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    Steam Games and M11x

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by SteelWalrus, Aug 30, 2010.

  1. SteelWalrus

    SteelWalrus Notebook Enthusiast

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    Recently I downloaded America's Army 3 from Steam and it ran terribly so I tried to add it to Nvidia Optimus and it wasn't there. So I read on the forums and checked out that you can find the exe files for the games under the Steam Common file but I i dont see an exe file to add to Optimus.

    Any help?


    Sorry for being a newb.
     
    SteelWalrus, Aug 30, 2010
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    niithegoat Notebook Consultant

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    STEAMPATH] -- The default location where Steam is installed
    Windows 32-bit: C:\Program Files\Steam\
    Windows 64-bit: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\

    [STEAMAPPS] -- The default location for Steam Games
    All versions: [STEAMPATH]\steamapps\
     
    niithegoat, Aug 30, 2010
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  3. SteelWalrus

    SteelWalrus Notebook Enthusiast

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    ok i went to the file you mentioned i found my Steam ID, common, sourcemods, and a ton of gcf and ncf files.
     
    SteelWalrus, Aug 30, 2010
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  4. corwinicre

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    go to task manager, start game, see which .exe runs when it starts, search for .exe :)
     
    corwinicre, Aug 30, 2010
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  5. SteelWalrus

    SteelWalrus Notebook Enthusiast

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    The Task Manager said America's Army 3.0 so I checked the america's army 3 file consistantly and I didn't find a file called America's Army 3.0 or anything of the sort for some reason.
     
    SteelWalrus, Aug 30, 2010
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    Did you try what I said? There has to be an .exe that starts when you launch the game, and you can see that via task manager.
     
    corwinicre, Aug 30, 2010
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    cKranez Notebook Guru

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    i saw that it is AA3game.exe that ran it but i couldn't find the .exe its not on my computer i have the same problem... any help...?
     
    cKranez, Oct 17, 2010
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  8. jaeyang9

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    for 64bit the game folder should be under

    C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common

    and the exe file should be under the game folder

    i don't have this particular game, but that's how it is basically with all my other steam downloaded games
     
    jaeyang9, Oct 18, 2010
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    tonkatrain Notebook Consultant

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    Right click AA3game.exe and click open file location.
     
    tonkatrain, Oct 18, 2010
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