The Passive-Aggressive Guide to installing STALKER GAMMA

[@grok_gamma]

You are saving my helpers so much headaches with this video, thanks a lot 😀

[@CheekiBreekiTv]

I started writing this video half as a joke while I was doing a fresh install of the game, reading all the comments of ppl having issues.. so if it turns out that in the end it makes you guys" life easier the better! Thanks for all the hard work, been having a blast with the mod!

[@jamesrustler8853]

not a single croissant or baguette reaction on it tho ... smh

[@hagashi1]

Please pin this so people can see that it is Dad approved forever

[@DankRobot]

🥖🥖🥖🥖

[@stevenkingsberry8966]

Thank you grok and your minions for all the hard work you guys have done. Thank you cheeki for all the hard work you put into great videos. Much love to you both.

[@BlissfulZen]

And just like that, the vid is now part of the official how to install section of the Gamma discord! You are doing the community a massive service with this man, well done!

[@ItWasHim838]

its not there anymore :/

[@deadkiller5798]

It still there

[@vasilzahariev5741]

I thought that the mod was gonna be super difficult to install, but after carefully reading and following the instructions on the discord server, it was super easy to do and when the new update came out it was also easy to update. It's actually amazing how well organized everything is for what is a free mod.

[@Catchy94]

Thank you, it's great to hear it :)

[@TokenWhiteGuyAGR]

Glad you made this. I was getting tired of seeing people bitching that their game is borked because of their NPC brain rot.

[@INIGO7]

some people are v new to pc and know nothing about computers🤗

[@REALDEALFLEXSEAL]

​@@INIGO7then follow the directions the install guide provides?

[@brandonvortex995]

That's or their PC couldn't support gamma

[@YiddishDancingClown]

​@INIGO7 there's countless install guides out there, that's on them

[@ArnovanWyk-q2j]

the edgy demeanor of many pc adapt folks comes across as "try hard" to the rest of the world. . . just makes you look pretentious and stupid, more than what you think others come across as. Make sure you don't fit this description: you know your way around installing a silly game and mod but you don't know how to relate to people. .. . . contrary to belief Mr. Robot is a TV show created by people who may not know much about pc`s but know their way around people and how to get them to bite the relatability bait, you see, people skills still trump in the end. people will bitch, you will bitch, everyone bitches about something . . . everyone is good in something and no one is good at everything - treat others as you would like to be treated when at the knowledge short end of a matter. some of those bitching people may have served their countries, have gone to war, have saved people`s lives as ER staff or 1st responders, may have been working under the sea to keep the lights on, may have done numerous great things - this, this is just a game man and if you know how to help stop bloating yourself up and help.

[@nt.hunter]

"If you don't get the prompt, congratulation. You fucked up already" ... That had me on the floor dying, idk why. Love this dude's honesty. Keep it up xD

[@xxtitanfallxx2075]

LOL specially with his accent! I know I was too.

[@Runeib]

And no explanation on why? No check mark in the first box when extracting btw mine was on my default

[@calvinyazzie3338]

Barely understood his dumbass voice thank god for subtitles and his honesty? Nah dude just wanted to be an annoying prick

[@lucanhenrique7457]

Hey, great work comrade. Been following some of your videos since I first played vanilla Stalker anomaly, a few years ago, and after a year I decide it to take a break from Anomaly and finally come back today. Gamma was in my radar for quite some time, and Im pleased to play this game again with such an wonderful modpack. It totally melts my brain for all the effort put together to release a full compilation of the best mods in a single package. It revamps the whole aspects of the game itself, its perfect and it works fine. Thanks for the amazing tutorial, it really helps a lot, and for the team of Grok Gamma. You guys are awesome, love and respect from Brazil comrades.

[@lucanhenrique7457]

Before Anomaly, I was playing Anomaly with Expedition modpack, tho is a great mod itself, my PC cant handle properly at that time, so I decided to test Gamma and I was not dissapointed. It runs fine with my new setup with a gtx1650 16ram and xeon e3 1230v2

[@Elhazzared84]

You know what I like the most about this guide? You included how to save the settings for when people update the game. When i played for the first time I was redoing the settings every time until I discovered how to save them.

