Can I move a game from one computer to another?

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kolkim

kolkim

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I just built a computer for my girl and we have 270gb of bandwidth we get close to most months (procrastination of calling for more). I want to know if I can move games, particularly Diablo 3 and Watch Dogs, from my hard drive to hers using a USB drive functioning properly. My thoughts are many programs have a Reinstall/repair/remove feature so if I were to repair it somehow, or maybe just download certain programs.

Is this a thing?
 
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ShadyHamster

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For diablo3 it's easy.
Copy diablo3 over
Install battlenet
Load up battlenet, it should then scan and/or ask where game files are located
It will ask for the location of 2 exe files, simply navigate to where you copied the game to and point it to the exe.

I've not had to do this with watchdogs and not sure how uplay handles this kind of thing.
 
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James Mason

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With steam games, if you "start" the download for the game, then cancel it shortly, and copy over all the game files to the folder on the new computer where steam made the game and then go to your library, right click the game, choose properties, local profiles tab, and click check integrity of game cache, it should save you most of the bandwidth of downloading the game and only fill in the missing files elsewhere.

But this may or maynot work, and will only work on games you own.

It might be possible to run games off a networked hard drive: http://www.overclock.net/t/1436938/steam-games-off-network-drive-solution
 
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