Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. How do I copy Steam game files from another PC while the game's still downloading? Ask Question. Asked 7 years, 11 months ago. Active 7 years, 1 month ago. Viewed k times. This is a different issue than merely copying game files which has been answered many times , because no answers I've found on here are applicable and will work: Today I bought Borderlands 2, which my brother already has installed.
Is there anything to do about this? Improve this question. Add a comment. I made it many times, and it works also on external HDD, that is easy if you want to show some games to your friends when you don't have your PC with you. Install Steam, then just copy the directories over onto the new computer, use the same filepaths etc And you will need to delete the clientregistry.
Don't worry Steam will create a new one when you run it on your new computer. That's what I always do. If you encounter any problem or error, this post contains complete procedure with images and a troubleshot guide as well. Having read all the answers I think I had a unique situation where I had already started downloading the game. Attempts to copy the game still had steam thinking it should download. So here are a list of steps I think includes the other answers and my situation.
When taking through this, I will refer to stuff as source and target. Sign in Sign up. Instantly share code, notes, and snippets. Last active Oct 5, Code Revisions 3 Stars 41 Forks 3. Embed What would you like to do? Embed Embed this gist in your website. Share Copy sharable link for this gist. Learn more about clone URLs. Download ZIP. Framing the issue 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.
Approach Using steamcmd you can use any computer to download steam games. Installing the game back at your gaming rig. 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. Put the copied game folder from the external device to the same location on the new computer.
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