Copy steam games to other PCs
Some time ago it was very easy to copy steam game files. start the download, close steam and copy the files to steam/steamapps/common/.
But now this folder wont appear until the download has finished. It is in steam/steamapps/downloading/. Coping the files there wont solve the problem, because steam saves the progress in steam/steamapps/downloading/state__.patch files, which are not editable with a usual editor like gedit, MS editor or MS wordpad. Is there a workaround?
I want to copy the program files, not the progress in a game.
Best Answer
If you try to download a game and stop the progress, it creates the file/folder structure required. Close steam as an appication, then once you copy over the game from *\Steam\SteamApps\common* then you need to find the config file (normally, just look based on the time/date stamp on the files under *\Steam\SteamApps* - it will probably be the latest file created) then you need to open the config file via notepad and change the "StateFlags" to > "4"; Then re-open steam - and it will re-validate the game files, easy.
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