Sooooo, 1 of 3?

@Red Menace click the links directly from the list post, they’re all there and they all work.

Ignore the weird 0KB file if that’s what you’re looking at. We’re working on taking it down. In the meantime all the links above work.

thanks!

Thank you, sir.

the blackmesa.7z file says it has 1 day to download. whats the deal with that?

I downloaded everything and the extracted the black mesa 7 file then ra theinstaller. It told me did you download the back mesa 7 file? any help?

What a long neck Gordon have on the image at the top

When I try to run the installer I get the following:
Processing Archive: blackmesa.7z
Error: Cannot open file as archive
Failed to extract files. 7-Zip returned error code: 2

For anyone having trouble, make sure that you put all three files into a single folder, and then run the setup.exe file.

When I run setup for Black Mesa Setup it says could not find Blackmesa .7zip “did you download it?”
I did download it and extracted it to a new folder, I also downloaded the md5 but it still wont install, any help?

what 3 files dude? there are only two, the Md5 and the actual BlackMesa .7zip. There is no 3 files not including the Setup.exe

do you mean put the md5 file and Extract the Black Mesa Zip to the Folder under steam-source SDK base 2007?

do you mean put the md5 file and Extract the Black Mesa Zip to the Folder under steam-source SDK base 2007?

any ideaa?

do you mean put the two files into the to the Folder under steam-source SDK base 2007?

any ideaa?

@gil I meant this–setup.exe, MD5, blackmesa.7z. That’s what I meant by three files. Download all of those, put them in a single folder and then run the setup.exe file.

You don’t need to extract the zip before you run the setup.exe file. It’ll extract everything for you automatically.

Hey folks,
Just letting you know I dowloaded all three files from Game Front to my laptop, installed Black Mesa and it all works. Verified! The download may take a while, but that’s just because this “Half-Life” thing is kind of popular I guess.

Here’s a tweet we just put out with an example of how it’ll look if it helps:
https://twitter.com/GameFrontCom/status/246773384611000320

If you’re doing all that and still not having luck, I’d suspect you didn’t download the complete file for whatever reason. Your connection could have been interrupted, perhaps. Check the file size on the screenshot ^^ make sure it’s identical.

Also, open the MD5 file in notepad, and check that against the MD5 of the file you downloaded. That’ll tell you for sure if the file made it to your desktop intact. I just did this using this program, which was small and pretty fast.
http://getmd5checker.com/download

Hope this helps, and thanks for using Game Front!

I can’t get the MD5 file to download. It keeps giving me a screen like this when I click the link.

http://gyazo.com/842b68f3d7964b684e2b98d9013ec84e

The link broken currently?

@David

Interesting…That’s actually the MD5 hashes you want right there on the page you linked. So you actually don’t need to download it. Just copy those really long strings of characters, run the .7z and the setup.exe through the MD5 checker I linked, and you should be good.

For whatever reason, it doesn’t want to download the md5 for you. It just wants to spit it out right there.

Still got a couple hours until the download for the 2nd file finishes, so I’ll try again to see if it cooperates later. For now I’ll throw the lines of code in notepad. I wonder if there’s a setting on my computer that’s doing it. If it matters I’m on win 7 using IE9

Trying to download the Archive and every time I try to download it, it causes me to disconnect from my internet for a second and it won’t download. Any help on how to download it?

When I ran the installer it said it could not find the BlackMesa.7z file even though I had downloaded it and had all three files in the same folder. I looked at the archive file and it was named Black Mesa.7z with a space between Black and Mesa. I removed the space from the file name and the installer could suddenly find the file and worked. Kind of a weird bug but for anyone else having the problem it worked for me.

I try selecting 16:9 widescreen, but it just pauses for a moment and goes back to 4:3. Suggestions?

I installed it and everything but i cant find where to launch the game someone help me!!!!

“Ben

On September 14, 2012 at 9:36 pm

I installed it and everything but i cant find where to launch the game someone help me!!!!
”

Same here. Installed to Steam folder / steamapps/sourcemods/ BMS

Now how the hell do you run the game, there is only the setup.exe file again as the executable. :/

i can’t seem to get it on my steam libary any help?

Hey, the mod looks great.

I’ve downloaded all three files, and ran the setup files.

However I did not choose to run it at the end of the installation as I was doing other things at the time.

