How can I sync achievements for Unreal Tournament 2004 and Quake Live, with my Steam account which were not installed through Steam?

Question

Unreal Tournament 2004 and Quake Live are installed through my PC, but not through Steam. How can I sync achievements with my Stem profile for these and other games which Steam sells but which I bought through another vendor (or in Quake Live, it is free and browser-based)?

Asked by gameaddict

Answer

The "Steam Version" of games differs from the non-Steam version - if your game wasn't purchased or activated through Steam, you can't get Steam achievements for it. I don't believe there's any way to (legitimately) take achievements from a non-Steam version of a game and import them into Steam.

Additionally, Quake Live and UT 2004 don't have Steam achievements, as far as I can tell. In Quake Live's case, they have a completely separate achievement system (Awards on your Profile) and UT2k4 was released prior to the introduction of the Steam achievement system, and I don't think it was ever modified to include achievements.

Answered by agent86

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