Hamboza wroteI have a 512, The best way is to buy your game from Steam, the go get the cracked copy of the game from Nino or any place and copy it's files into it's steam directory, then you dont have to download it anymore, only the updates, i've been doing that since i was born. Some times I do even download games from Steam, at night my connection becomes double speed and I can easily handle 2gb at night so that works too.
This is a late reply, but just want to know, installing the game with the SCC installer, will install the cracked executable and registration in the registry ..... If I removed just the *.exe files, wont the Steam server detect the game as pirated? (when I install the updates and missing files from steam... )
Cause I read about CD-Keys in this couple of days, some people got there legit keys blocked after some time, it's a risk that I don't want to take.