So I know (by trying it out) that you can copy Steam game files from one PC to another and make the game run with the copied files. 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:
May 7, 2014 - Has anyone else encountered a download loop where you get a few megs. To 'in queue' or 'update required' and the download returns to null? You could try stopping the download, deleting all local content for the game,.
Today I bought Borderlands 2, which my brother already has installed. When I tried to just copy the game files over to my PC, I noticed there was no Borderlands folder anywhere in SteamApps and its subdirectories, but only a folder called 49520 inside SteamAppsdownloading.
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So I tried just copying the game files to that folder while Steam was closed, started Steam again, and... nothing. It just went on downloading the game like there were no new files inside that folder.
Is there anything to do about this?
2 Answers
Download Game Pc
To copy Steam game files from another computer to save you having to download the full game, simply do the following;
Steam Download Games
- Cancel the download on your machine and delete local files for the game
- Close Steam on your computer
- Copy the whole folder Borderlands 2 from your brother's PC into
SteamSteamAppscommon - Delete the .exe since every user has it's own .exe if Steam DRM is used (what BL2 in fact does)
- Tell Steam to download Borderlands 2 and it will discover the existing files
- Verify files to get your own .exe and make sure nothing is corrupted
Just a quick thing, before you restart Steam after copying the files, you MAY wish to copy the relevant Appmanifest_xxxx.acf file too, where the x's are a number specific to each product on Steam. to find out WHICH appmanifest file is the one for the game you're using, visit the game's page on Steampowered.com and you'll notice the URL has a number as the last part of it.
Steam Download Game Update Loop Free
For example, Dark Souls 2's page is http://store.steampowered.com/app/236430/ ... that 236430 will correspond to a file in steam/steamapps/ called 'Appmanifest_236430.acf' . Copy that into the same directory on YOUR PC, so for example D:/games/Steam/Steamapps/ or whatever your steam location is. It goes in Steamapps, NOT in steamapps/common and NOT in the same directory for the game either. That is important.
Steam Update Download
THEN you should be able to open steam, tell it to download, then verify the installation. and you should be hunky-dory.
protected by Frank♦Sep 30 '14 at 23:04
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