crunked

As I said, i've already exchanged it and it failed. I still have two serial numbers for my special edition, perhaps they will work for the pirated copy...

Wouldn't want to download on dial-up, and the files on the cd are compressed. I don't have nor do I know what program could open them. But I ordered a DVD version (I hope) off of ebay so hopefully the problem is solved.

I have the same problem, and I have already exchanged it. I think a similar problem came up with my copy of Half-life 2 but I fixed that by getting a DVD-rom, and I don't think GC2 is on DVD.