I have something called "Steam" that does nothing
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Thank you Ironside. I will try clicking on your link.
I am mostly a board gamer. Avalon Hill, GMT... I have previous versions of EU and really liked those and wanted to try this one as well. So not a computer expert and not familiar with Steam.
I think I originally got it from Amazon. its been a long time though. After getting it I saw that my computer was too underpowered to use and its just been sitting around.
thank you to all the posters who tried to be helpful.
I am mostly a board gamer. Avalon Hill, GMT... I have previous versions of EU and really liked those and wanted to try this one as well. So not a computer expert and not familiar with Steam.
I think I originally got it from Amazon. its been a long time though. After getting it I saw that my computer was too underpowered to use and its just been sitting around.
thank you to all the posters who tried to be helpful.
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If you have issues installing it once you have Steam installed, put the CD key into Steam and it should just give you a Steam version outrightly if I'm not mistaken, this way you won't even need the disk.
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Why you need Steam: download the game and patches.
Why you don't need Steam: copy the game to a different folder and play without steam.
Seems good to me.
Why you don't need Steam: copy the game to a different folder and play without steam.
Seems good to me.
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I tried putting the CD key into the version of Steam that I got from the website link. That worked! Thank you!
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You don't even need to move the game to play without Steam, just running the eu4.exe file directly works perfectly.
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There is a DVD edition available mainly in Germany, I assume to fit local preferences. But it too needs Steam to install and run. There is no non-Steam edition anywhere.
Another freedom fighter kept down by the fascists from the north pole... You all saw it
I personally love updating steam every day! and dont even get me started on when origin client and steam are runninng at the same time! Giddy just thinking about it
I personally love updating steam every day! and dont even get me started on when origin client and steam are runninng at the same time! Giddy just thinking about it
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On my old PC, Steam was a major problem as it used up a lot of RAM (and I had only 2GB RAM) every time I was trying to play a game. It ran in the background unnecessarily hogging all the resources and made most games slow down into a crawl. EU4 was particularly lagging heavily for me.
However, in April I built up an entirely new CPU for Cities Skylines with lots of RAM. Now Steam isn't much of a problem anymore.
That said, Steam is still a DRM, and I hate DRMs.
However, in April I built up an entirely new CPU for Cities Skylines with lots of RAM. Now Steam isn't much of a problem anymore.
That said, Steam is still a DRM, and I hate DRMs.
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What is this, man? Do you expect everyone to be 100% fluent in English regardless of whether they are native speakers or not, or else you'll go on terming them all as children and not to be taken seriously?
I speak Sanskrit, Hindi, Malvi, Bundelkhandi, Bhojpuri, Bihari, Rajasthani (Rajput), Gujarati, learning-level Japanese, learning-level German....and bits and parts of Chinese, Latin, Russian, Spanish, Italian, and French. English is literally last on my list. Just because it is not my first language and I may make occasional mistakes, does that reduce my age by 20 years?
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Yup... Well he shouldn´t have wanted that, unless he can take the emotional ride by this brand ;-) To OP, glad you´d seem to get it working, now you only need the DLC to make it even better experience. Would suggest you´d wait for a sale, which usually happens quite often. At the very least you can start by buying the oldest and cheapest DLC which doesn´t benefit that greatly on a sale anyhow
That way you get many new features but doesn´t get loads off them thrown in your head, since the game has added tons of shit since release in order to improve it and learning it all even in the main game can be difficult, even more so with all the extra stuff ;-)
No, but "is not ferst languege waaah" is not a valid excuse to speak the global lingua franca poorly.
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Back when CK2 was being made, there was an outcry on these forums for a non steam version. Time and money was put into making and maintaining a non steam version... That almost nobody bought.
Steam is *the* platform for PC games right now. Steam haters are a tiny, tiny minority.
Steam is *the* platform for PC games right now. Steam haters are a tiny, tiny minority.
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Steam haters might be a small minority, but guess the steam dislikers are more than that ;-) I for one see it as an unfortunate necessity, which have it´s benefits sure and have improved with it´s services mainly due to European consumer laws and a general evolving standard from going from a new concept to a more settled institution.
I for one dislike steam due to their majority, even monopoly-like dominance and how they have treated customers in the past. Yet as stated, it has been improved so benefits are getting better
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or you could simply ask it not to update ;-) Last patch, steam asked me if it could update or not
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