Unfortunately I can’t find any executable files to start it. Looked in the bin folder, in Steam, launched the SDK 2007, etc.

I can’t seem to find any obvious launcher. Any help is appreciated.

The links do “work”, as in you can actually DOWNLOAD the files – but the installer just reports an error. Like EVERY SINGLE OTHER mirror I’ve used from EVERY OTHER SITE. I’m past the point of giving a sh*t any more.

@David

I have the same problem with IE9. I switched to chrome and it worked fine.

Musikid, Ben: I found it in my Steam library. Note that it did not show up until I RESTARTED Steam. Hopefully that works for you too.

Great upload! Thanks for the game!
One question though, after closing it out once, how do I reopen it? I cannot find a shortcut or a file path to open it

All 3 files are in the same folder but I get the message: “Failed to extract files. 7-zip returned error code: 2″

I just downloaded the .exe, .md5 and the archive and put them in the same folder. I did not unzip the archive.

thank you so much Mark and im sorry for my rudeness and stupidity. I literally have been dyeing to play this game and I got mad when I couldnt figure it out. Again thank you so much for helping me out. People like you make this website Great.

I don’t get it, iv’e downloaded the MD5, the Archive and the Installer but when I try to run the setup it says “Could not find blackmesa.7z did you install it? What do I do?

okay so I finally got it to find the archive folder but then it said Error: Cannot open file as archive Failed to extract files. 7-Zip returned error code: 2 and now I have to download everything again I just really don’t understand how to do this so a tutorial would be REALLY REALLY helpful… please!

File number one does not exist. It says file not found.

I’d like some hep, If possible.

Everytime I try to download the MD5 File, I get directed to a blanc screen with this on it

f1d86575816f4c6994a5657eebf76409 *BlackMesa.7z
502b417a7857c3ffb82a8b2c93ee1ecf *BlackMesa-Setup.exe

What have I done wrong?

I’ve installed the SDK required to install/play this. Downloaded the 3 files and ran the installer.. Installs fine.

HOWEVER, I cannot find ANYWHERE to launch the game, there’s nothing in my Steam games, I’ve checked my steam folder and the only .exe in BLACK MESA folder is the installer.

Where is the run game executable?

Feel free to email me at: aaron.knowles.93@gmail.com

Many thanks

This is for people who can not play this game because there is no ion or shortcuts!!

after following institution top of the article.

in steam program…
go to library look for all games and find “Black Mesas” hit play!!

Step by step

***no need for original game!!
install Steam program then make an account!!
Download the game file from this web site!! 3.7GB?

While steam is running unzip the game file to default location!!
click on play after installing is done!!
it will automatically download The 2007 Source SDK. You need SDK to play!!!
After SDK installed Go to Library in steam program.
Find All games from drop down menu!!
Find Black Mesa and click play!!!

i think you get “Lost Coast” and Portal Prelude” like this for free!!

****The reason i did not find the game was because i was stuck on “TOOLS” in library in the drop down menu!!!

After downloading this game i had problem running this game!!! That is the reason i am posting this!!

Step by step

***no need for original game!!
install Steam program then make an account!!
Download the game file from this web site!! 3.7GB?

While steam is running unzip the game file to default location!!
click on play after installing is done!!
it will automatically download The 2007 Source SDK. You need SDK to play!!!
After SDK installed Go to Library in steam program.
Find All games from drop down menu!!
Find Black Mesa and click play!!!

i think you get “Lost Coast” and Portal Prelude” like this for free!!

****The reason i did not find the game was because i was stuck on “TOOLS” in library in the drop down menu!!!

For those of you having the .7z error, I was having it too. I uninstalled WinRAR and tried again this morning and it worked first time. Not sure if that is actually a solve or just dumb luck, but its worth a try if you’re having issues

I didn’t even needed to put them in 1 folder, I just downloaded the 3 of them and when it was done I clicked blackmesa – setup.exe and it did all the work! (btw guys don’t worry, the only file it takes a lot to download is the actual game: blackmesa.7z) Lots of <3 to the guys who worked on this!

I’m getting error 502, bad gateway any time I try to download these. Anyone else?

All the links above either hang or give me an HTTP 502 -Bad Gateway error. Are the files being pulled or is there some sort of site maintenance going on or what?

All the links above either hang or give me an HTTP 502 -Bad Gateway error. Are the files being pulled or is there some sort of site maintenance going on or what?

