"Game not installed..."

Hello

So I have the game eft bought (standard edition). I heard about sp tarkov and was interested. I have installed tarkov, ran it atleast once, then I followed the guide (basically dragged everything from the sp-aki zip to the battlestategames/EFT folder).

I can successfully launch the server, and also the launcher. Managed to register etc... however, when clicking start, the launcher gives me a popup, saying I need to install/buy the game.

I tried re-installing, but didn't work.

Any thoughts?

Right, makes sense. Thank you. I will give it a try.

Only reason why I did it as because I'm trying to conserve space on my little ssd 😀