[@scavengedgaming]

Just wanted to mention a small tip that saved me hours - Once you have downloaded everything and have selected an 'instance' and are letting Gamma update itself, open your task manager and put Gamma Download's on high priority. Went from 6 hours to around an hour for me.

[@THighthorn]

I just installed this latest patch after a year off Gamma and holy damn this mod has been improved.

[@TheUnum]

Only 95%? I'd say its closer to 98%... And I'm not a fan of Discord either but the FAQ and guides on the GAMMA discord is very very good. 99 out of 100 times, the answer to a question is there, I promise. Edit: Just realised we have the same desktop background.

[@CheekiBreekiTv]

Preach brother!

[@Gbag34]

For anyone who follows the steps exactly and for some reason still has many errors appear within the CMD window (the step at 5:28), and you are missing entire mods or parts of mods. Simply, repeat this step again. Close everything, relaunch the GAMMA launcher as Administrator, leave the 4 boxes checked, and click the install/update button once again. The installer will go through and repair any issues that happened during the (5:28) step. I followed this exactly and would crash upon starting a new game because a handful of mods didn’t install correctly. The fix for me was to simply redo this step. I didn’t have to clear or delete any files. Simply repeat the step and the installer will update over the missing and damaged files if you have any. Hope this helps anyone who has the same issue I did.

[@grizzd3095]

I did all the steps as you said you did also and was so excited to pick my equipment out and faction, go to click start (start to bring loading screen up) with happiness and joy....to be kicked back to files. I deleted and just played anomaly for awhile but I'm going to try to re-download and try this if it happens. Were you able to get the the same point as I did or am I having a different issue?

[@Gbag34]

@@grizzd3095 What was happening to me is, I followed the instructions in the discord exactly. The same steps as shown in this video. For some reason, while doing the launcher installation I could see many errors showing mods not installing correctly, missing files, all kinds of errors. Not a ton, but certainly enough that I knew it probably wasn’t working correctly. I launched the game and was able to navigate the main menu. I could pick equipment and try load the game but it would crash to desktop upon loading into the game world. Sounds similar to what you experienced. So I repeated the step above as I mentioned and when I did it that way, the window no longer showed all of those errors. I essentially just did the step twice and the second time the launcher patched up any files that were missing and my game worked after that. I hope you manage to get GAMMA working friend, as it’s my favourite way to currently play Stalker :)

[@grizzd3095]

I'm currently trying atm wish me luck 🤞

[@grizzd3095]

I'm playing!!!!! I'm gonna cry lmao!!!

[@Gbag34]

@@grizzd3095 Awesome! Glad to hear it :)

[@S5yn3T]

Man An actual quality installation guide, that we ended up adding it to the #how to install guide. One thing I'm not pleased about is the addition of the largefiles gdrive link into the description. My mirror is already getting overused as is... and now this video will definitely make it hit the download limit xD

[@kAt-mq3js]

IDK why am i watching this, i guess your voice is calming.

[@merkmisfit4027]

You sir have somehow made the most dummy-proof tutorial I have ever seen and I consider myself to be quite "challenged" at times, thank you for your help, and happy hunting stalker.

[@YukiKi7sune]

Im convinced this is the best guide there is, I'm digging the passive-aggression in this!

[@Grimm_Holt]

Thank you for posting this. It is a daily uphill battle to help people fix their install due to their own inability to read. Us helpers appreciate you.

[@skinnyhinny781]

I was having trouble getting it to run because I was being an idiot but the added sarcasm in this video saved my ass. Really people, if you literally follow the instructions, 'it just works' :)

[@taxseasonislive1228]

been wanting to play this for years but to a country bumpkin this looked WAY harder than you just did for me, godbless you

[@WiseArkAngel]

Привіт Stalker. I finally managed to figure it out (At 1:47am) and get GAMMA running. Many tears were shed this morning :))) You probably don't read these, but in all seriousness, you have saved me days of bellyaching, and I appreciate it.

