Getting Steamed

[Meandmine]

When I try to find where my Steam games are installed, I can't find them. I was wondering if uninstalling Steam and reinstalling it would help. However, I don't know if this would help, or cause my games to uninstall themselves. Any pointers?

[Tomlong54210]

When I try to find where my Steam games are installed, I can't find them. I was wondering if uninstalling Steam and reinstalling it would help. However, I don't know if this would help, or cause my games to uninstall themselves. Any pointers?

As far as I know, games installed through Steam are installed in the Steam folder, and Steam is installed in Program Files, like everything else.

[Meandmine]

When I try to find where my Steam games are installed, I can't find them. I was wondering if uninstalling Steam and reinstalling it would help. However, I don't know if this would help, or cause my games to uninstall themselves. Any pointers?

As far as I know, games installed through Steam are installed in the Steam folder, and Steam is installed in Program Files, like everything else.

I installed Steam into a different file, but when I look in the file, there are no games.

 

*edit*

I got it, it was in Steam/steamapps/common/fallout 3 goty

[Tomlong54210]

When I try to find where my Steam games are installed, I can't find them. I was wondering if uninstalling Steam and reinstalling it would help. However, I don't know if this would help, or cause my games to uninstall themselves. Any pointers?

As far as I know, games installed through Steam are installed in the Steam folder, and Steam is installed in Program Files, like everything else.

I installed Steam into a different file, but when I look in the file, there are no games.

If you reinstalled Steam, you have to reinstall the games.

[madgamer]

Thanks to Fonger I can be a little more specific. When installing a new game or program on a computer, you usually are asked to agree to a legal agreement and disclaimer(EULA). After you click on yes most programs will ask you "where" you would like the program to be installed-This is the install path. Almost every program will install into C:Program Files\<company name>\<program name>. On Windows Vista and 7 Microsoft added a security program called User Account Controls (UAC). While this program prevents software you do not want on your P.C.from automatically installing,it does interfere with any Game that you can change with mods. The easiest way to avoid UAC stopping your game from working and keeping the security it provides is to install games or the program needed to run them like Steam someplace different on your hard drive. So you can edit the install path by changing Program Files to Games, I would change the install path to C:Games\<company name>\<program name> before I click on install. A program installed this way works exactly the way it is supposed to, but you avoid ctd's and mods not working because of UAC "thinking" it is protecting you from malware. If you change the install path of Steam to C:Games\Steam instead of C:Program Files\Steam, all the programs you download to work with Steam should install into Your Steam folder in "Games" instead of someplace where they will be stopped from working correctly.

 

I am using the 32 bit version. Can I just go to my steam /Oblivion and install the MOD's and stuff?

 

 

My post says it all...I am such a computer dope and did not understand much of what you said but I hope to have a friend over who will be able to show me how to get this going. I am having the same problems as playing regular Oblivion before I got the level slow MOD, the Quest level MOD, the larger inventory MOD and some others. It looks like as I am using win 7 32 bit as we could not get many of the games I like to run even in the X86 mode and using C;titles without the word program.

 

thank you for your hard work and I will save the post for my friend if he ever gets here

 

Madgamer (SIGH)

 

thanks Madgamer

Yes. Steam is only special in its location, as far as using most mods is concerned. You should reinstall Steam outside of the Program Files folder to avoid the most trouble. That is what the other users were suggesting. One thing to watch out for are OBSE-dependent mods. OBSE supports Steam, but you have to make sure to turn on the Steam Communities In-Game Setting.

 

OBSE - http://tesivpositive.animolious.com/index.php?page=obse <-- read this

Intro to Modified Oblivion - http://tesivpositive.animolious.com/index.php?page=intro_to_mods <-- You may want to start here, and then go to

Preparing for Mods - http://tesivpositive.animolious.com/index.php?page=preparing_for_mods <-- After preparing your setup for mods

Downloading Mods - http://tesivpositive.animolious.com/index.php?page=downloading_mods <-- Then you can install them

Installing Mods - http://tesivpositive.animolious.com/index.php?page=installing_mods <-- One more step and you can run

Finishing the Installation - http://tesivpositive.animolious.com/index.php?page=finishing_the_installation

 

Other tips:

Running Oblivion - http://tesivpositive.animolious.com/index.php?page=running_oblivion

Oblivion.ini Tweaks - http://tesivpositive.animolious.com/index.php?page=oblivion_ini_tweaks

[Tomlong54210]

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