Half-Life: Alyx – v1.5.4 + DLC + NoVR Mod Update #6-HohohoGames

Original Size: 68.3 GB

Repack Size: 38.4 GB

Languages: RUS/ENG/MULTI28

Companies: Valve

Half-Life: Alyx is Valve’s VR return to the Half-Life series. It’s the story of an impossible fight against a vicious alien race known as the Combine, set between the events of Half-Life and Half-Life 2.
Playing as Alyx Vance, you are humanity’s only chance for survival. The Combine’s control of the planet since the Black Mesa incident has only strengthened as they corral the remaining population in cities. Among them are some of Earth’s greatest scientists: you and your father, Dr. Eli Vance.
As founders of a fledgling resistance, you’ve continued your clandestine scientific activity—performing critical research, and building invaluable tools for the few humans brave enough to defy the Combine.
Every day, you learn more about your enemy, and every day you work toward finding a weakness.
About NoVR Modification
The easiest to use and most flexible no VR mod for Half-Life Alyx! This mod allows you to play Half-Life Alyx without VR, not needing specialized drivers or anything like that. Allowing for it to be played anyway and anywhere you like! Just copy and paste the folders wherever you have Half-Life Alyx installed via Steam and that is it!
New mod versions can be downloaded on GitHub:
https://github.com/bfeber/HLA-NoVR
Mod FAQ
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mlDz24iE1r4Lf16y5N9I37ZIvm4V0ie2Sxg1GBlcs10/edit

Based on Steam Build 8694564 release: 68.3 GB, thanks to Cylonshater!
Game version: v1.5.4
Goldberg crack/emu applied over; Index Preorder Items DLC included and activated
NoVR Update #6 (Commit 71e83ff; April 13, 2023) can be installed to make the game work and campaign to be completed on flat screens. You can skip installing this mode to play in VR
If you decide to delete the mod later (in example, for installing new mod version) run “Remove NoVR Mod.bat” in the game root
100% Lossless & MD5 Perfect: all files are identical to originals after installation
NOTHING ripped, NOTHING re-encoded
Significantly smaller archive size (compressed from 68.3 to 38.4 GB)
Installation takes from 15 minutes (16-threads CPU + SSD) up to 1 hour 15 minutes (4-threads CPU + HDD)
After-install integrity check so you could make sure that everything installed properly
HDD space after installation: 68.3 GB (78.4 GB during installation)
Use desktop icon to run the game in NoVR mode (or in VR mode, if you skip installing the mod)
To change the game language, open properties for game’s desktop icon and change english to your language: say, for Russian it should be “-language russian”
At least 2 GB of free RAM (inc. virtual) required for installing this repack

Download Mirrors

It is recommended to always use Magnet for downloads, and we suggest the following open-source clients: Gopeed

magnet

discussion && update

https://cs.rin.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=102225

Website links

Precautions and recommended settings

Always recommend using magnet links to download games for faster and more stable speeds. Recommend pure, open-source, ad-free download software (such as Gopeed or BitComet).
Before running the game, evaluate the game’s system hardware requirements. If your computer only has 2G of RAM, you basically cannot expect to run large next-gen games smoothly.
Extracting high-compression packages consumes a lot of memory. You must enable virtual memory and manually set it to 1 to 1.5 times the physical memory.
Example: If the computer has 8G RAM, suggest increasing to 12GB – 16GB; if 16G RAM, set to 24GB (both initial and maximum values fill in 24576 MB).
When extracting the game, the hard drive needs 2-3 times the free space of the game installation package. For example, if the package is 10G, the target drive needs at least 20-30G of free space.
The hard disk partition format must be NTFS. The outdated FAT32 format cannot write single files larger than 4GB, which will cause the extraction to freeze.
During game installation, temporarily disable Windows Defender or third-party antivirus software, or add the “game download directory” and “target installation directory” to the antivirus exclusion list.
If the computer has less than 4G RAM, or high-end computers frequently report extraction errors, be sure to check “Limit installer to 2 GB of RAM usage” on the first interface during installation. This slightly limits extraction speed but greatly improves stability and solves 90% of memory overflow errors.
When running setup.exe, always right-click the icon and select “Run as administrator” to ensure the installer has full system read/write permissions.
The absolute path of the game installation cannot contain any Chinese characters, special symbols, or extra spaces.
Correct example: “D:\Games\Steam”
Wrong example: “D:\游戏\赛博朋克 2077”
During the extraction process, the CPU and memory are pushed to the limit. At this time, strictly prohibit playing other large games, background rendering, or opening many browser tabs, otherwise it can easily cause resource contention leading to instant errors (such as Unarc.dll) or even a blue screen.
At the checkbox interface at the end of installation, be sure to check the installation of DirectX and Visual C++ Redistributable (runtime library suite). Many players successfully extract but cannot open the game (popping up 0xc000007b or missing various .dll files) because of missing these basic runtimes.
If the installation completes smoothly but double-clicking the game icon has no response, 99% of the time it is because Windows Defender silently quarantined or deleted the “crack patch” (such as steam_api64.dll) in the game directory right after extraction. Go to the “Protection history” in Windows Security and select “Restore and allow” for that file.
After encountering an Unarc.dll error, never download this DLL file alone from the internet and place it in the system drive. The game compression mechanism uses highly customized dedicated libraries; generic DLLs downloaded online are useless and can easily infect the system.
If you have strictly followed all the above configurations and requirements and still stubbornly get an Unarc.dll error during installation, you basically can only consider reinstalling a pure version of the system.
If it still does not work, then consider installing on another machine.