On 9/15/2012 23:18, Warp wrote:
> Since the SDK does not come with the game itself, I don't
> know how it could run without Steam.

What I'm told is that if it doesn't find the SDK, it downloads it during the 
install process. (And I don't think Steam comes with the SDK - just the engine.)

In any case, I can't test that bit, since I already have Steam and all that 
installed, and it installed just fine.

Oh, I see. When you install it, it winds up in your Steam library. The first 
time you launch it from Steam, it says "Yo, there's a Steam update for you, 
this 4.7G thing called 'SDK'." So it treats the SDK install like any other 
Steam update. I Hadn't actually gotten around to trying it until I was 
already replying here. :-)

The installer offered to let me launch it (as installers are wont to do) and 
I wasn't running Steam, but I don't know if that would have started up Steam 
or what. Maybe it doesn't install at all if you don't have Steam. It *did* 
install directly into my (non-standard) Steam games storage directory on my 
alternate non-C: drive, so maybe it doesn't even start installing if Steam 
isn't around.

I don't know how (or if) it runs without one having an actual steam account. 
I'm just repeating what I was told by others.

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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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