- Jul 17, 2008
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I'm quite familiar with the process of moving games from on machine to another without downloading. I've done it a few times now.
I have a windows 7 based rig that has about 230Gig of games installed on an SSD and a HDD.
I added a second SSD and installed windows 10 on it.
I moved all of the games (in the "common" directory) from the old SSD to the HDD so they were all together in one place.
I formatted the the old (Win7) SSD and created the steam/steamapps/common directory and copied all of the games on to it so I have an SSD with the Win10 OS and a second SSD with just the games on it, and a 2TB HDD for backups etc.
I then went through the usual procedure of adding the new steam/steamapps/common directory into the Steam client and reinstalling the games.
About half of them do the check for local content and then install and the other half do the check for local content and then start re-downloading the game again. Typically it would seem to be all of the big games that are doing it like Wolfenstein The New Order, Far Cry 3 and Crysis 2.
On the other hand Half-Life 2, Metro 2033 and Portal 2 and the Talos principal have all reinstalled fine.
Any ideas? perhaps some of my games have corrupted in all the copying. Otherwise I'm going to be test my ISP's fair-usage policy this week!
I have a windows 7 based rig that has about 230Gig of games installed on an SSD and a HDD.
I added a second SSD and installed windows 10 on it.
I moved all of the games (in the "common" directory) from the old SSD to the HDD so they were all together in one place.
I formatted the the old (Win7) SSD and created the steam/steamapps/common directory and copied all of the games on to it so I have an SSD with the Win10 OS and a second SSD with just the games on it, and a 2TB HDD for backups etc.
I then went through the usual procedure of adding the new steam/steamapps/common directory into the Steam client and reinstalling the games.
About half of them do the check for local content and then install and the other half do the check for local content and then start re-downloading the game again. Typically it would seem to be all of the big games that are doing it like Wolfenstein The New Order, Far Cry 3 and Crysis 2.
On the other hand Half-Life 2, Metro 2033 and Portal 2 and the Talos principal have all reinstalled fine.
Any ideas? perhaps some of my games have corrupted in all the copying. Otherwise I'm going to be test my ISP's fair-usage policy this week!
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