Moving from Steam to Stand Alone Without Rebuying

[Alexandros]

I want to free up precious SSD space so I want to get the game's stand alone version which unlike Steam gives you the option to not install the 32bit version of the game files. I don't want to just delete the 32bit folder because on the next patch Steam will want to reinstall it all anyway and require the space which I may have used for something else by then leading to having to juggle installations and files across drives to get it done.

SOLUTION:

Originally posted by Agony_Aunt:

Just get the launcher from FD's site. Install, enter your FD credentials

Jeez, thanks. That's so simple and seems to work (I'm installing Horizons 64bit atm).

Yet they don't make it clear you can just do this anywhere in your account, it doesn't list downloadable products or owned products or anything else! Thanks, you rule.

Got the launcher from elitedangerous.com, top right, downloads.

ORIGINAL POST:
Anyway, I've been trying for the past half hour to figure this out and I can't. I logged in my Frontier account with the same account I play the game through Steam. I then linked my Steam account, for some reason that wasn't already done even though it's the account I login when I play through Steam. Anyway, it shows Elite Dangerous and the Horizon Season Pass in my orders history in 2015 or whatever.

But it doesn't show the actual games anywhere else for me. They are not under downloadable products, they are not in purchased Steam entitlements, they are not anywhere, it's like I don't own them outside having them in the orders page.

I generated Steam keys in the third party keys page but apparently that's for a wholly different function or something unrelated to what I'm trying to do anyway, they're like dud Steam keys for people to register the game on Steam but still need to have bought them through Frontier to be actually able to play after login.

What am I doing wrong, or is it just not possible to get it stand alone without rebuying?

Thanks in advance.

I guess the ideal case would be for Frontier to give us the 32bit or 64bit only option on Steam, either through having the same launcher options as the stand alone or by separating the game to different entries in our library, one for the old 32bit client, one for the new 64 bit, so we don't have to have both and then some for no good reason...

[Swans]

I do not know if there's a better way of doing this, but I used this link to get the native launcher: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=62562

It's an old link but the launcher self-updated to the latest release. You can select the relevant SKU for install this way. I used this when away from home over rather iffy mobile Internet.

Others may have better ideas of course as this seems somewhat convoluted.

[Agony_Aunt]

Just get the launcher from FD's site. Install, enter your FD credentials, and you should be good to go.

[Alexandros]

Originally posted by Agony_Aunt:

Just get the launcher from FD's site. Install, enter your FD credentials, and you should be good

Jeez, thanks. That's so simple and seems to work (I'm installing Horizons 64bit atm).

Yet they don't make it clear you can just do this anywhere in your account, it doesn't list downloadable products or owned products or anything else! Thanks, you rule.

Got the launcher from elitedangerous.com, top right, downloads.

[Swans]

Originally posted by Alexandros:

Originally posted by Agony_Aunt:

Just get the launcher from FD's site. Install, enter your FD credentials, and you should be good

Jeez, thanks. That's so simple and seems to work (I'm installing Horizons 64bit atm).

Yet they don't make it clear you can just do this anywhere in your account, it doesn't list downloadable products or owned products or anything else! Thanks, you rule.

Got the launcher from elitedangerous.com, top right, downloads.

Ah, nice one, I also did not see this up there. That link is the same as the one in the forum post I managed to locate but I just didn't see it.

Thank you both.

[Konscience]

You can also install on whichever disk you want with steam: and then just launch the launcher, it doesn't require steam istelf...

[Turd Ferguson]

Originally posted by Konscience:

You can also install on whichever disk you want with steam: and then just launch the launcher, it doesn't require steam istelf...

steam installs the (soon to be deprecated) 32 bit version and keeps reinstalling it every time there's an update. Also not sure if Steam version downloads the betas.

