Steam – Linking installed game with steam

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Medieval total war 2 is already installed on my pc, if I look in steam it is there and it only says "install"

Is there anyway of making steam recognise that its installed already and link them or do I have to wait 8 hours for it to download and install on steam?

Thank you

EDIT: The reason I wish to link the two is so I can get steam to auto update

Best Answer

You can try doing that:

  1. Go to [Your Steam folder]\SteamApps\common\ and create a folder there by the name of "Medieval II Total War" (without quotes, obviously).
  2. Put everything from standalone installation folder to this newly created one.
  3. Start installing Medieval through Steam. It should find all the resources. It will download something however (whatever different in Steam version comparing to standalone one) though it should be way less than downloading the whole game.
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