Never mind, all good

i put the 3 files in a single folder, but my problem continue this message “could not find blackmesa.7z” i try rename but the error continue , help me please, thanks !

@Mark Burnham

I swear I’ve downloaded this three ing times. I’ve put them all in a single folder, I’ve run the setup.exe and nothing. Why can’t the black mesa group just put this up on Steam? It’d make the whole process so much simpler then jumping through all these hoops

@gil no problem!

Thanks Will I had found it in my steam library after reopening steam due to an update for computer. Thanks for you’re help!!! If you want feel free to add me on steam id is: wesleycars. Have a great day!!

If you’re hitting an error page when you try to navigate to the three file pages in the post, CTRL + F5 / refresh a few times. I just saw the same thing and will inform IT, but that fixed it for me and I could download all three.

I need help, every time i download the files, i put all 3 in one folder and run the setup. But it keeps saying, “couldnt find blackmesa.7z, did you download it.” Why does it keep saying this and how can i fix it?

Where do I put the one folder and what do I call it?

Where do I put the folder?

@mark Burnham, it keeps saying that it cant find the blackmesa file when running the setup, do u know whats up with that? and how i can fix it?

@Mark Burnham
Hey Mark. I’m having the same problem as David. When I go to download the MD5 file, I just get the hashes. I downloaded the MD5 checker you recommended and I have the setup.exe and .7z files, but I can’t figure out how to run them through the checker to get everything to work, as you instructed David to do. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!

I tried re-installing winRAR as Oversight suggested but I still get the “Failed to extract files. 7-zip returned error code: 2″ message.

All 3 files are in the same folder and I have Source SDK Base 2007 (pretty sure I wouldn’t need that for the install anyway).

@Dylan.
Sure thing.

1. Open Md5Checker.
2. Click the +Add icon, fourth button from the top left.
3. Browse for wherever you have the blackmesa.7z file, and select it.
4. That’ll get it queued up, and the program will start to analyze the file and then spit out its md5 hash.
5. Now you need to check that against the md5 hash you downloaded from GF. Double click the md5 hash that md5checker spit out. You’ll see a little pop up window. Copy/paste the hash you downloaded into the empty field.
6. If you see the word “same” come up, you’re all good. The file is perfectly intact. If it says “different,” something went wrong with the download and the file is corrupted.

Hope this helps!

One other thing guys.

This may sound obvious, but I highly recommend you download all files on a wired connection, don’t try wireless. If you download it via wi-fi, you’re asking for trouble. If your connection gets interrupted the download will fail.

downloading!

@Mark Burnham

Ok so I have the three files, the setup.exe, the .7z and the .md5, all in one folder, but when I run the setup i get this message:

Processing Archive: blackmesa.7z
Error: Cannot open file as archive
Failed to extract files. 7-Zip returned error code: 2

I’ve tried extracting the .7z with winrar and it tells me it’s corrupt. I’ve downloaded the files over and over again from every available portal and torrent and the same thing happens. From what I’ve seen on forums, other people are having this exact problem and no one has a solution. If you had any suggestions it would be greatly appreciated by many heartbroken gamers.

Thanks for all your help.

If you have problems installing it: DONT extract the rar! Just copy all 3 files (setup.exe, md5 and the big rar file) in on directory and then hit the setup.exe. That solved the problem for me.

Download 3 of 3 doesn’t work for me :/ It comes up with an error code.
f1d86575816f4c6994a5657eebf76409 *BlackMesa.7z
502b417a7857c3ffb82a8b2c93ee1ecf *BlackMesa-Setup.exe
(Note that I understand nothing that is related to code)

For anyone having problems when they have all three files in the same folder: ALWAYS run setup applications in administrator mode.

Hey guys,
I added a troubleshooting tips section to the post. We’ll keep it updated with any other tips we discover. Share your solutions with the rest of us in the comments!

Thanks,
Mark Burnham
Managing Editor, Game Front.

When i download the MD5 file all it is a page with numbers and letters not sure if its downloaded or if i put this in a notepad file or what

I got up to the part with the three headed monster thing and every time i turn on the fan on this part my game just crashes. help?

I’m having the same problem as a few different people, whenever I click to download the Archive my computer loses internet connection. I’m running off a wired connection and it still happens, can anyone help me out?