[@Snigismund]

If this is your first time ever using 7zip on your pc, Then when you extract the files to the anomaly folders you need to uncheck the first box to the left, The one right under the destination. otherwise it will create an folder inside the folder with all the files ind. after you have unchecked it once it will stay unchecked.

[@blank9822]

Thank you, was stuck for 15 minutes trying to figure out what I could have possibly done wrong 💀

[@chromeingame3551]

This should be pinned!!!

[@KlischeenameplusZahl8946FUYT]

😂😂😂 This is actually fun to watch. I really understand, if ppl dont trust the process, beacause they are new to modding, GAMMA or Anomaly. But you have to follow the steps. And yes the mods and Anomaly running fine, if you do what they told you to do. I just had problems when I did miss something or did it incorrect. And all the problems on the discord are grounded in making something wrong. Good video. Keep going Cheeki

[@magnusgreel275]

Haha. I'm finally sitting down to update my install of Gamma, and your video comes up first in my Google search results :D This is the best how-to video on KZbin, hands-down lol Edit: some advice from my experience to anyone who benefits: If you're using ESET as your firewall/antivirus, you may want to turn the real-time file system protection's scan on File open, creation and execution off for the duration of the install/update process. ESET caught a few files during the update for me, but it's smart enough to recognise they weren't a threat--but it took a moment to scan them, which may interrupt the update (it didn't seem to for me, but results may vary). I just turned those functions off for the updater and turned them back on after, no fuss. ESET's just doing its job.

[@sekki2554]

This video gave me this weird feeling i got in modding communities like Fallout 4. It feels so pressed, as if the passive aggression is a way to implicate, that people with problems are actually just dumb. This is the first thing i‘m seeing related to SoC Modding so i hope, this feeling is just a exception. The few minutes where you actually explain what to do are worth watching tho

[@jorgeyan124]

I know this video has been out for a while but just wanted to thank you, I feel much better following the step by step of someone who knows what they are doing rather than reading the guide on their discord

[@AB-vp9mi]

After a hard day's work, I come home at 8:00... get ready to game at 8:25, check YT instead and find your video 8:39 and have a blast. I love your sense of humour.

[@Taipan_3175]

I am immediately sold on whatever games you make in the future, if your showcases are delivered with the same passive aggressive approach as in this video.

[@yono367]

When I updated to 0.9.1 I was definitely in the "followed instructions but still had issues" category and like you said, there were others with the same problem and someone with a solution in the discord

[@matthewlippold1727]

Doing God's work fellow Stalker

[@dannykuang9433]

First time I installed Gamma almost 2 years ago, before the last 2 big patches, it literally took me one go and I got it...probably because I CROISSANT READ THE DIRECTIONS! Then when I got my new rig last December, guess what? I reinstalled again and no issues as well. Seriously though, there is nothing wrong with the installation, people just suck and then go on to bash Grok, the modders, or the GAMMA pack itself. Lols, thank goodness we got Cheeki Breeki here doing the down low for the low low folks.

[@ArnovanWyk-q2j]

Thank you for this video, out of the 95% you may find there is another sub group that are actually trying but just aren't that savvy with this stuff, non the less they love the games and want to go through the pain of trying to get the game installed - I believe this` video actually helps a heck of a lot because of the video/audio references! I should note that I see some derogatory posturing in some of the viewers' comments. . . I`d just point out that they also watched the video, meaning they needed and benefited from it in some way as well... so they shouldn't judge the boat their sitting in too harshly.

[@metrofloof1214]

I've had it installed for ages at this point. Watching cheeki breekie being passive aggressive made my day

[@BonafideFish363]

Short, sweet, and to the point with a bit of shaming :) jokes aside it's a great guide and helps give active visual points to what the discord already says

[@tombass7935]

I'm not really mod savvy (or all that tech savvy in general) but I found your guide very helpful as a side by side reference with the information of the discord server. I was able to get it all set up and start playing. Thank you very much Mr. Breeki.

