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Posted by Forceflow on Sat Aug 27th at 1:41pm 2005

Hello.

I bought a new PC recently. What's the best way to transfer HL2 and all my favorite Steam games from my previous computer to the new one ?

I'm not planning on re-downloading the whole game again.

I suppose I better install Steam on the new computer ... then what ?

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Posted by ReNo on Sat Aug 27th at 1:58pm 2005

You can right click on any game in your steam menu and select "backup game files", which will then give you the choice of which games to backup. No idea what happens after that as I've not tried it, but it will probably let you burn them all to DVD or copy over a network or something.




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Posted by KingNic on Sat Aug 27th at 2:05pm 2005

Network them, share the steam folder on the old PC. Install Steam on the new PC and run it, let it update itself (I've run into plenty of problems just copying everything over into a fresh Steam install). Start everything downloading (HL2, CSS etc) and quit steam before they finish. Copy all the GCFs from the old PC onto the new PC.



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Posted by Forceflow on Sat Aug 27th at 2:13pm 2005

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Network them, share the steam folder on the old PC. Install Steam on the new PC and run it, let it update itself (I've run into plenty of problems just copying everything over into a fresh Steam install). Start everything downloading (HL2, CSS etc) and quit steam before they finish. Copy all the GCFs from the old PC onto the new PC.


You've actually tried this method, KingNic ?

I know the backup thing, Reno, but I don't see any option to ... restore backup or something like that.



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Posted by rival on Sat Aug 27th at 2:24pm 2005

this is off topic but whats your new PCs specs? im just curious


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Posted by Forceflow on Sat Aug 27th at 2:40pm 2005

Nothing too fancy

AMD 3000+ 64bit Athlon
Radeon 9600 Pro 256
80 gb
512 ram



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Posted by ReNo on Sat Aug 27th at 2:52pm 2005

I can somewhat vouch for Kingnic's method, as back before there was a built in backup tool was the only time I copied across content and I did it similar to how he describes.




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Posted by satchmo on Sat Aug 27th at 3:16pm 2005

When I got my new PC, I just re-installed and re-downloaded everything. It took just over an hour--not too bad.

I just started the process, and went to work. By the time I got back home, everything is installed.

Not really a hassle.



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Posted by French Toast on Sat Aug 27th at 3:21pm 2005

All you have to do, as Satch said, is download Steam, login with your account, and all you games will be available for download. Just spend some time downloading and updating them. I did that just before I went to bed, and in the mornign I had them all.




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Posted by Forceflow on Sat Aug 27th at 3:27pm 2005

Guys, I do have a download limit. Downloading HL2 + CS:S only will take me 3 gigabytes of bandwidth. And that's a lot.


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Posted by Tracer Bullet on Sat Aug 27th at 5:15pm 2005

KingNic is right, except all you have to do is move the GCF files over. Then when you go to my games, you click on each one you have telling it to "download" the content. It will actualy start trying to DL the games, but it will then figure out that you already have everything and finish. I've done it several times.




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Posted by Forceflow on Sat Aug 27th at 5:27pm 2005

This is very interesting, I think I found it:

http://support.steampowered.com/cgi-bin/steampowered.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=231&p_sid=Znviz3Oh




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Posted by Loco on Sat Aug 27th at 6:01pm 2005

Re: restoring game back-ups, the utility just creates an exe and a load of files. Run the exe to restore them, though I reckon copying gcfs is better.



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Posted by RaPtoR on Sat Aug 27th at 6:23pm 2005

When i needed to install steam at a second computer i just installed it, logged in and moved the entire SteamSteamApps folder through the network to the other computer. It worked.



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Posted by Forceflow on Sat Aug 27th at 8:02pm 2005

Thanks for all your answers people, but I think I'll stick to the official method.

(Move the whole Steam directory, delete the clientregistry.blob, run steam.)




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Posted by Myrk- on Sat Aug 27th at 11:52pm 2005

Yep that actually works. I do that method Forceflow.


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Posted by Crono on Sun Aug 28th at 12:44am 2005

Last time I tried, they made it so you couldn't just copy over GCF files. That was some time ago, so I don't know if it were changed back or not. But, obviously if it doesn't work use the backup utility ... this is what it's for.


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Posted by MisterBister on Sun Aug 28th at 10:04pm 2005

When i got a new computer, i just made backupfiles and then ran them on the new computer. The installation took about 15 minutes and then done, simple as that.





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