Scraggles Posted May 4, 2009 Share Posted May 4, 2009 I'm getting a friend into these games and his internet is handicapped. It's one of those bargain cable connections from time warner. He can play games without any lag, but his downloads cap at 70kb/s and it takes him forever to download anything. I was hoping I could download them onto a portable drive and give them to him that way. I googled but only found steam related downloads or mods that were unrelated to the games. Is it even possible? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sethos Posted May 4, 2009 Share Posted May 4, 2009 Right click on the game in the steam game overview, choose "Backup Game Files" and you can throw that backup on the portable drive, install on his PC and he should be golden. In case you don't have access to the games, ask him to lend you the account and download them. Else I don' think it's possible, unless there's some sort of pre-load available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mathachew Veteran Posted May 4, 2009 Veteran Share Posted May 4, 2009 You could take the entire SteamApps folder and copy that. You'll want to install Steam on his computer and then put the files there. Steam will, I think, do a integrity check on those files, but that'll save you from having to download them. You could also try to get your hands on the actual DVDs. I've moved the steam files before because I didn't want to redownload everything after a format, so I know it works. Edit: Or use the official backup option mentioned above :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vice Posted May 4, 2009 Share Posted May 4, 2009 You need to have Steam installed to play these games legally. What you can do is download TF2 for him and then copy your game data to a Thumb Stick / DVD (TF2 is about 6GB in Size) and then move those files in to his Steam directory and re-start his Steam. It will automatically detect the game as about 95% complete and then download a few necessary files. Of course he would still need the game purchased on his own Steam account for it to detect the game at all. Alternatively you can buy TF2 in a retail shop and give that to him but he will need to do some pretty large updates (As the boxed copy was released a long time ago and isn't up to date with the latest game files). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giantpotato Posted May 4, 2009 Share Posted May 4, 2009 Just copy the folders for the games in your program files\steam directory then copy them to his steam folder. Or use the backup option from within Steam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scraggles Posted May 4, 2009 Author Share Posted May 4, 2009 Awesome. I'll try your suggestions guys. I'm using a 500gb FreeAgent Go drive so space isn't an issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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