(QUESTION) Ok, I already downloaded Elden Ring and transfered it to a usb

[Bricky strong]

I transfered the entire game to a new computer by way of the usb. I verify the Elden Ring in Steam and it says all files are verified and present but they still want me to download the game.
LOL is this some sort of joke?
The game's downloaded, its on my new PC but it says it has to download it and I have to wait 7 hours because my internet is slow and its already there.
The game's already there, wtf?
Can anyone explain this madness to me?

[dark-breed]

The problem is steam does not accept a folder without checking the integrity even if you use the Backup function to Transfer a game to a other Computer it will check the file integrity what can take with this game a long time.

[Bricky strong]

Originally posted by Alby:

try cancelling the download and uninstalling everything. then delete any ER files in the steamapp folder. close steam. retransfer the ER game folder into steamapp folder, then click install. Instead of installing the entire game, it'll detect any files already present and download the ones you may be missing. verify afterwards of course to be safe

At least that's what i do, as i transfer from external ssd to main ssd back and forth regularly

I picked this as the answer because I followed what he said and it did actually work, although I ended up having to do some things differently because there was some complications.
There's other comments in here that are probably very valuable but some advice I didn't take because now I've got things working.
Thanks to everyone that tried to help.

[Darkstorm]

Originally posted by Bricky strong:

Another problem of a different sort I found is my usb thumb stick which holds like 500 gb is really not very fast. Its inconsistent with its transfer speed. It will transfer up 40 MBs for a bit but then it tapers off to like 2MB and even into 'kilobytes' or even 0. Sorry if I got the ' ' wrong, you know what I mean.
I was thinking its probably because its not powered.

I have SSD that behaves like that. I still have it connected but I don't use it at all. It's only good to be a data storage, but being this faulty I wouldn't keep anything important on it anyway. When I had Windows on it, system would be freezing up to 30 seconds once in a while. If I would install Windows on something else and play game installed on this drive the game would freeze up to 30 seconds with system being responsive. My SSD was budget one, and I found plenty of opinions of same issue and manufacturer saying IT works as intended. They blamed the controller. Now I have 2 nvme drives totaling at 3 TB storage and no issues at all, but that garbage SSD is still doing it's thing if I tried copy files on it.

[Bricky strong]

Originally posted by Darkstorm:

Originally posted by Bricky strong:

Another problem of a different sort I found is my usb thumb stick which holds like 500 gb is really not very fast. Its inconsistent with its transfer speed. It will transfer up 40 MBs for a bit but then it tapers off to like 2MB and even into 'kilobytes' or even 0. Sorry if I got the ' ' wrong, you know what I mean.
I was thinking its probably because its not powered.

I have SSD that behaves like that. I still have it connected but I don't use it at all. It's only good to be a data storage, but being this faulty I wouldn't keep anything important on it anyway. When I had Windows on it, system would be freezing up to 30 seconds once in a while. If I would install Windows on something else and play game installed on this drive the game would freeze up to 30 seconds with system being responsive. My SSD was budget one, and I found plenty of opinions of same issue and manufacturer saying IT works as intended. They blamed the controller. Now I have 2 nvme drives totaling at 3 TB storage and no issues at all, but that garbage SSD is still doing it's thing if I tried copy files on it.

So you have 2 nvme drives in the mother board?
Or do you mean you have a Powered, Portable, Nvme hard drive at 3 tbs that works flawless?
If you can get the latter, that would be really sweet, but also having fast hard drives is nice too. I'm using mx500s and 860 evo ssds, they get the job done.

[Michel Baie]

Originally posted by Bricky strong:

Originally posted by Hibachi:

To avoid any problems like that, properly archive your installed games.

Right click on the game title -> properties -> installed files -> backup.
Then put that folder archive in the USB storage.
On your other PC, click on Steam -> restore game backup.

It's way less finnicky than transferring folders.

And if your game happen to be fragmented in a lot of little files, it's also quite faster than copy/pasting.

That sounds like the right way to do it, next time.
Another problem of a different sort I found is my usb thumb stick which holds like 500 gb is really not very fast. Its inconsistent with its transfer speed. It will transfer up 40 MBs for a bit but then it tapers off to like 2MB and even into 'kilobytes' or even 0. Sorry if I got the ' ' wrong, you know what I mean.
I was thinking its probably because its not powered.
Also, I had a couple corrupted files that I will have to download still But I got 35GB of good data that I didn't have to download.
I'd call this a C+ success, so not that great.
I bet you could get a powered portable hard drive, usb connecting, with a m.2 or fast ssd built in that could transfer stuff in seconds or minutes, would be nice thing to have.

So far the best part of data transfer over download as at least I'm not tying up my internet.
I didn't report back sooner because the process took so freaking long.......ah well.

I have a pretty crap internet, so most of my large games are archived for future use on a HDD. Works quite well TBH.
If you plan to do the same, It's not an HDD that's going to be actively used, so you can prioritize storage capacity over speed. Sure, it's nice to have a fast transfer, but the thing that's going to take some time is the compressing / decompressing of the files. Which takes some time even on a SSD.

On a side note, this process is also a LOT faster on the Deck (and I guess, Linux in general) than on a Windows PC, so it's nice to bring that unit wherever there's good wi-fi and archive stuff.

