This is sweet. 90% of the time I go to play a game, I’m doing it through the Steam launcher, not through the Start Menu or even the Vista games folder (good idea, but still a bit clunky).
It turns out that you can add non-steam games (I just added EVE Online, C&C General, and Dawn of War – one of which technically I could have bought on Steam) to the games list. If you’re in your small games window and you click on the Games menu, you’ll see the option to “Add a non-Steam game to My Games list…”
And if you click on that, it brings up a self-populating list of what looks like every executable that Steam can find:
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does it record the time you spent playing the game and show it in your steam profile? that would be neat… i have a bunch of games that i didnt buy on steam, but are available on steam now. would be great if my steam profile could display stats from those games as well
I honestly don’t know. I’d bet that the chances are slim…
ya, checked , it doesn’t seem to do it for non steam-installed games
Yes, Steam records the time you spent playing non steam games. It’s great! :-)
And more, Steam advise your Friends that you are playing one non Steam game, like Steam games. But in your profile Steam doesn’t list them despite records your playing time.
Its sad that games that are on Steam now they cant be added properly. I have Medieval II : Total War and I lost the disk. Obviously I dont want it to happen again, and the only way for me to make it certain that It wont happen again in by buying it on steam, but I cant. (Parents)
ani zarih orada!
There is a way to do it but not 100% safe you can add the game to flash drive put file in steam>games——–But 1 out 100% it is a 75% chance of working also put the launcher in the steam games to also did not work the 1st time for me file got mixed up so have a back up file game two
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