Steam help!

[boodah]

hey guys
i had to reinstall my pc - cheer.

i got cod black ops and mw2, and dawn of war2 as well... how best to go about re-installing without having to download 23492834934657843 gb?

i really want to play some mw2 (especially after a crap day at work)... but i don't want to run up the gigage bill... any bright ideas?

[Wolfman]

Depends... Do you have the original steam files still? If so install Steam. Let the downloads start for those games. Close steam. Replace the files in the steamapps folder i.e. "Steam\steamapps\<user name here>" with the old files. Start steam again. Watch as you "download" a few hundred MBs per second. Then choose to verify each game to ensure it "downloaded" correctly. It may ask to download x amount of files that failed to verify. Barring that I suggest you try to get someone in your city willing to let you have the steam backup files. Hope this is useful.

[Fivel]

If you are in the JHB area, PM me and I can get the steam files to you......save you huge time

[murraybiscuit]

what does the "backup and restore games" menu item do then?

edit: i see... he lost the files.

[Wolfman]

what does the "backup and restore games" menu item do then?

edit: i see... he lost the files.

Oh dear...

[wheunis]

what does the "backup and restore games" menu item do then?

edit: i see... he lost the files.

And some lucky ISP could just be cashing in on this little debacle...

[m3n4ce]

My secret is that I never uninstall/reinstall Steam.
When i format my PC i simply keep the Steam Folder in tact. After reformat is done I simply start the Steam.exe file and whalla everything happy. It automatically reinstalls the Steam Service and just keeps on working.

just my 5c