With that said, as you follow the steps in the guide and look over the other mods if you wish, you are going to read an awful lot about Stalker's "bin" subfolders and the names of the executable (.exe) files that reside in them, until you're sick of them. But yes, you can still use the techniques in this guide for any/every mod, it would simply be overkill in some cases. This guide presents you a technique to apply for the tricky ones using OGSR as the focus and some other examples in the Appendix.
There are relatively simple ways to make Steam track your hours on some Stalker mods, and there are detailed walkthrough guide for some examples such as CoC and Anomaly.
NOTE: This guide is intended to be applied to mods that are not normally track-able with simple techniques. If you use a different folder then tailor the guide to your PC. I will only be displaying default Steam installation locations. You're have experience installing Stalker mods, you've played your share of them and been around the block a few times with the general process. Are familiar with how to run a program as administrator without explicit instructions.ħ. A working knowledge of stringing the above into batch files (.bat or. A working knowledge of navigating directories and calling programs from the command line (DOS)ĥ. You know where to find files without being given explicit instructionsĤ. A solid grasp of file types and extensionsģ. A solid grasp of files and folders, where Steam installs your gamesĢ. The assumed skillset of the intended audience is:ġ. You won't see "Hold Windows+R > type cmd > click OK > right click in the task bar > Run as admin etc etc etc." If the guide says simply "run an elevated command prompt", you need to know that means run cmd as administrator and how to do it because you've done it a thousand times before. I need to be clear up front, you need good Windows knowledge at a power user level, this guide is not going to drill into hand holding steps.