[@BraveRubberDuck]

I already had the game installed a couple of times, just wanted to hear you rant 😅

[@aaronsmith4940]

You were right, I'm an idiot, I was using an old installer because of some old video guide by another idiot, just got in to my first game of gamma and I'm loving it. This guide is perfect ❤

[@arminscherenberg1160]

Best Description for GAMMA ever.

[@SvenIronhand]

Best install tutorial ever! I love the accent and the rant. Especially the runtimes rant xD

[@itzdisboi]

thanks for the video man you made my crack up a few times with the instructions lmao

[@evo5dave]

Normally I'm very lazy and often don't install things if it's complicated. However I carefully followed the Gamma installation instructions on Discord and it all works fine. Just need to follow each step carefully. Only thing I have yet to figure out is how to play vanilla Anomaly if I want to now Gamma is installed.

[@CheekiBreekiTv]

Just have a separate install of Anomaly in another folder, if you just installed GAMMA you have all the files to do so already (just extract anomaly + update in another folder and you're done, can even add another instance of MO2 to it to mod it etc...)

[@evo5dave]

Merci mon ami!@@CheekiBreekiTv

[@mazz_archive]

Great video, love to see it put in easy terms for noobs like me! The last time I tried installing it, I was watching a video from some Russian guy that was dated 2 or 3 years ago😂

[@rogaldorn4958]

you weren't kidding when you said passive aggressive.

[@swaltkemmouche1381]

Frère un grand merci surtout pour la partie du dossier large files ... Mon téléchargement s'est arrêté durant cette partie la j'ai dû annuler pour passer au téléchargement suivant et là j'ai téléchargé le dossier en description pour le remplacer, et remettre un coup d'installation pour le zéro erreur sur la console. J'espère que ça va marcher cette fois j'ai perdu espoir de pouvoir y jouer à nouveau jamais eu autant de mal que cette fois-ci surtout la partie de l'exclusion des dossiers gamma et anomaly j'ai dû le faire sur mon antivirus qui gérait toutes les options de sécurité à la place du système ça m'a prit du temps avant de m'en rendre compte pfiou. Que ça marche ou pas je te remercie pour ce guide c'est extrêmement bien détaillé et limpide tu gères poto 🤟😊

[@Jessterr2]

Dude. You're a legend. Thank you. I can finally stop having to tell people to "RTFM, you brioche"

[@MiguelinJuarez-my7tz]

Thanks my dude, super helpful and clear. Again thanks

[@toniwalther7667]

awsome my brother!! thanks a lot for this guide!! i instelled it by my self and the games runs like ****...than i found this vid. started with this guide at the beginning and it WORKS NOW!! nice man! cya you all in pripyat :D

[@ViroRads]

Thanks for the captions!

[@danteredgrave120]

Giving a update, i did your instructions and the game runs great! Thanks for the help.

[@dascus77]

Got it first try, excellent guide, thank you for the hard work

[@MeatSnax]

I've gotta say, because I've been following modpack guides since I was like 11, I'm totally conditioned to just give up on instructions as soon as they link to another set of instructions for another download, and go find a video of some kid in India with dubstep playing in the bachground doing it in 5 seconds. I know the GAMMA team keeps up on these links, but the chances of you following a link from a mod guide to C++ or something, that link being up to date, and it making sense with your operating system is like a .05% chance. All this to say, the instructions should all be contained in 1 list.

[@scottenman2005]

Worked Perfect thanks a lot!

[@kdsaev]

Amazing video man thank you. Love the funny attitude too

[@kwdblade4683]

I just put this on in the background when I reinstall every few months for Angry Stalker ASMR

[@bladeburst3880]

Thank you very much for the Help.. and I love your videos.. keep going with everything.. 😊

[@eifelduro8164]

Just watching this for Entertainment and to support the algo!

