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  1. April 13, 2011, 03:02 AM #1
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    Default Installing a new OS means having to redownload steam games?

    I have like 60GB worth of steam games.

    Is buying Windows 7 going to be a nightmare in regards to Steam.
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    Default Re: Installing a new OS means having to redownload steam games?

    Use Steam's backup facility to create backups. Copy them somewhere then copy them back over to the new one. You can then restore those on a new machine. I did that to copy a bunch of games from my old XP machine to my current 7 machine (because a bandwidth limit prevents me redownloading everything), and everything worked fine.

    I believe you can also simply copy the things directly, though i'm not entirely sure on that.
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    Default Re: Installing a new OS means having to redownload steam games?

    When you upgrade Windows (at least from Vista to 7) you can keep all of your files.
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    Default Re: Installing a new OS means having to redownload steam games?

    Make steam backups onto a secondary drive before you reinstall your windows.
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    Default Re: Installing a new OS means having to redownload steam games?

    ill have to remind myself to do that next time, i just checked and i have 248GB of games in my steam folder currently installed
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    Default Re: Installing a new OS means having to redownload steam games?

    Quote Originally Posted by Jaketh View Post
    ill have to remind myself to do that next time, i just checked and i have 248GB of games in my steam folder currently installed
    If you actually have time to play that many games again....
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    Default Re: Installing a new OS means having to redownload steam games?

    I just keep mine installed on a D:\ drive.
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