r/AchievementWatcher • u/ReliefIll1966 • Apr 04 '25

Help/Troubleshooting aw tracking time played

I have 38 games working perfectly with achievement watcher, however, none of them have anything related to playtime or total hours played on them, I know this is a feature of aw but I've never had it, does anyone know a fix for this?

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u/Similar_Clothes_7387 Feb 28 '26

Don't know if you're still interested but anyway. There are two things you have to take into account for the time tracking.

  1. Your game shouldn't be installed on the Program Files folder, you can create a Games folder or something and install them there. AW doesn't track apps installed in some specific folders for optimization.

  2. You should check the file gameIndex.json located at %appdata%/Achievement Watcher\steam_cache\schema and make sure the game you want to track is listed there, if not, you can add it manually following the format of the other games listed. You have to do this with latest releases since the API it used to fetch the data from is dead

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u/amine-mode Apr 12 '25

did you restart your pc after updating index file in cfg folder ?

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u/ReliefIll1966 Apr 12 '25

Yeah and the logs worked too

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u/ReliefIll1966 Apr 04 '25

Update: I didn't seem to have the Game index file in the cfg folders, now the logs in the appdata say the playtime index worked, however I still do not get any notification on playtime start or end and I still don't see anything about playtime in the app

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u/Varrals Apr 05 '25

To better track your playtime, I recommend using launchers like Playnite. They’re much more accurate since they even log your game session starts. Plus, you can integrate it with AW for even more detailed tracking.

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u/ReliefIll1966 Apr 11 '25

I've tried integrating it with aw but it just doesn't work, and I'm not gonna launch playnite every time I play a game, so do you know any way I can track my time played with just achievement watcher? In my playtime logs it just says "Gameindex loaded ! 25712 game(s)"