battlefield bad company 2 on steam or retail

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moomoo

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I bought bf2bc2 on speacial for a friend on steam. Can you copy the files from the retail version that is kept up to date into steam so you don't have to download it. Its a bit of a big download on steam.
 
moomoo said:
I bought bf2bc2 on speacial for a friend on steam. Can you copy the files from the retail version that is kept up to date into steam so you don't have to download it. Its a bit of a big download on steam.
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I'm pretty sure that's not possible, unfortunately.
 
I have come across a few ways to do it. It was even mentioned on one of the steam by one of the techs. But i never really bothered to put effort into them.

It is worth a shot.
 
otherwise, if it's on the web africa freezone / local steam mirror then that's another option instead of using precious international b/w!
 
moomoo said:
I bought bf2bc2 on speacial for a friend on steam. Can you copy the files from the retail version that is kept up to date into steam so you don't have to download it. Its a bit of a big download on steam.
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You could transfer steam to steam via steam backup and restore, that works really good if one or more person can't download the game. You can't however copy retail to steam...
 
Pr⊕phet said:
You could transfer steam to steam via steam backup and restore, that works really good if one or more person can't download the game. You can't however copy retail to steam...
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^ this... I have tried in the past to use the files for the retail version, but steam ends up either redownloading/replacing ALL or at least most of the files anyway. I'm sure there are ways to do it, but like people have already mentioned, it might be worth it to just download it all from steam and save some hassle.
 
moomoo said:
I bought bf2bc2 on speacial for a friend on steam. Can you copy the files from the retail version that is kept up to date into steam so you don't have to download it. Its a bit of a big download on steam.
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Hindsight is 20/20 but I would never buy any big games off steam unless I could be assured of being able to copy the game from a friend who already has it installed via Steam OR i know i can get it off the WebAfrica Freezone.
 
You can do this. Let your friend start the BBC2 download and let it download about 2 megs or so then pause it. Next copy your up to date game folder to his/her steamapps/BBC2 folder, overwrite all files in there. Finally resume the download and Steam will see the game files are there and the download will go really fast. Once done, play and enjoy. :)

Steam will download any files that don't match it's database, this is usually the game .exe only.
 
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