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FatAlbert

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Registered: 2026-11-07

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SOLUTION: ATHENA SWORD INSTALLATION NOT RECOGNIZED

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PROBLEM: STEAM's Athena Sword is not recognized by Rainbow Six 3 Gold Edition after installing both games.

SOLUTION: 

• After install, my game files show up like this:  Rainbow Six 3 Gold AND Rainbow Six 3 Gold 19840.

• Open folder [Rainbow Six 3 Gold 19480]. Copy contents.

• Open [Rainbow Six 3 Gold] paste inside this folder. 

• select OVERWRITE if/when you get the option.

Done.  Both Gold Edition & Athena Sword icons work and Athena Sword is recognized.

SINGLE PLAYER OPTIONAL STUFF After the above modification.

• Uninstall Athena Sword: I tried it.

Use Steam's uninstall for Athena Sword - afterwards, everything still works.  You can now delete the "19840" game folder, save 3.4GB of storage space, hide the Athena Sword icon from your Steam library and just use the Gold Edition library icon to access both games.

• Accidental Re-installation:  I tried it.

If you keep the Steam library icon for Athena Sword and click on it
First time, You get an error message from Steam.
2nd time, Steam automatically re-downloads and re-installs Athena Sword and folder Rainbow Six Gold 19840 appears again.
Gold Edition & Athena Sword icons (in Steam) work.
All that happens is folder "19840" comes back and you lose 3.4GB of storage space. 

• Using Steam's Verify Integrity of Game files on modified Gold Edition.  I tried it.

Messages I received....
First time, Steam said re-aquiring 1 missing file.  Athena Sword still worked.
2nd time, Steam said re-aquiring 2 missing files. Athena Sword still worked.
3rd time, Steam said re-aquiring 2 missing files.  Athena Sword still worked.
So far so good.
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Mods: 
I installed a mod pack and everything still works.  I don't know how this affects multi-player though.

It appears UbiSoft or whomever has made some changes since I originally installed Gold Edition and Athena Sword almost multiple decades ago.  I experimented with some mods and decided to do a fresh install, last week.  I ran into the problem where the Steam installation of Gold Edition would not recognize that I also installed Athena Sword.  I went through many, many, many downloads and re-installations and other sh** to try and fix this.

I tried looking up forums in Steam. 
Community > Steam Discussions > entered "Rainbow 6".  Search Results "In forum Counter-Strike 2 Trading"

Steam support
They couldn't help me but they did remove a paragraph from Steam store's Gold Edition site, claiming the Gold Edition automatically gives you Athena Sword without needing to download any other files. 

They gave me a link to the proper forums where I saw someone from AllR6 and that brought me here (a 2nd time.  Having a senior moment....I discovered I'm already a member on this site (years ago).

Found Solutions
Anyway, I'm pretty sure I saw this solution mentioned somewhere.  I don't remember the name otherwise I would give proper credit.  I went with another solution, but in hind site, this solution was the easiest to implement.  So I tried it.

Last edited by FatAlbert (Yesterday 18:08:29)