Running game soley off Steam

captainespinoza · January 2016

I initially began running STO off of the Arc store client, but can I switch entirely to Steam? I have tried adding the game to Steam, but all that does is boot the Arc client. Many thanks.

proteuscore121 · January 2016

Hi captainespinoza,

So steam can be a little strange. When you manually add a game to your library, Steam acts as an intermediary, offering you to basically bundle up your games through Steam, so that Steam may organize them in its library for user ease of access later on. This is the case with the method you've chosen. Steam is not booting Star Trek Online through its own software, because you manually told Steam where your copy of STO (which is run through ARC in this case) is located at, therefore when you are trying to launch it from Steam, you get the ARC launcher.

In order to launch STO through Steam, go to the "Store" tab in the Steam client, navigate to the search box (upper right hand corner once in the store tab) and type in Star Trek Online. You can either hit "Enter" or wait a few seconds and the search results will come up in the form of a drop down menu. Select Star Trek Online from there, or through the list if you chose to hit enter, and it will take you to the Star Trek Online game page. From there, if you scroll down just a little bit, you should see a button that says "download" or "add to library", something along those lines rather. This will then download the STO game client directly into your library, and you can then launch Star Trek Online officially through Steam's software at this point.

Now you may be required to re-download the game through Steam's Star Trek Online launcher, simply because it is not using the Arc method. I do not know if there is a way to simply drag and drop the needed installation files from your ARC installation into the Steam installation, but in all honesty even if there was, I would simply re-download the client via Steam's launcher for a "clean install" experience. Whether you choose to keep the ARC downloaded STO client is obviously up to you.

I hope this helped!

LH

ronanobrien · January 2016

You CAN re-download the game through Steam, as it is available on there...but be warned that while this is the simpler, easier option to play it through Steam, that you also might also have to repatch the complete game.

Additionally...I HAVE found a standalone version of the launcher on here. If you'd like, I could link you up to the place I have the installer for that hosted on my Google account, and then you won't have to worry about an overlay slowing your game down.

silvershadow · June 2016

> @proteuscore121 said:
> Hi captainespinoza,
>
> So steam can be a little strange. When you manually add a game to your library, Steam acts as an intermediary, offering you to basically bundle up your games through Steam, so that Steam may organize them in its library for user ease of access later on. This is the case with the method you've chosen. Steam is not booting Star Trek Online through its own software, because you manually told Steam where your copy of STO (which is run through ARC in this case) is located at, therefore when you are trying to launch it from Steam, you get the ARC launcher.
>
> In order to launch STO through Steam, go to the "Store" tab in the Steam client, navigate to the search box (upper right hand corner once in the store tab) and type in Star Trek Online. You can either hit "Enter" or wait a few seconds and the search results will come up in the form of a drop down menu. Select Star Trek Online from there, or through the list if you chose to hit enter, and it will take you to the Star Trek Online game page. From there, if you scroll down just a little bit, you should see a button that says "download" or "add to library", something along those lines rather. This will then download the STO game client directly into your library, and you can then launch Star Trek Online officially through Steam's software at this point.
>
> Now you may be required to re-download the game through Steam's Star Trek Online launcher, simply because it is not using the Arc method. I do not know if there is a way to simply drag and drop the needed installation files from your ARC installation into the Steam installation, but in all honesty even if there was, I would simply re-download the client via Steam's launcher for a "clean install" experience. Whether you choose to keep the ARC downloaded STO client is obviously up to you.
>
> I hope this helped!
>
>
> LH

Running game soley off Steam

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