Is there any way for steam to track hours on a modded build?

[Brody.mack]

I'm new to the modding scene and found a couple of guides that told me to make a separate instance of KSP to mod so the folder in Steam is a vanilla backup. That seems to be the smartest way, but I still want to have Steam track the hours I have played KSP. Is there a way to allow Steam to track the mod hours while also keeping a backup?

[Poppa Wheelie]

CKAN will track your hours separately for each of your KSP instances.  Is this what you are after?  So you can keep your own total time played stats?  

I don't think there's any method of "registering" your various instance locations with Steam.  Steam is aware of only one instance.  So I don't see a way for Steam to provide you this capability.

[HebaruSan]

Steam will track play time for you if you use this option to add your extra instance and then launch it from within Steam:

[Brody.mack]

4 hours ago, Poppa Wheelie said:

CKAN will track your hours separately for each of your KSP instances.  Is this what you are after? 

Yeah, that sounds about right. I was not aware that CKAN did that!

4 hours ago, HebaruSan said:

Steam will track play time for you if you use this option to add your extra instance and then launch it from within Steam:

I'll try this too!

 

Thanks, this was helpful!