Steam is a great platform to buy games, play and make new friends. Whenever you install a game on your Steam account it gets permanently attached to it. Then you can play them from any PC that has Steam installed. However, it will need to re-download and reinstall game(s) that aren’t present in hard drive of that PC. This process can be a pain for those who have bandwidth caps on their internet connection.

1. Steam Transfer Game To Another Computer

But don’t worry, you can easily transfer your Steam games from one PC to another without downloading or installing them. How to Transfer Steam Games to another PC: Open Steam directory on PC #1 C: Program Files (x86) Steam SteamApps You will find a folder named “ common” and files with.acf extension. Copy them to your USB drive or whatever the mode you are using to transfer files to PC #2. Install Steam client on the PC #2. Advertisement Now begin the installation the Game(s) you wish to play on PC #2. As soon the downloading starts, pause it and exit Steam.

After that open the Steam folder on PC #2, it will have the same path as PC #1. C: Program Files (x86) Steam SteamApps Paste the common folder and the.acf manifest files there. Launch Steam client, login your account and open the games list. Right-click the game of which you paused download in the earlier step.

How do I move Steam games to a new computer without re-downloading. Trying to move your games to another computer will not make Steam to. Steam game transfer.

Go to: Properties Local Files Verify Integrity of Game Cache Once the file validation is done, it might download a few small files or Start the game without re-downloading the entire gigabytes of data. Enjoy playing! How to move specific Steam Games to Other Drive: 1.

Copy the game folder from Steam Steamapps common to another drive. Open Steam Settings Downloads Steam Library Folders 3. Click Add Directory folder and then select game folder that you moved to other drive in Step #1 4.

It will automatically detect and add games present in the copied Steam library folder.

I have just bought a new computer and I have everything migrated over except for my Steam games. I looked in Program Files/Steam/ and I found a folder full of the games I have downloaded, but I do not know if it is safe to just copy these folders from one computer to another (seeing as a lot of other applications will not work if you do this), or is there another recommended way? I don't really feel like re-downloading all my games. I don't have the time nor bandwidth to download 20GB over a 1.5mbps connection. Is it possible to contact Valve and get a disk with the games on it? Unfortunately, no.

When you perform a regular Steam install, it does such things as installing Steam update service, which allows Steam client to update itself even when run from limiter user accounts. Trying to move your games to another computer will not make Steam to reinstall the service there (other things might be missing as well). An immediate consequence of such move is that Steam refuses to start from non-administrative accounts (complaining about missing service), which is unacceptable. – Jan 24 '15 at 20:20.

There are 2 options to do this. Method 1. Make a backup of Dota 2 via steam backup and restore function found under 'steam' tab. Copy this back up to new computer. Install steam, login to your steam account. All games (Including Dota 2) will be visible in your game library. Install Dota 2 via back up you created in step 4.

Steam Transfer Game To Another Computer

After install is complete, game 'MAY' update to download any missing or out dated file. Method 2. Copy “common” folder and “appmanifest570.acf” from PC 1 to a hard disk or USB. This stuff is located in steamapp folder. Most commonly the address will be C: Program Files(x86) Steam steamapps. Now go to PC 2 and install steam. Once steam is installed in PC 2, close it completely and then paste these copied “common” folder and “appmanifest570.acf” in steamapp folder in PC 2.

• So you’re running out of hard drive space (maybe on that fast-but-tiny SSD of yours), and you need to move a few of your PC games to another hard drive.
• Dec 21, 2008 Can you install a game from Steam to a different computer? You can easily transfer Steam games between computers/drives. Move topic to another.

Once this procedure is complete, you’ll be able to play Dota 2 on PC 2 as well. Whatever method you choose, I suggest that you validate game’s cache before starting game. You can do it by going in Dota 2 properties Local Files tab Verify Integrity of Game Cache. If you encounter any problem or error, 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.

Vpn client software. Like they got limited.

Target being the pc or files that you want to copy the games to. Open steam on the target PC. First we should ensure that the game is not on the target PC due to a started download of it. Right click on the game / properties / Local Files, and if the button 'Delete local game content' is enabled, then click it and do that process. The game should still list in your library, just greyed out now. Close steam on the target PC.

Ensure it is not open. (I don't think this is required, but just in case). From the source pc, either over the network of with usb sticks etc.

Copy the game folder from the source pc from a folder similar to this C: Program Files (x86) Steam SteamApps common to the similar location on the target pc. Once the copy has been completed. Open steam on the target pc, right click on the game in your library and click install.