First time player of Silent Hunter 4 here

pmcmull · 05-26-24, 08:30 PM

I have generally found Steam to be a good place to run and organize games. If you have a disk disaster, like I had, you just have to install Steam again and get logged in, then you can download and re-install anything you have purchased. And it makes a handy place to find everything. If you want to point it to an alternate location for your library, on another disk volume, it cooperates with that.

Now to discontinuing titles. I have not experienced that, not yet at least. But if one has copied the full program folder to any location, and runs it directly from there. Like one needs to do for games with mods such as Silent Hunter 3 or 4. I don't see any way Steam can track it down and delete it, or disable it. They can't search all my computer drives for software. Can they ?

1Patriotofmany · 05-28-24, 11:54 AM

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Originally Posted by pmcmull

I have generally found Steam to be a good place to run and organize games. If you have a disk disaster, like I had, you just have to install Steam again and get logged in, then you can download and re-install anything you have purchased. And it makes a handy place to find everything. If you want to point it to an alternate location for your library, on another disk volume, it cooperates with that.

Now to discontinuing titles. I have not experienced that, not yet at least. But if one has copied the full program folder to any location, and runs it directly from there. Like one needs to do for games with mods such as Silent Hunter 3 or 4. I don't see any way Steam can track it down and delete it, or disable it. They can't search all my computer drives for software. Can they ?

I suppose one way to test it, would be disconnect your computer from the internet and try to play a game from the programs startup file. I'm gonna try running a few games on win7 which Steam apparently does support anymore.

1Patriotofmany · 06-10-24, 05:13 PM

Just to expand, I didn't have internet for two days, my SH4 mods worked independently of Steam being available. I suppose it might depend on which steam games you have, but doesn't affect SH4 from my experience. I should have tried a bunch of them to see which ones were dependent. Of course I could just disconnect the lan cable and find out..

05-26-24, 08:30 PM	#1
pmcmull Bosun Join Date: Aug 2023 Location: Phoenix AZ Posts: 66 Downloads: 46 Uploads: 0	Steam games I have generally found Steam to be a good place to run and organize games. If you have a disk disaster, like I had, you just have to install Steam again and get logged in, then you can download and re-install anything you have purchased. And it makes a handy place to find everything. If you want to point it to an alternate location for your library, on another disk volume, it cooperates with that. Now to discontinuing titles. I have not experienced that, not yet at least. But if one has copied the full program folder to any location, and runs it directly from there. Like one needs to do for games with mods such as Silent Hunter 3 or 4. I don't see any way Steam can track it down and delete it, or disable it. They can't search all my computer drives for software. Can they ?

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06-10-24, 05:13 PM	#3
1Patriotofmany Samurai Navy Join Date: Jul 2017 Posts: 574 Downloads: 111 Uploads: 0	Just to expand, I didn't have internet for two days, my SH4 mods worked independently of Steam being available. I suppose it might depend on which steam games you have, but doesn't affect SH4 from my experience. I should have tried a bunch of them to see which ones were dependent. Of course I could just disconnect the lan cable and find out..