Buying game and downloading repack?

[76561198214057988]

I want to buy Tom Clancy's Rainbow six siege, but since the download is huge I want to know if I can buy the game and download a repack and paste it in the steam folder instead.

Thanks

[Scorpios Society]

I think you will need some files from steam to run it as steam game other then that I will run as non steam game .

[76561198214057988]

Originally posted by Task Force 131:

I think you will need some files from steam to run it as steam game other then that I will run as non steam game .

How do I get the steam files?

[Scorpios Society]

I think you need to push download and download for 2% of the game then copy the rest in the folder but it might not work .

[Scorpios Society]

I have drm free games I will try it to night to see if it work or not .

[76561198214057988]

Originally posted by Task Force 131:

I have drm free games I will try it to night to see if it work or not .

Cool. Thanks a lot!

[Scorpios Society]

will i did not work for me idk if the DRM free games or

[SAMURAI]

Hey there, this is 4 years late but I have a very simple solution if anybody still needs it (I decided to reply here because this was the first thread that appeared when I googled the issue). I figured it out, it all has to do with the manifest file which tells Steam if a game exists or not and if it does, what state is it in and what to do with it?
So first of all note the AppID of your game. You can find it either by right-clicking your game in Steam and selecting Properties then Updates. You will find the AppID at the bottom of the window OR you can look up your game on SteamDB website and find its ID there. Next, copy your game files into "YourSteamLibrary\steamapps\common\YourGame\" and note the exact name of your game folder. I will be using Red Dead Redemption 2 as an example so the full path is like so : "..\steamapps\common\Red Dead Redemption 2"
After copying your game, go back to the steamapps folder "YourSteamLibrary\steamapps\" and create a text file and name it "appmanifest_AppID.acf" (AppID is the number you get from properties or SteamDB).
In this example, the file for RDR2 would look like this : appmanifest_1174180.acf
Open the file and paste these lines (you might want to keep this saved somewhere as a template to be able to use it in the future) :

"AppState"
{
"AppID" "APPID"
"Universe" "1"
"installdir" "YourGameFolderName"
"StateFlags" "1026"
}
Replace "APPID" with your AppID.
"Universe" just tells Steam if this is public or beta or dev. "1" means public so keep it as is.
Replace "YourGameFolderName" with your exact game folder name.
"1026" just means that the game needs an update which will trigger an integrity check later.
So in this example, the manifest file for RDR2 would be like so :

"AppState"
{
"AppID" "1174180"
"Universe" "1"
"installdir" "Red Dead Redemption 2"
"StateFlags" "1026"
}
Finally just restart Steam or start it if it was closed before and watch it do its thing. It will install an update if there's one then it will immediately start an integrity check and download/fix any missing/corrupted files.

[Cathulhu]

OP was also very not subtle talking about pirating games. As if there is a legal DRM free version of Rainbow Six Siege.

[John]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.