[@tomashalada6892]

Hi Cheeki Breeki - just one small things - fortunatelly I made the game working just with the guide on discord, so I am a lucky one, or I know how to read 😛 - but I found one small thing is missing, and that is the Demonized exefiles. In case you have outdated exe, you might encounter a crashes, looking like, you load in the game, all looks nice and working, but after a few seconds you come in to crash referring most likely to shaders, but it can be different. Fix for me was downloading the latest demonized exe files, since that moment all worked well and I can again enjoy the beauty of of the zona :-) good luck to all good stalkers - and to you with your videos. Cheers

[@Atyir0Chaoschant]

thanks for the guide it works im like few days in and forgot to thank you bcz its not just instal and play but its worth it im huge stalker nerd and its a new perspective, ive played Misery mod already and when the chimeras start to be bullet sponges its just game breaking and annoying

[@CheekiBreekiTv]

Glad to hear everything went well and you're enjoying the game!

[@InternetExplorer-py4wc]

Thank you! i had a problem with the large files, now its fixed!

[@Skullmanridesagain]

love the background on the vid

[@AudioBoi1]

Installed Gamma 2 times. Had zero problems, because I can read.

[@GTRFREAK17]

Love the vinegar you added to the saltiness to make this palatable ;)

[@spydergamer7584]

idec if he is passive aggresive cuz honestly this helped so damn much

[@Cautious_Gamer]

Glad to say I'm part of the small percent that installed it correctly. Still crashes a hell of a lot. Could be more due to my again hardware though. When GAMMA works, the experience honestly can't be currently beaten. Finally found a set of Expert Tools! Thank you Grok.

[@Darudeen]

GAMMA's hard installation process is not a chore, it's a feature. This is an amalgamation of over 400 mods, you should be glad it works... Most of the time. Btw, remember when you added a Windows Defender exception during the installation? Grok has your nudes now.

[@grok_gamma]

It always worked nicely with my antivirus (ESET). It’s just that windows defender throws false positives sometime I’m unsure why

[@TheArashfarvardin]

Hi Sir,I Play Stalker Games/Mods For Over 20 years Now,I Didn't See Some Mod Has Trouble Like All These BEAUTIFUL Gamma Mod.There Isn't Some Way To Make It Easier Than This?(it may corrupt system for badly with all this changing THINGS just for installing a game mod!)...But CONGRATULATIONS For This Beautiful Cration,I Know That Was Hard To Make It...By The Way...THANKS

[@RealRaslu]

I'm here for the content. Game is working fine.

[@patatas220]

''íf you don't have the prompt, congratulations you fcked up already'' got me xD anyways, this vid is a god send been having trouble installing gamma back then

[@Green-Dean]

dude the files from gamma are in your trashcan. i cant download them =(

[@PUN-zu6jt]

this is the first video i've watched and i already love you XD XD your funny as hell

[@sarlol00]

1:40 I have never felt more called out before in my life.

[@donkey_oaty]

Cheeki, you wonderful guy

[@ridge9577]

ok so i thought i did this right long ago but didnt so now i am doing it right

[@st0nedpenguin]

Not gonna lie, I just installed and deliberately ignored the instructions and installed to a different location than the root of a drive. That being said I was pretty sure it wasn't going to cause any issues since there are no spaces in the path and I assume that's the #1 cause of issues people have when they install anywhere other than a drive root directory. Hilarious AND useful guide by the way, it pains me to say as a Brit. ;)

[@reistrudheart5190]

Awesome vid as always.. never had a problem or crash from the first update to hot fixes.. playing and loving the game more... still lot to learn though XD

[@kinagrill]

Was having issues making it work.. realized I'd accidentally winrar'd the Anomaly files and that was the issue. XD

[@rogervincentibesate3333]

My Guy you are a God sent Strelok would be Proud PS. Guilty of all the things you said hehe

[@CatspawAdventures]

Outstanding guide! I've never had an issue with this, but I also come from years of tech work--and my tech support heart was glowing every time you laid down the smack on those who couldn't be arsed to RTFM.

