How Long Does Steam Take to Restore a Game?


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Well, for the past three hours, Steam has been "restoring" Team Fortress 2. It says it's currently creating a cache for the game files. Do you think I would be better off downloading it again?

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Hello

Well, for the past three hours, Steam has been "restoring" Team Fortress 2. It says it's currently creating a cache for the game files. Do you think I would be better off downloading it again?

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Yes, I don't see why not. If you got a fast connection, Go for it.

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It definitely shouldn't take 3 hours.

I think it took me about 15 min for me to restore about 2 weeks ago.

The latest update shouldn't have changed much in the way of the backup file size.

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Hello

Well, for the past three hours, Steam has been "restoring" Team Fortress 2. It says it's currently creating a cache for the game files. Do you think I would be better off downloading it again?

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Steam's backup/restore system is stupidly buggy and unreliable. Have a look at your network monitor ? you'll notice that you are in fact downloaing it again! Once it starts taking hours to "restore", it's usually given up, and just started downloading stuff from Steam servers again.

I would NEVER use Steam's backup system, as you can manually back everything up much more reliably and quickly. Just backup your steamapps folder. That's all you need to d:):)

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Restore is broken in the client I think. I have 46GB worth of Steam games. Backing them up took 2 hours. Restore took over 12.

I have 105 GB worth and it took me 1 hour to back them up to my usb HDD :p.

Don't use the backup tool. Just copy your Steamapps folder (lcoated in Program Files\Steam\) to other drive. To restore, just copy it back to the same place.

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I'll set to download it again! Boo!

Question thoguh, will it remember all the settings and things I had in the game?

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No. :( The game settings aren't stored with the games. The games that support Steam Cloud will still have everything saved, but the non-Cloud ones will have to be reconfigured.

@ozgeek: Yeah, I usually just copy the whole Steam folder, but I wanted the uninstaller and start menu icons to be recreated and the Steam backup is the easiest way to do that. :) (Or used to be)

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I thought the shortcuts are recreated when you restart stream after restoring the folder and after Steam has assess the copied SteamApps folder, updating when necessary.

SOME games do retain savegames in the SteamApps folder (especially HL2 games), but you will need to re-setup settings like video, captions, audio settings up again. But savegames are saved, if you restore SteamApps. Other games will have their savegames stored in your Saved Games folder located in your Windows profile. Others would be stored in the Documents folder itself (eerrk).

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