So, guys… do you have to have the original Half-Life in order to use the mod?
I mean, I would assume but I wanna make sure.

What programs do I use to run 7z and md5?

Hey, I keep getting the error during installation that the set-up could not find the archive. I have 7z and everything’s in one folder. The archive, the .md5 file, the set-up launcher, I ran it as administrator. Still nothing though. Any ideas?

Also I have checked the .md5 tags and they are all good. The set-up just doesn’t want to install the archive.

Scratch that. I had named the file blackmasa. Stupid clerical error. It’s installed now and in my steam library. Long Live the Freeman!

Every time I try to download file 3 of 3 I get a blank page that displays only this test
f1d86575816f4c6994a5657eebf76409 *BlackMesa.7z
502b417a7857c3ffb82a8b2c93ee1ecf *BlackMesa-Setup.exe
What do I do?

Do i need half life 2?

Do i need half life 2 to download help

do i need to have half life 2 on my pc thanks

PC gaming is a pain in the ass. Why didn’t Valve just put the damn game up on Steam for free. They already made a bajillion dollars off the Half Life Series. Agggggh. I just wanna play the damn game, not take a course in how to write code. 20 min. to download, 20 min to extract, and I still can’t get it to work. All I know is: there’s 7 gigs of a kick-ass game in my computer right now that I’m not playing.

Black mesa Md5 When i dont load it it wont work it pops up this
f1d86575816f4c6994a5657eebf76409 *BlackMesa.7z
502b417a7857c3ffb82a8b2c93ee1ecf *BlackMesa-Setup.exe

Yes. . Yes.

Dude just create a folder and then you drag those 3 files to the new folder then click on the setup. voila simple as it is right?

You need all of these-

Download the Black Mesa Installer Here
Download the Black Mesa Archive Here
Download the Black Mesa MD5 Here

Download them all and apparently you need to put them all in one folder (not sure if that’s folders within folders or cut and paste contents into one folder)

@MarkBurnham
Thanks for all your help, Mark. There is one problem though. Everyone seems to be receiving the “Error Code:2 Cannot extract blackmesa.7z” issue. I have already checked the hashes on the MD5 and the code passed the test. I have my (3) files in one folder. What is the problem and how can I fix this? Step-by-step instructions would be LOVELY.

Everyone! I downloaded Black Mesa on my Windows 7 laptop here are the steps for a successful installation:
1. Download the 2007 Source SDK (You can find the link to the download on this page or in your Steam module look for Steam/Tools/2007 Source SDK [It might automatically download 2006 Source SDK as well but that's not a big deal.]
2. On Gamefront, download the Half-Life 2 Mod (1 of 3) also known as the blackmesa.7z file. DO NOT EXTRACT YOURSELF. The File size should be 3220800KB
3. Download the Half-life 2 Mod (2 of 3) also known as the blackmesa-setup.exe DO NOT run this program yet.
4. Download the Half-life 2 Mod 93 of 3) also known as blackmesa.md5
5. Now find the three (3) files you just downloaded and place them all under a same folder. I placed mine under “c:/programfiles/steam/steamapps/sourcemods
6.Now run the blackmesa-setuo.exe. do this by double-clicking on the icon where you just placed the 3 files or by right-clicking on the icon and selecting “Run program”.

Hope that helps!

As it uses Source, will it work on a Mac? “Source SDK Base 2007″ is available….

Stupid me… forget that. Source SDK is >NOT< available for Mac platform

Where the heck is ZEN???

I was also getting nothing but two lines of text for the MD5 file – I decided to see what would happen if I installed with only the first two files downloaded. It worked fine.

I can’t get the game to install once iv put all the files into one folder

I keep getting a file error every time I try to install it but when I put it in its own folder it say’s did you download it. Any answers Plz help

downloaded 2 files third is the link you mention.
now now you saying we gota download some sumcheck program so we can get this to work some how.
i just spent an hour downloading and fiddling with this (there has to be a better way)

The MD5 is not working , it says is 101MB but this is all that shows

f1d86575816f4c6994a5657eebf76409 *BlackMesa.7z
502b417a7857c3ffb82a8b2c93ee1ecf *BlackMesa-Setup.exe

1.- Download STEAM and install it.
2.- in STEAM install “source SDK BASE 2007″
3.- Download hte 3 parts od BLACK MESA = EXE, 7zip and MD5 in one folder.
4.- Run the exe
5.- Play

Im having a little trouble like everyone else, the setup keeps on saying ‘could not find BlackMesa. 7z—- did you download it?’ I put the 3 files into 1 but nothing changed. Pls help cause other people have this problem as well as me.