[@DrunkenDoctor]

I appreciate the detail guide and being spoken down to, it reminds me of my sin of low intelligence. You're doing God's work guiding the illiterate.

[@quinntu]

Not sure this process works anymore. I got the same error loading the world both times following the tutorial. Afterwards I tried the install steps in the Gamma discord and it worked perfectly first time. There's a different Gamma download now, and you don't replace the launcher.

[@jibbysajol4795]

Wow very informative clear as clear sky thanks fellow stalker.

[@meljXD2]

It's funny cause gamma pretty much installs itself after you download and place everything properly.

[@mrlegacy9089]

The couple times I've downloaded and installed this game I never had an issue and it was super easy haha

[@Silioth]

Incredibly easy to follow. Thanks a lot!

[@Just2Ddude]

Thank you so much for explaining it like I am a 5 year old. That is actually really helpfull.

[@3rdcain356]

this one could have been a bit more Passive-Aggressive, but thanks for giving me a Link i can throw at ppl next time im running around on the DC

[@Hyde335]

Thank you very much! I have also thought installing Gamma will be a nightmare, but it's so easy following your instructions. Greetings to France :) 🥐

[@amigojagurafff4816]

an angry french man explains me that i'am an absolute idiot. Love it.

[@thereverent117]

Actually watching this just for the laughs :D

[@MIXT3D]

4:16 "Congratulations you f*c$ up already" 🤣

[@MrAzrealDragon]

OK, you made me laugh. "If you don't get the prompt, Congratulations, you F up already" Going to put that on my tombstone LMAO

[@stalzi]

Approved by the GAMMA helper team. For now :kekw:

[@syndicalistcat3138]

I installed it for the first time , followed the guide everything went well. The game works fine outside of performance(my pc is not that good, gtx1660, ryzen 5 2600, 16 gb ram). I dont know what so many people doing wrong i tell you again this was my first install of the modpack a couple of days ago.

[@CeizoBro]

I don’t know if it’s still there, but in your gamma MO2 there may still be a mod titled “check this if you stutter*. Search up stutter in the search bar and check that and see if it helps. It was there in the version before .9 but idk if it’s still there

[@syndicalistcat3138]

@@CeizoBro Its there, i will check if there is a difference a little bit later. Do you know what that mod changes?

[@CeizoBro]

@@syndicalistcat3138 I have no idea unfortunately :/ it definitely boosted my frames and stopped my stuttering but I have it off now bc I built a powerhouse of a computer. My old one would stutter every 10 secs on Gamma but that no stutter option fixed it

[@syndicalistcat3138]

@@CeizoBro thanks

[@BiggsBababooey]

I was excited to try this mod out until I realized the pack was over 100 gigs, I don't have anywere near enough space for that, so alas, this will have to be on the backburner until I loot a better hard drive from the zone

[@BESZARTAMBAZDMEG]

There is no box for "Update large files" in the Gamma launcher.

[@MrCarnage117]

Instructions unclear Dick is now stuck in a ceiling fan.

[@Homaxxis]

TOooo complicated my attention span cant handle this, And I shall go back to playing eft ... Sick vid tho

[@metazare]

I've got a buddy who wants to get into GAMMA but was concerned it would be too difficult to get running. This video will be perfect for him.

Thank you for the kinky good humor :)

[@robfr5740]

Don't EVER force a french dude to bring out his C R O I S S A N T

[@_DayStar_]

This is a great guide, lmao, so passionate xD

[@disgorgeofconsciousness2250]

Hey Cheeki Breeki, do you think youd do a another video on stalker anthology? Perhaps when it gets a patch fixing the game breaking scripting bugs? Ive been loving the presentation of the mod. Absolutely gorgeous. Only thing I've had to touch, settings wise, was the slowdown time mod option.

[@CheekiBreekiTv]

I will at some point yeah! It's a super exciting project, just waiting for a couple big updates to drop to see what has improved!