[Bricky strong]

Originally posted by Hibachi:

Originally posted by Bricky strong:

That sounds like the right way to do it, next time.
Another problem of a different sort I found is my usb thumb stick which holds like 500 gb is really not very fast. Its inconsistent with its transfer speed. It will transfer up 40 MBs for a bit but then it tapers off to like 2MB and even into 'kilobytes' or even 0. Sorry if I got the ' ' wrong, you know what I mean.
I was thinking its probably because its not powered.
Also, I had a couple corrupted files that I will have to download still But I got 35GB of good data that I didn't have to download.
I'd call this a C+ success, so not that great.
I bet you could get a powered portable hard drive, usb connecting, with a m.2 or fast ssd built in that could transfer stuff in seconds or minutes, would be nice thing to have.

So far the best part of data transfer over download as at least I'm not tying up my internet.
I didn't report back sooner because the process took so freaking long.......ah well.

I have a pretty crap internet, so most of my large games are archived for future use on a HDD. Works quite well TBH.
If you plan to do the same, It's not an HDD that's going to be actively used, so you can prioritize storage capacity over speed. Sure, it's nice to have a fast transfer, but the thing that's going to take some time is the compressing / decompressing of the files. Which takes some time even on a SSD.

On a side note, this process is also a LOT faster on the Deck (and I guess, Linux in general) than on a Windows PC, so it's nice to bring that unit wherever there's good wi-fi and archive stuff.

lol, I have win 10 pretty well figured out, Linux is not something I look forward to venturing into. I can see why guys would want to use it because I bet its a light weight os, but the compatability issues I've heard of are a turn off. I'm already rocking all AMD so I guess I have patience, they're drivers are quite excellent of late too.
It sounds like Linux is good for doing work.
On a side note, in this PC I'm still rocking an old school western digital gold, I'm going to use for videos, movies and Skyrim....lol. Its 2 tb and with all the mods you put on that, plus it still scored 86% on user benchmark so thats an A-. No, for doing this transfer I'm using usb stick that I don't have here at the moment transfering to a mx500 ssd ''1000''gb but really 931gb.

[Darkstorm]

Originally posted by Bricky strong:

Originally posted by Darkstorm:

I have SSD that behaves like that. I still have it connected but I don't use it at all. It's only good to be a data storage, but being this faulty I wouldn't keep anything important on it anyway. When I had Windows on it, system would be freezing up to 30 seconds once in a while. If I would install Windows on something else and play game installed on this drive the game would freeze up to 30 seconds with system being responsive. My SSD was budget one, and I found plenty of opinions of same issue and manufacturer saying IT works as intended. They blamed the controller. Now I have 2 nvme drives totaling at 3 TB storage and no issues at all, but that garbage SSD is still doing it's thing if I tried copy files on it.

So you have 2 nvme drives in the mother board?
Or do you mean you have a Powered, Portable, Nvme hard drive at 3 tbs that works flawless?
If you can get the latter, that would be really sweet, but also having fast hard drives is nice too. I'm using mx500s and 860 evo ssds, they get the job done.

I have 2 nvmes Samsung's 970 (2TB and 1 TB) in mobo(1 one of them is in adapter in pcie tiny slot), SSD plugged to sata and 4tb external HDD through USB 3.0. It's SSD that halts every once in a while(if i copy files it drops to 0, if system was on it it would freeze entire computer up to 30 s, if only game I currently play then game stops responding up to 30s). It's not USB though. Have you tried copy files between those SSDs and see if something like that happens too, because it happens even when I copy from nvme to SSD and back without ever using the USB external drive.

[Bricky strong]

I have 2 nvmes Samsung's 970 (2TB and 1 TB) in mobo(1 one of them is in adapter in pcie tiny slot), SSD plugged to sata and 4tb external HDD through USB 3.0. It's SSD that halts every once in a while(if i copy files it drops to 0, if system was on it it would freeze entire computer up to 30 s, if only game I currently play then game stops responding up to 30s). It's not USB though. Have you tried copy files between those SSDs and see if something like that happens too, because it happens even when I copy from nvme to SSD and back without ever using the USB external drive.
Just tried a copy paste of a 800MB movie from my HDD to SSD and it was 3 seconds, maybe, maybe 2, it was fast.

[Darkstorm]

Originally posted by Bricky strong:

Just tried a copy paste of a 800MB movie from my HDD to SSD and it was 3 seconds, maybe, maybe 2, it was fast.

Copy something bigger, my faulty SSD can run for minutes before that 30s death happens. Are you playing games installed on both of those ssds? No freezes at all?

[Bricky strong]

Originally posted by Darkstorm:

Originally posted by Bricky strong:

Just tried a copy paste of a 800MB movie from my HDD to SSD and it was 3 seconds, maybe, maybe 2, it was fast.

Copy something bigger, my faulty SSD can run for minutes before that 30s death happens. Are you playing games installed on both of those ssds? No freezes at all?

I'll try an Elden Ring file, give me a bit.

[Bricky strong]

Ok, I just did ''Data3 bdt'' its 2.47 GB and it took 14 seconds give or take. It would of taken at least 10 minutes on the usb thumb stick.

[sangresitadeuS]

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[Darkstorm]

Originally posted by Bricky strong:

Ok, I just did ''Data3 bdt'' its 2.47 GB and it took 14 seconds give or take. It would of taken at least 10 minutes on the usb thumb stick.

The USB 2.0 is much slower than SATA 3 so it takes time, thing is that you have those sudden drops to 0. I think it's normal though when you copy multiple files, for me it would die out for 30 seconds randomly and not copy anything during that period.