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Ok so some of you guys knowI finally got my steam acc .
I went and got a backup of Kiruna's steam folder but when I try to run it on my pc it keeps on asking for a product key. Note the backup folder only contains her free games.
I have no idea how to add the games to my folders - I really dont have the cap to dl them hence why I got the games from her.
Any help would be appreciated.
Did she gave you the whole steam installation as it is or just the steamapps ?
Afaik
x) you should install steam and let it load up with your login
x) then close it completely
x) copy over the steamapps from her folder into the folder where you installed steam
or is this an actual back via steam's backup and restore ?
Why do people insist on copying Steam folders where you often encounter issues or find you forgot to copy something when Steam has a GREAT backup utility that is super easy to use.
Because it takes longer using the backup. Hell it took a very long time for me to just copy over my 600 GB of steam games to another hard drive.Quote:
Originally Posted by MOnk
Wyvern did you have those games in your steam list already?
Ive got the games (most of them in my folder). I couldnt remember all the names of the free games we copied. But we didnt copy her folder, she made a backup of just those games.
Monk - WE USED THE BACKUP UTILITY.
I'm bit confused here as only a game that's not been installed will ask for a key, or it's one of her games that's installed via a disc.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wyvern
If you already have the game in your library then you could try to start and stop it's download in your games library, then right click on it, view cd key, write it down, delete it's local content and then finally when it asks for the key then just enter it.
...or is it a game you don't have that's asking for the key ? I'm quite sure you could select which games you want to restore when you use the utility, then just restore all the titles you have except that game.
Ok thanks Prophet I will give that a try, as far as I know the ones we chose where the ones available at the moment on the steam Free to play. Its not letting me select any specific games at this point, it just immediately asks for a product key. Will report back once I have tried that.
Hmm ok I just had a look none of them offers me a cd key . . .
Does it say for which title it is asking a key? Maybe you should obtain a key for the website for the f2p game that's wanting one ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Wyvern
Only other option I can think of is to log in with kiruna's account ( you'd obviously need her to give you the key pass as well ), try the restore, hopefully it works.
Then log in again with your account. Otherwise I really don't know what's wrong there.
:edit
Else go visit again and have her backup each title separately that you want so that you can restore them separately and find the offender if it occurs again. Other thing I would try is more involving where you copy from her <steam>\steam apps\< matching ncf > and <steam>\steam apps\common\< matching game> to your steam installation ex
from her installation
<steam>\steam apps\Bambie.ncf
<steam>\steam apps\common\Bambie
to your installation
ncf goes here in <steam>\steam apps\
game folder goes in <steam>\steam apps\common\
Not the preferred method as monk said, but it does work as well, but can sometimes "upset" steam.
Thanks Prophet, that is whats been bugging me as well is that it doesnt tell me which product key it wants.
Otherwise I will make a plan to go visit her again and try just copying the folders directly rather than making a backup.
Cool, see my edit. That's how I did few titles last time between me and partner's pc.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wyvern
Yea I suspect that will be my only option since I cant find what is causing the unhappiness :)
I can survive a few more weeks :P
Thanks again for the help
Have you been to the product page and started the download from there?
Yep, that is where I got the downloads from. Paused them after 10mins.
Don't you have a 4 meg line and a WA account?Quote:
Originally Posted by Wyvern
Yes I do but for some reason dls are horribly slow.
must be that sat3/seacom issues still hanging around.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wyvern
My biggest worry is more that they wont dl via the freezone - we have installed the steam watch tho so I will give it a try later today again. I got the msg that our lines should be fine again.
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Originally Posted by rockn
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Created:2011-02-25
Expires:2012-02-25
Not very reassuring imho. So it's either filling in survyes or paying money for the points, not really and totally free which isn't a total surprise. I'd rather go with g2play if I really must go a route like this.
Do not trust.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pr⊕phet
If you have steam watch it should go to freezone, that is, assuming it is on WA's servers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wyvern
I hope these are still the WA server addresses.
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<address>41.185.60.43</address>
<address>41.185.24.21</address>
those are the servers still. Installed Frey on my side to compare with what Wyvren gets. Both apps block some traffic but if I use the resource monitor I can still see about 20 odd connections going to other international servers.
Busy testing firewall rules on my router to see if I can force it to go where I want.
any updates here ?
/waits in suspense *erm*
Hahaha Prophet!
Im getting the files again from Kiruna unless Nima can confirm that its downloading via freezone - I have a limited cap at home and I have a brat of a younger brother who is abusing the net (10gigs on youtube alone this month . . .)
DAmn that's a lot of youtube! Tell him to stop watching Justin Bieber music videos in 1080p. :P
Feck I think I could live with that - at the moment its vids on how to paint airplane models, as well as how to play the harmonica - he is good with music instruments but it does get a bit much :P