Can this be possible with Steam?


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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?

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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