Ok, surely others must have similar thoughts..
I have a few games that are on Steam.
HalfLife, HL2, Episode 1 and Episode 2 and CounterStrike etc etc etc, all source
Now, Half Life 2 and Episode 1 I have as DVD.
So, I can install those games by Disk or by Steam over the internet.
The others I must do over the internet.
Ok, this is fine. I can go with that.
Now, I also have a few other games too!
Dawn Of War : SoulStorm
Dawn of War II
UnReal Tournament 3
Now, my problem is this...
I had SouldStorm, and Dawn Of War 2 and UT3 all installed from their DVDs and yet, in my steam list, they did not show up as installed.
Now, one irritating thing is that Dawn Of War 2 was showing up in the Steam list and I never added it to it, it did it itself. I have since added UT3 and SoulStorm, but I did not add DOW2. That I think is a little naughty, but there you go, its done.
So, back to the games, the yare installed but according to Steam they are not?
If I want Steam to see the games as installed, then I have to do it through downloading them all through steam.
WHY?
Now, if I wanted to add a steam game from DVD, I can add " -install X: " to teh steam.exe and I have tried this with Episode 1 and that did work, but thats also a Steam DVD, but it wont work with any of those other 3?
As a kinf os experiment, I have installed UT3 off the disk and the Steam and I have 2 copies of the game now on the disk... Not good news for such a massive game.
So, I have only 2 options left to me now...
1 - Use Steam only and accept that whenever I do an F&R on my system, I am not only going to have to download a billion Terrabytes because of Vistas updates, but also to reinstall my steam games Im going to also have to download close to 30GB too!
2 - Get steam to Completely forget my games and for Steam to not have control of those games anymore!?
How can I do that?
Ah, I dont know.
I have a few games that are on Steam.
HalfLife, HL2, Episode 1 and Episode 2 and CounterStrike etc etc etc, all source
Now, Half Life 2 and Episode 1 I have as DVD.
So, I can install those games by Disk or by Steam over the internet.
The others I must do over the internet.
Ok, this is fine. I can go with that.
Now, I also have a few other games too!
Dawn Of War : SoulStorm
Dawn of War II
UnReal Tournament 3
Now, my problem is this...
I had SouldStorm, and Dawn Of War 2 and UT3 all installed from their DVDs and yet, in my steam list, they did not show up as installed.
Now, one irritating thing is that Dawn Of War 2 was showing up in the Steam list and I never added it to it, it did it itself. I have since added UT3 and SoulStorm, but I did not add DOW2. That I think is a little naughty, but there you go, its done.
So, back to the games, the yare installed but according to Steam they are not?
If I want Steam to see the games as installed, then I have to do it through downloading them all through steam.
WHY?
Now, if I wanted to add a steam game from DVD, I can add " -install X: " to teh steam.exe and I have tried this with Episode 1 and that did work, but thats also a Steam DVD, but it wont work with any of those other 3?
As a kinf os experiment, I have installed UT3 off the disk and the Steam and I have 2 copies of the game now on the disk... Not good news for such a massive game.
So, I have only 2 options left to me now...
1 - Use Steam only and accept that whenever I do an F&R on my system, I am not only going to have to download a billion Terrabytes because of Vistas updates, but also to reinstall my steam games Im going to also have to download close to 30GB too!
2 - Get steam to Completely forget my games and for Steam to not have control of those games anymore!?
How can I do that?
Ah, I dont know.