If you want to copy Steam games that are still downloading, please see this article. Naturally you can also use your internal network instead of portable drives, if you have a fast enough one. The first you need to do, in order to copy Steam Games from one computer to another, is to find your Steam Games library. Here you will see folders for each of your installed Steam games on that computer and drive.
If you would like to know how to move your Steam games to another drive on the same computer , please see this article. Alrighty, now that we have our Steam games folder, simply plug in your portable flash, or hard drive, then start to copy the folders of the games, that you would like to move to your other computer.
Once done, go to your new PC and plug the portable drive in. You will naturally first need to install Steam on the new computer first.
Once it finds them, it will simply initiate the install without redownloading the entire game. Enhanced read write speeds: Sequential read and write performance Secure encryption: Protect data by selecting security options, You can read more about how to backup and restore your Steam games here, but I would not recommend using this method to move your Steam games to another computer, simply because of how much longer it takes, without any benefit.
In order to see which method would be faster to copy your steam games ot a new pc, I did a test using DIRT 4 , which is a The reason for this is that, Steam has to do a full compression phase during the backup method, which takes a lot of time, and in this case is a waste of time, as we are decompressing it again right afterwards. For example : If you are trying to move a 50GB game, and you only have a 16GB flash drive to copy the game across to another computer.
In this case, you can tell Steam to divide the game backup into folders of 16GB, each for your convenience. Besides this, the Steam backup feature is great to use for the purpose of having a backup of your games in case something happens to your original game hard drive, such as it getting stolen, broken or damaged. With almost no bandwith at home, I needed a way to download DOOM that didn't involve blocking the home internet line for two days.
Using steamcmd you can use any computer to download steam games. Thanks for documenting this. One suggestion though, in the 'Downloading' section step 7 could be opening the vcf file to see what the installdir value is and making sure the same name is used for the downloaded game. Otherwise Steam will create that directory and end up downloading the game anyway once it detects an empty directory. Good addition avtar Thanks. Tried to use this to solve a publisher screwup.
Parts of Steam think I own the game, other parts don't. It's crazy, and they won't fix it, nor can I buy the correct version now, since Steam says it would be a dupe.
Any ideas? If I can just get the darned thing installed, with the correct appid showing in the folder or wherever my license key would work fine. Ironically, I'd previously bought the standalone, non-Steam version, but now it won't install, and tells me to go use Steam. That was extremely useful, thank you. Finally a guide for all cases. So I can do this instead of downloading a game again, right?
I've just installed DOTA2 on one of my computers but don't wanna waste all that time downloading it on the other one again. So if I basically copy the files steam should recognize them, right? Stating the obvious here but if you've recently added another Steam library folder i.
The current Steam client will notify you that it is discovering existing files when this is working correctly. If you do not see this message, you are re-downloading the game. Show 4 more comments. AsinineVulpine AsinineVulpine 51 1 1 silver badge 1 1 bronze badge. Thank you, I used this info and opened the manifest file in notepad to see the installdir so that i understood which name i should give for my game folder, inside common.
Screenshot of the Week. Connect the external hard drive with Steam games back up to the new PC and log in Steam with your account. Last, click " Finish " when the process completes.
Unlike Steam games backup, it is suitable for moving several games to another pc. The second method is much faster than the first one. If you tend to copy multiple Steam games, please make sure your external hard drive is larger than the Steam game library. The Steam games folders that you installed are here. Then you can start copying or pasting the game folders. You can directly scroll back to Method 1 and follow the transferring guide there. If your games are not installed on the location, you can move to the right place for copying.
Here are two proven ways to do it. Copy and paste it to the external hard drive.
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