[Konscience]

steam install the launcher, so you just don't need to launch steam again (or if you do, set the game to not update until you launch it "through steam" and he will never install the 32 bit again.
The launcher steam does install is able to update himself. This launcher is also able to DL the betas versions, VR version and 32bit version as you need them It's the same imo, just downloaded through steam instead of the Frontier website...

[HamakiBCN2]

Gotta say it...

OP asks a question, gets and answer, and not only OP gives thanks, but also OP EDITS ORIGINAL POST WITH THE GIVEN SOLUTION SO THAT OTHERS with the same problem DON'T HAVE TO CHECK THE WHOLE THREAD.

I don't know about you guys but in my opinion OP won the Internets today.

[Agony_Aunt]

Originally posted by HamakiBCN2:

Gotta say it...

OP asks a question, gets and answer, and not only OP gives thanks, but also OP EDITS ORIGINAL POST WITH THE GIVEN SOLUTION SO THAT OTHERS with the same problem DON'T HAVE TO CHECK THE WHOLE THREAD.

I don't know about you guys but in my opinion OP won the Internets today.

Word!

[Harichi]

ED really doesn't need to be on an SSD. The loading times are really short and the only thing that needs to load are the shaders and an SSD probably doesn't affect the shaders loading.

[Turd Ferguson]

Originally posted by ATTILAAAA:

ED really doesn't need to be on an SSD. The loading times are really short and the only thing that needs to load are the shaders and an SSD probably doesn't affect the shaders loading.

yup. once its loaded your "loading" bottleneck is network not disk.

[Agony_Aunt]

Originally posted by ATTILAAAA:

ED really doesn't need to be on an SSD. The loading times are really short and the only thing that needs to load are the shaders and an SSD probably doesn't affect the shaders loading.

Yeah, i moved it onto a SSD and apart from slightly faster loading times i notice no real difference in game.

[Dark_Absinth [ESP]]

Will this prevent you from using SteamVR and allow the VR version of the game to run in OculusVR client? I am having some stuttering problems and I want to run the game with the Oculus client to see if the game runs better.

[Swans]

Originally posted by Dark_Absinth:

Will this prevent you from using SteamVR and allow the VR version of the game to run in OculusVR client? I am having some stuttering problems and I want to run the game with the Oculus client to see if the game runs better.

In a nutshell you have 3 options, of which either 2 or 3 serve your needs:

1- Play from Steam using SteamVR
2- Play from Oculus Home
3- Play using the native launcher

I had some issues with Steam VR whereby when I wanted to play on standard 2K screen the game still ran in the Rift, regardless of what I selected in the Steam launcher or in game. So I deleted the Steam version of ED and installed it from the Oculuis library - option 2 above - and my issues went away. I had also read that the Steam client can cause some performance degredation but I did not actually notice a difference here.

On my laptop I have installed using option 3, just the ED launcher.

I'm not convinced on the value add that SteamVR brings to the table if you have the game in the Oculus library.

[Dark_Absinth [ESP]]

Originally posted by Swans:

Originally posted by Dark_Absinth:

Will this prevent you from using SteamVR and allow the VR version of the game to run in OculusVR client? I am having some stuttering problems and I want to run the game with the Oculus client to see if the game runs better.

In a nutshell you have 3 options, of which either 2 or 3 serve your needs:

1- Play from Steam using SteamVR
2- Play from Oculus Home
3- Play using the native launcher

I had some issues with Steam VR whereby when I wanted to play on standard 2K screen the game still ran in the Rift, regardless of what I selected in the Steam launcher or in game. So I deleted the Steam version of ED and installed it from the Oculuis library - option 2 above - and my issues went away. I had also read that the Steam client can cause some performance degredation but I did not actually notice a difference here.

On my laptop I have installed using option 3, just the ED launcher.

I'm not convinced on the value add that SteamVR brings to the table if you have the game in the Oculus library.

Hi, Thanks a lot for your answer. Sorry about the silly question, but how do you use ED from the Oculus store? Do you need to rebuy it? or the native launcher version allow you to do that?