# Need help with Steam and Stalker

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-with-steam-and-stalker/479188>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [December 30, 2008, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-with-steam-and-stalker/479188 "2008-12-30T07:33:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![Captain\_C](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Captain\_C](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_C)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2008, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-with-steam-and-stalker/479188/1 "2008-12-30T07:33:44Z")

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This is directed at the game Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl, but applies for pretty much all games on steam:  
I recently purchased Stalker Shadow of Chernobyl on Steam. The game seems fun, but the character’s head bobs left and right at a nauseating pace every time I move. I’ve found mods online that apparently fix this problem, but they seem to be meant for a copy of the game installed from the original disks. As far as I can tell, Steam installs games completely differently from normal. I can’t seem to locate any of the config or system files for any of the games I have downloaded on Steam. Normally I install games directly to the folder E:\games  
ame\_of\_game. I would assume that Steam would be putting them somewhere. I have a folder E:\Steam that seems to be very counter-intuitive. It is large enough to contain game installs, but the files are all messed about. I can’t make heads or tales of it.

**Can anyone help me figure out how to find the files for the games I have on Steam?** Or more specifically, how to turn off head bobbing in Stalker? I find it extremely silly that the only option I see left to me is to uninstall Stalker, bittorrent a CD version, and install that so that the file names actually make sense. I’m pretty sure that wouldn’t be illegal, since I just freakin paid for the game. I’ve heard that Steam is supposed to be great for direct download games, but so far I am far from impressed.

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**Author:** ![Darkhold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@Darkhold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darkhold)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2008, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-with-steam-and-stalker/479188/2 "2008-12-30T13:35:10Z")

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ahh the craziness of Steam install locations.

Try C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common Well I guess yours would be more C:\Steam\steamapps\common in the ‘common’ folder you should see a install tree for Stalker in there.