Question about steam.

[cheese_wizington]

As the steam forums are COMPLETELY useless, I'm turning to you guys.

I downloaded fallout 3 from steam, but then uninstalled it so I could download it to a documents folder. When I started downloading it switched from downloading to uploading. When the uploading reached 100 %, I clicked launch the game, to which it promptly did.

But, the launcher only contained the "install icon", so I clicked it; to which it said, " Cannot install; please try and find fallout 3 installer.exe and install from there."

So what I'm wondering is, why is steam not automatically installing Fallout 3 like last time.

 

[Pimppeter2]

Because it is for teh sucks

(Sorry, I hate digital distribution)

 

[cheese_wizington]

^That was dreadfully unhelpful.

 

[slowpoke999]

Just get it on disc where it has no chance of getting scratched or lost or stolen or broken.

OH WAIT.

IDk just uninstall and reinstall?

 

[Shru1kan]

Well, I hate to say it, but I think you're royally screwed.

This is why I strongly advise a PHYSICAL copy of the game, which you back up with a free program like alcohol 52% and then can play without the disc.

Now you have 2 copies. You installed one yourself, not trusting an iffy program to do it for you. You have a digital, disc saving copy that you play from, and have the physical disc if something terrible happens.

EDIT:: Fixed a grammatical error that could make the entire second half of my reply incomprehensible.

 

[Flying-Emu]

Since nobody is actually willing to try and help you apart from berating you for not getting a physical copy...

You can't download to a Documents folder. Steam runs all its games THROUGH its service; therefore, the file has to be where it expects it to. In C:/Program Files/Steam/whatever.

 

[quiet_samurai]

It can only be installed into the steam folder, not one of your choosing.

 

[Brok3n Halo]

Ditto to what Flying-Emu and quiet_samurai said. But if you really want it in that folder for some reason, you can just install Steam there.

And too those of you complaining about Steam: It's much more likely to lose or permanently damage a disc then for something to seriously go wrong with a digital distribution install. If you going to complain about digital distribution, use a valid argument. Such as limited ownership in that you lose ownership of the game if the company goes out of business or loses their user database, and etc. Or that you need an active internet connection to install and in same cases play those games.

That being said, I use Steam for convenience all the time. Way I figure it, if I buy a game on Steam chances are I'll forever be done with it by time they fold. In fact, it's very likely that whatever computer I have in the future will be unable to play any game I play today well before I lose the game's license for some reason. I only buy disc copies of PC games if they come with cool extras. Like Fallout 3 did actually. Lunchbox and clock FTW!