the properties tabs.
Step 3. Copying the maps and fixing sounds + l4d2 common infected
- Copy the following folders from ../Steam/steamapps/common/left 4 dead/left4dead/ to ../Steam/steamapps/common/left 4 dead 2/left4dead2/ :
---- maps
---- reslists
---- sound
---- scene
(When asked if you want to merge folders select "Yes to all", when asked if you want to replace files select "No to all")
Step 4. Play
- Open up L4D2.
- If you want to play with people who followed the exact same steps, simply start a local server and once the game starts type on console "changelevel <map name>". For singleplayer just type on console "map <map name>".