Subj : The Disney+ price hike ha To : Accession From : Nightfox Date : Sun Oct 12 2025 01:38:32 Re: The Disney+ price hike ha By: Accession to Nightfox on Thu Oct 09 2025 06:10 pm >> I'm pretty sure you can run the game executable directly if you wanted to. Ac> Try it. Hell, try to find the actual game executable and original game Ac> directory structure, even (especially if you install to default Steam Ac> directories). It's so intertwined into Steams subdirectories That's not hard to do.. The quickets way is to open your Steam library, right-click on one of the games you have installed, and select Manage > Browse Local Files. It opens a Windows Explorer window in the directory with the game, and the .exe and everything is right there. The game is in Steam Library\steamapps\common\.. Doesn't seem terribly complicated to me. >> At least, I've run several Steam games that way. Steam doesn't obfuscate >> the game's files. I thought Steam put a shortcut icon on your desktop for >> the games, too.. Ac> It optionally can, yes. However, using said desktop icon still loads up Ac> Steam (same goes for any other launcher said games are tied to) to launch Looks like that's true.. I checked one of the shortcuts and it runs Steam with some kind of game ID. >> The launching from Steam is just a convenience, I thought. Ac> I'm not so sure about that. I imagine there's probably some kind of Ac> exclusivity to where you can't just use any launcher for any game you Ac> want. If the launcher comes with the game, thay're going to make sure you Ac> can't bypass it, etc.. Ac> Either way, I don't think you can run the games you buy from a service Ac> like Steam or Ubisoft without the actual service you bought it from. Even Ac> if you were to find the actual executable, I'd guess it would still load Ac> the launcher that is originally tied to the game. I just ran one of my Steam games by directly running its .exe (after clicking Manage > Browse Local Files). It still seems to me like Steam is mainly a mechanism to buy games.. I'm not sure it does much (if any) obfuscation to prevent you from running them directly. Nightfox --- þ Synchronet þ Digital Distortion: digitaldistortionbbs.com .