How to download the game from a friend

[Mad Jack]

I have a very bad internet (limited) and i just asked my friend to download the game for me. But after game checks files it starts to download the whole game. What the solution?

[Ryan Fenton]

If you own the game on an account, you could:

Start downloading the game (to get the file structure in place),

Pause the download,

Disconnect from the internet to prevent automatic downloading after restart.

Reboot the computer (to reset the 'locked' files)

Copy the files over that your friend copied from their computer and brought over on a portable HD or laptop, to the same location on your steam download folder. Faster USB might be quicker than wireless, but maybe not.

Reconnect to internet.

Go into the properties for the game in Steam and have it check file integrity.

Don't know how much of that would work exactly as I'm imagining - but should work as long as you own the game.

But you don't seem to own the game on the account you're posting from at least so... probably won't work then. DRM will stop you there.

[Mad Jack]

Originally posted by Ryan Fenton:

If you own the game on an account, you could:

Start downloading the game (to get the file structure in place),

Pause the download,

Disconnect from the internet to prevent automatic downloading after restart.

Reboot the computer (to reset the 'locked' files)

Copy the files over that your friend copied from their computer and brought over on a portable HD or laptop, to the same location on your steam download folder. Faster USB might be quicker than wireless, but maybe not.

Reconnect to internet.

Go into the properties for the game in Steam and have it check file integrity.

Don't know how much of that would work exactly as I'm imagining - but should work as long as you own the game.

But you don't seem to own the game on the account you're posting from at least so... probably won't work then. DRM will stop you there.

We have it on the family library and when we tried before he shared it to me

[Ryan Fenton]

Cool - I say let it go and keep downloading for a while.

It's probably just 'stuck' downloading the main EXE, and will likely skip past a bunch of files after that. Denuvo has tons of bloat and it may force download of that one giant .exe. Odd if it doesn't let you keep unchanged files beyond that- but I haven't tried Family downloads, just local network stuff.

Here's maybe something that can help in a more direct-Steam way:

https://www.howtogeek.com/how-to-transfer-steam-games-over-your-local-network/

[Mad Jack]

Originally posted by Ryan Fenton:

Cool - I say let it go and keep downloading for a while.

It's probably just 'stuck' downloading the main EXE, and will likely skip past a bunch of files after that. Denuvo has tons of bloat and it may force download of that one giant .exe. Odd if it doesn't let you keep unchanged files beyond that- but I haven't tried Family downloads, just local network stuff.

Here's maybe something that can help in a more direct-Steam way:

https://www.howtogeek.com/how-to-transfer-steam-games-over-your-local-network/

Thanks mate, ill try

[SwampyDoctor]

On your friend's machine, right click the game -> Properties -> Installed Files -> Create Backup.
Then move folder with backup to your PC and click Steam at top left -> Restore Game Backup -> select your backup folder.

[Mad Jack]

Originally posted by SwampyDoctor:

On your friend's machine, right click the game -> Properties -> Installed Files -> Create Backup.
Then move folder with backup to your PC and click Steam at top left -> Restore Game Backup -> select your backup folder.

Thanks. Previous option didnt work, ill try that too.