cabron Posted November 3, 2009 Share Posted November 3, 2009 I have a steam account with many games, but the thing is that in my house the DSL connection is ****ing slow. I am here at work and I can download any game I want, they have like 10MB connection. I am wondering if its possible to download one of these games, put the game into an USB thumb drive then transfer to my virtual machine windows system. Can this be done? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Majesticmerc MVC Posted November 3, 2009 MVC Share Posted November 3, 2009 You should be able to install the game on your work machine using Steam, then when it's downloaded and installed, you can create a backup of it ("Right click game > Properties > Create Backup..." or something like that, not on steam atm) which you can put onto a USB drive and then take home and install from. Take a big USB drive though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subject Delta Posted November 3, 2009 Share Posted November 3, 2009 Yes. Just right click the game in your steam files and select "Backup Game Files". Steam will create a backup that you can copy onto a thumb drive or DVD and restore at your leisure, obviously due to the size of most games on Steam, you may need a lot of space Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
That Guy Veteran Posted November 3, 2009 Veteran Share Posted November 3, 2009 You can back the game up to a DVD (or a USB pen drive, assuming it's big enough of course) by going to the menu and looking for "Backup games" or words to that effect. EDIT: Ah, two other people posted before me whilst I was typing, ignore me :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cabron Posted November 3, 2009 Author Share Posted November 3, 2009 Thank you guys, can a 8GB thumb drive be enough? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Majesticmerc MVC Posted November 3, 2009 MVC Share Posted November 3, 2009 Depends on the game, the backup is about the same size and the game on your hard disk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deep1234 Posted November 3, 2009 Share Posted November 3, 2009 depends on the size of the game you download, the steam client will show you the actual size it will be before doing the backup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StealMySoda Posted November 4, 2009 Share Posted November 4, 2009 If your using a thumb drive it's probably in FAT32 format. Make sure you select 700mb file size. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReDFoX2200 Posted November 4, 2009 Share Posted November 4, 2009 If your using a thumb drive it's probably in FAT32 format. Make sure you select 700mb file size. Format it with NTFS that is what I always do for flash drives bigger than 2GB u have to google how to format it NTFS. This option is not there by default Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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