Can’t wait for this to be finished and on steam.. im holding off barely, until its done

I need some serious help. I really enjoyed playing Half Life 1 and really want to play this. I have downloaded the 7-Zip files, i don’t know where i should extract those to. I also need help with the MD5, my computer says I need to find a program to download in order to open it or choose from a list of programs. I have no idea what to do there, AS for the installing part, i should be fine

I tried to download the MD5 file and I got a blank page with this on it.

f1d86575816f4c6994a5657eebf76409 *BlackMesa.7z
502b417a7857c3ffb82a8b2c93ee1ecf *BlackMesa-Setup.exe

It wont download anything so there’s no way to get the third file. Is there anything I can do?

Why is this so ing complicated? It can’t be this hard. Someone is a lazy .

Hi,
i downloaded, installed and even played the game. Once I saved and quit, I am unable to find the game on my pc or create a shortcut for it. I know I’m being vague, but any help?

@BLACKBEARD Try downloading the MD5 with a different browser. Other uses have reported success doing that.

But in any case, those really long strings of characters are actually the MD5 hashes you need. You can copy/paste them to a doc, and use the program mentioned in the troubleshooting tips above to check them against the files you downloaded.

Even without the MD5 file in the folder, when you run the setup.exe file it should install fine. If it downloaded intact, that is.

Thanks for using Game Front!

learn to consolidate the file into 1….what is this 1990?

I downloaded 1/3 fine (biggest file) now 2/3 says “did you download this?” and I caa’t find the files. I have windows 7

Also the 3/3 is just some two lined internet file that i make zero sense of. please please help me

im in the middle of downloading the zip, but as i look at all the comments i see a lot of people having trouble, if i get it to work would you like me to make a video explaining how to do it?

can´t start it in steam everything else worked fine

I hate steam how do I restart it and how can I find the game?

can anyone summarize how to install the game upon downloading the installer??
thank u

Ok, I did this:
1. Download STEAM client from the Steam/ Valve website.
2. I restarted STEAM just to be sure.
3. Then I downloaded BLACK MESA from SOFTONIC WEBSITE.
4.Blackmesa7z, Md5, & Black Mesa set-up are downloaded automatically into their BM folder.
5. I took those 3 files (BMesa7z, Md5, & set-up) & placed them in my STEAM /STEAMAPPS/ *SOURCEMODS folder on my computer.

6. I clicked SET-UP & nothing else. STEAM automatically read/extracted everything.
7. Black Mesa installed/loaded/ was able to be play.
8. I saw LAUNCH BLACK MESA button in my GAMES LIBRARY on STEAM. Whenever I want to launch the game, I have to go there.

The MD5 link doesn’t work ? Where can I DL this file please ?

Woohoo!

I got the ‘Could not find BlackMesa.7z — did you download it?’ error at first.. I was running the file directly through the download in utorrent. I ran the same .exe directly from explorer and it worked.. not sure what kind of sense that makes, but.. it worked.

1) Download the archive.
2) Download the setup.
3) Download the .MD5

AFTER

1) Create a folder in your desktop (name Black Mesa)
2) Place in this folder the archive, setup and .MD5
3) Launch in admin the setup.

los 3 link estan caidos

how can u get Black mesa on mac can someone tell me and place a reply?

Can someone give me Instructions on how to download Black mesa. i have source SDK 2007 and also have downloaded every file but it comes up with a bunch of codes. can someone please reply?

I downloaded all Black Mesa 3 files and it installs on my computer now when I tried to download 2007 Source SDK, it is actually more than 3 GB of file. My internet connection speed is very slow..
Is there any way to run this game without this source..

I have downloaded everything and installed it on my computer. I played this game after finishing the setup. After quitting this game, I am unable to see this game in my steam library.
Can you tell me that how can I play this game second time and from where to play this game.
Can anybody help?

I am trying to run it on the Winebottler program on a Mac and it doesn’t seem to be showing up in Steam and the installation seems to work perfectly fine, but it doesn’t show up as a separate game file in my downloads section either, please help? And no I will not “Get a PC”.