Jeanjean-March 8th, 2016 at 21:08 none Comment author #5184 on Play games without its Steam & rsquo; use! By cracrayol's blog Ben thank you for the info! Hyper useful it, the top is an option to create a folder containing all the necessary files, kind of story to make installs without steam on a formatted computer.
Not sure how to provide evidence to you. I have 395 games installed by steam, of which 88 have steamappid.txt in the right place, one of those is an empty file. 31 more games have steamappid.txt in a different location. Only 30% of my games have any steamappid.txt file anywhere in the installation. Ok here is some evidence you might be able to check.
Neither Team Fortress 2 nor DOTA 2 (free games) have any steamappid.txt (on Linux at least). I can give you one or two windows games without steamappid.txt if you don't believe me: Jolly Rover, and Cthulhu Saves the World.–May 11 '14 at 14:30. There is an answer for this in the Steam Support, however, it requires you to be running both Steam and Windows.Taken from:This process can also be used for Demos, Media, and other products on Steam:. Login to the Steam account. Go to your Library. Right click the installed game and choose 'Create desktop shortcut'.
Go to your Desktop and locate the new shortcut. Right-click on the shortcut and select Properties. Look at the target path for the number following steam://rungameid/.
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This number is the Application ID for the game. While is the easiest way, there is a way to do it which is fully offline and more garunteed than (as not all games have that steamappid file) however this will only work for games you have downloaded as this method has you look in the steamapps folder.in the steamapps folder you'll see a bunch of appmanifest######.acf files, the # are the app id for the game, but also other information such as where the game's directory is and it's name. Using Notepad. Open the 'Find in Files' dialog with Ctrl Shift F. in 'Find What' enter the name of the game.
in 'Filter' put in.acf. in 'Directory' put in the path to the steampps folder. untick 'In all Sub folders'.
Click 'Find in Files'and quickly you should get a result with the highlighted line of the file being the game name, verify this and look at the filename of the.acf file and the number in the name is your id. You can use any other program you are familiar with if it can. search for text in files in a specified directory. can be filtered to only look at.acf files and/or just the steamapps directory (as it can slow right down if your also searching every file in the common directory which is where the games are normally downloaded too)this method also has the extra benefit in that if you are looking for where the game files are, the.acf file will have that listed in there too (i have came across the rare instances where game folders in common aren't intuitive to the game they actually are).