Gamersgate HTTT and Steam account

[mrfish88]

I've been very very skint recently, and have been wanting to buy HTTT, but couldn't afford the £15 for it on steam. I've just seen it's on sale for £6 on gamersgate - but my Complete Edition was bought on steam.

Will I be able to buy the gamersgate edition and have that work with my steam game? Or am I gonna have to shell out the full £15 on steam?

Thanks for your help

 

[Malurous]

I'm pretty sure it won't work that way. I believe that the only case where different versions are compatible is hard copy & GG.

But maybe someone who knows more about Steam can confirm.

 

[mrfish88]

Yea that's what I was thinking...what a pain. Ah well, will have to hope it'll crop up in Steams weekend deal sometime.

 

[richie]

I wonder what exactly Steam does to make its version of the game incompatible with others.
Most probably, the only problem is to make gg downloaded HTTT finding the already installed EU3 game path. And that could be (again, only probably) solved by one or two windows registry entries.

 

[Sijura]

My steam version would keep removing the HTTT 4.1 beta patch, until I unchecked the "keep this game up to date" option. Maybe with this option set you could install a GG HTTT over it as well? No guarantees however.

 

[arbiter6]

I wonder what exactly Steam does to make its version of the game incompatible with others.
Most probably, the only problem is to make gg downloaded HTTT finding the already installed EU3 game path. And that could be (again, only probably) solved by one or two windows registry entries.

It executes its games through Steam.exe (if you create a shortcut with steam you can see it in the property It's actually funny to exploit)

So basically EVEN if you click on EU3.exe it will redirect to steam.exe (try closing steam and executing EU3.exe, u'll see steam start)

That is why a GG version wouldn't work. You'd be trying to install a game on steam.exe (which it obviously wasn't meant to)

 

[richie]

It executes its games through Steam.exe (if you create a shortcut with steam you can see it in the property It's actually funny to exploit)

So basically EVEN if you click on EU3.exe it will redirect to steam.exe (try closing steam and executing EU3.exe, u'll see steam start)

That is why a GG version wouldn't work. You'd be trying to install a game on steam.exe (which it obviously wasn't meant to)

Well then, here is the idea:
1. copy whole EU3 directory from steam somewhere else
2. make HTTT from gg install in this new directory
3. ???
4. profit

Even if original EU3 steam eu3.exe wants to run through steam.exe, it should be overwritten by new eu3.exe from gamersgate. And even if not, then you can run game through eu3game.exe.
Two things are uncertain:
1. if HTTT installer from gg allow to install to our target directory we select
2. if there is more steam protections/differences (than eu3.exe file) in its EU3 complete version

 

[mrfish88]

I remember I had hassle installing the Magna Mundi mod over steam - it couldn't find the game directory. When I changed the registry however, and changed it to EU3.1 (or whatever it was) from EU3.000000001 (steam), it could find it.

With that in mind, would HTTT install if I made the same registry edit again?

 

[sprites]

that works , and you don't have to move the game elsewhere
and steam is 3.2 now , so you don't even have to alter the registery

 

[mrfish88]

sprites, when you say that works, do you mean that the GG version of HTTT will work with the steam version?

 

[mrfish88]

just in case anyone else is interested, I risked it and bought it on GG. Works fine

 

[Wildy]

just in case anyone else is interested, I risked it and bought it on GG. Works fine

Great to know, maybe this info should be stickified so future gamers will know about it.
And also, remember to register your HttT.

 

[sprites]

sprites, when you say that works, do you mean that the GG version of HTTT will work with the steam version?

that's what i have
well now i have a spare EU3 but i have steam+gamersgate installed

 

[lordkestrel]

As you've seen, there isn't any reason why it wouldn't work. To be safe make sure you copy the version of Complete that Steam installed into some other directory before you install the GG version of HTTT. The reason for doing this is so that Steam won't ever try and update the version you have installed HTTT on top of.