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Article #698023Re: Top 20 Steam Games
From: Spalls Hurgenson
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2017 13:29
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2017 13:29
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On Thu, 29 Jun 2017 20:28:41 +0000 (UTC), rri...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Ross Ridge) wrote: >Dimensional Traveler <dtr...@sonic.net> wrote: >>Its linked "enough" that it tracks the number of hours I've played it >>and when I last played it. > >It only tracks those things if you start it from Steam client. You can >bypass the client completely by just running the program "dosbox.exe" >in the game's install directory. It's not copy protected so you can >also copy it somewhere else and uninstall the Steam client if you want. I can confirm that. I'm building a DOSBox and rather than fiddle with my old diskimages I just downloaded the steam version and transferred the game files (sans their DOSBox stuff) to my installation. Runs like a charm, and the game has no idea it originally was associated with my Steam account (not that it did /before/ I did the transfer either ;-). For time played, Steam tracks when you launch the executable through its interface (and when that executable terminates) and calculates the time based on those difference between two deltas. Technically, it could even do this with non-Steam games you've added to your library, although IIRC it doesn't actually display the time for those programs.
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