Install Question

[Disturbed]

Anyway to install the game via CD. I have no interest in download while having a CD. But since former MP is shout down i need the Steam MP

[Maxwell]

If you install the game via CD, you wont have steam MP.

[Milord]

Installing through Steam is the only way to get the latest update (required for online multiplayer).

[Gralzeim]

I'm not 100% sure if this will work, but I think it might. It works for other games.

Start your Steam install of Soulstorm, then pause the download once it starts. Exit Steam, install Soulstorm from the CD to the default directory, then copy everything from the game's directory (something like THQ\Dawn of War Soulstorm? it'll have the game's .exe and folders like "Engine" in it) to the Dawn of War Soulstorm folder for Steam (Steam\steamapps\common\Dawn of War Soulstorm).

Start Steam back up, unpause the download if needed, and see if it sorts itself out (it might take it a bit). The idea is to give Steam the majority of the data from the CD. It'll still have to patch in the updates (direct from the CD won't be updated to the latest version pre-Steam multiplayer update) and the Steam multiplayer update, but it should save you some time, in theory.

Not sure if this will work but if you have like, a download quota or something, it might save you from downloading the whole thing.

You also might have to revalidate the install if the Steam version uses a slightly different .exe (and I think it does), but it should still avoid downloading the whole thing from scratch.



Basically, install from Steam but stop it once it starts the actual download, install from CD somewhere else, copy data over to Steam version folder, let Steam sort it out, revalidate if it doesn't, should work.