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[Half-Life 2] Change language (interface, audio and subtitles)

By Allower ⁧⁧✔

This guide is designed to help you play the game with language settings, regardless of the language that is selected in the Steam interface settings.

This guide will also allow you to play with setting text in one language and audio in another.

For example: you can choose German for text and Spanish for voice acting, and Chinese for subtitles.

The launch options presented in this guide completely ignore Steam settings, which means that you will need to select the desired audio language in the game properties or in the game options through the main menu. Because the game requires language audio files.

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Follow this steps:

Exit from Half-Life 2
Go to Steam > LIBRARY > select Half-Life 2 > click right mouse button on it
Choose Properties… > on General tab you must look at LAUNCH OPTIONS text box
On LAUNCH OPTIONS text box just type/or copy/paste -language
Example:
-language german
This option will make the text language of the game menu and subtitles in German

(including the user interface, for example the text with the inscription “Health”, as well as the names of weapons and everything else that the user sees directly in the game itself)
A little higher we have a line with a drop-down menu called Language; in Half-Life 2 it only changes the audio language. You can select the desired audio language from this menu.
On LAUNCH OPTIONS text box just type/or copy/paste -audiolanguage
Example:
-audiolanguage spanish
This option will change all characters' voices to Spanish, including your H.E.V. Suit.
On LAUNCH OPTIONS text box just type/or copy/paste +cc_lang
Example:
+cc_lang russian
This option will change the language of all subtitles to Russian

In conclusion, you will have a menu and interface language in German, a character voice language and H.E.V. Suit is in Spanish (if you selected Spanish in the language selection drop-down menu above) and the subtitle language is in Russian
This code can be combined like this:
-language german -audiolanguage spanish +cc_lang russian
Below is a complete list of languages that are available in Half-Life 2.

Important note: Half-Life 2 does not have most audio languages; In most cases you will only have interface and subtitles available.

Important note: In some cases, you will need to completely shut down the Steam program itself and then launch Steam again.

Via the menu «Steam» > «Exit» or via right-clicking on the Steam's icon on the system tray.

This will help if the Half-Life 2 language has not changed!

You simply take and copy the parameters you need for the launch options:

Supported Languages

28 LANGUAGES

INTERFACE

AUDIO

SUBTITLES

English

-language english

-audiolanguage english

+cc_lang english

French

-language french

-audiolanguage french

+cc_lang french

German

-language german

-audiolanguage german

+cc_lang german

Italian

-language italian

-audiolanguage italian

+cc_lang italian

Korean

-language korean

-audiolanguage korean

+cc_lang korean

Spanish - Spain

-language spanish

-audiolanguage spanish

+cc_lang spanish

Russian

-language russian

-audiolanguage russian

+cc_lang russian

Simplified Chinese

-language schinese

-audiolanguage schinese

+cc_lang schinese

Traditional Chinese

-language tchinese

-audiolanguage tchinese

+cc_lang tchinese

Dutch

-language dutch

+cc_lang dutch

Danish

-language danish

+cc_lang danish

Finnish

-language finnish

+cc_lang finnish

Japanese

-language japanese

+cc_lang japanese

Norwegian

-language norwegian

+cc_lang norwegian

Polish

-language polish

+cc_lang polish

Portuguese - Portugal

-language portuguese

+cc_lang portuguese

Swedish

-language swedish

+cc_lang swedish

Thai

-language thai

+cc_lang thai

Hungarian

-language hungarian

+cc_lang hungarian

Czech

-language czech

+cc_lang czech

Romanian

-language romanian

+cc_lang romanian

Turkish

-language turkish

+cc_lang turkish

Portuguese - Brazil

-language brazilian

+cc_lang brazilian

Bulgarian

-language bulgarian

+cc_lang bulgarian

Greek

-language greek

+cc_lang greek

Ukrainian

-language ukrainian

+cc_lang ukrainian

Vietnamese

-language vietnamese

+cc_lang vietnamese

Spanish - Latin America

-language latam

+cc_lang latam

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[Source Engine] Change language for all supported games on Source]

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27 Comments

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Allower ⁧⁧✔ [author] 11 Apr @ 10:06am

@ϟhaitan , однако если тебе нужно поменять просто на язык который отличается от языка твоего Steam клиента. Ты можешь глянуть этот гайд - https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=949154126

Такой способ сработает почти в любой игре, однако тебе нужны цифры id твоей игры, где ты хочешь поменять язык. Цифры айдишника игры можно узнать непосредственно на её странице в магазине Steam (они будут в адресной строке) или в свойствах в библиотеке.

Allower ⁧⁧✔ [author] 11 Apr @ 10:00am

@ϟhaitan , на своём опыте скажу, что в большинстве случаев у других игр были свои параметры и настройки. А где-то и вовсе необходимо тупо заменять файлы одной локализацией, другими. К примеру что бы сделать английский текст и русский звук.

Allower ⁧⁧✔ [author] 11 Apr @ 9:55am

@ϟhaitan , может быть, но это не точно, вообще зависит от того какие api используются при чтении параметра "-language", если за это отвечает steam_api.dll, тогда вероятно разработчики другой игры могли применять его.

Точно скажу что "+cc_lang" нет, ибо это чисто консольная команда для языка субтитров в играх на Source. В Half-Life 2: Update и Black Mesa, параметр "-language" не работает, что опять же подтверждает что это зависит от разработчика игры, а не от движка, т.к. это тоже игры Source.

SShaitan 10 Apr @ 6:44pm

does this work on other games or only on those which made on source?

Allower ⁧⁧✔ [author] 2 Apr @ 5:29pm

@Toma , yes, unfortunately as the commenter below said, there is no Arabic language:

trk305 24 Nov, 2024 @ 5:02pm
-language doesn't work with arabic.. damn

Half-Life 2 doesn't really have an official Arabic localization.

Sniper Noob 1 Apr @ 9:59pm

All fucking languages expect arabic

Allower ⁧⁧✔ [author] 9 Mar @ 6:10am

Important note: In some cases, you will need to completely shut down the Steam program itself and then launch Steam again.

Via the menu «Steam» > «Exit» or via right-clicking on the Steam's icon on the system tray .

This will help if the Half-Life 2 language has not changed!

Allower ⁧⁧✔ [author] 9 Mar @ 5:58am

@qwek(!) , в консоль внутри игры, заместо параметров запуска в Steam?
Благодарю за положительный отзыв!

qwek(!) 15 Feb @ 7:40am

аа емае я думала надо чтоб команда ввелась прям, просто раньше вводита она у меня пропадала хз. спасибо за гайд

Allower ⁧⁧✔ [author] 14 Feb @ 10:38am

If something doesn't work out, feel free to ask questions. As soon as I see your comment, I will try to help you as soon as I have time for it.

Если что-то не получается, смело задавайте вопросы. Как только я увижу ваш комментарий, я постараюсь вам помочь, как только у меня появится на это время.

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