Burn a cd

[dum monke]

Could i copy my steam games onto cds? Or am i dumb

[Kargor]

You can use the Steam backup feature to make backup files, which you can then burn to your CD.

As to why you would want to do that -- I'm assuming you know? 'Cause I sure don't.

[Cathal]

As said by Kargor. Restoring backups would just cut down download time, but a flashdrive would be much cheaper and quicker.

If you think you can put in on a disc for sale purposes, not that I'm suggesting you are, the account still verifies that a person purchased a game regardless of whether they have the data for it, so it would just be useless in the end.

[dum monke]

Originally posted by Cathal:

As said by Kargor. Restoring backups would just cut down download time, but a flashdrive would be much cheaper and quicker.

If you think you can put in on a disc for sale purposes, not that I'm suggesting you are, the account still verifies that a person purchased a game regardless of whether they have the data for it, so it would just be useless in the end.

No not to sale I was wondering if I could put all my games on a cd to download to my new computet because i dont want to waste all my data downloading them. Im at a 30g data plan atm untill i can get more

[StickyPawz]

What's stopping you from copying steam files from your old hdd directly to the new pc?

[Wolfpig]

Originally posted by J^ke:

No not to sale I was wondering if I could put all my games on a cd to download to my new computet because i dont want to waste all my data downloading them. Im at a 30g data plan atm untill i can get more

You could do that....but rember on a CD only for around 700MB....which would mean you would need a lot if you librabry is a few gigs big.....if it where dvds you would need a few less (but probably still a lot)

Originally posted by StickyPaws:

What's stopping you from copying steam files from your old hdd directly to the new pc?

Maybe his old pc is very old and his new would not have proper connections for it.
Remembering the time when i had to copy files from an old IDE HDD to the sata ones....had to buy a connector and the copying speed was...horrible low.

In the end only moved important stuff to the new hdd and redownloaded games etc as that was much "faster".

[Cathal]

Or swapping the hard drive as is?

[dum monke]

Old computet is a labtop lol

[Cathal]

Can technically still remove the hdd. They generally all use SaTA cables. But an external or flashdrive is quicker and cheaper.

[wuddih]

normal hdd is $40-50 per tb.

[The Mink]

As everyone else here has said you could use a CD yes. however a FlashDrive would be way faster and do remember you must copy the App ID's aswell or the games will simply re-download rather than discover existing files.

[Wolfpig]

As mentioned in the other thread of the other person (and only came in mind there) you could also try to connect your Laptop & PC per Lan Cable and copy the stuff.
But depending on the speeds of the drives it can also take a longer time (and of course both machines must be running at the same time for it)

[Hannibal]

Easier if you just buy a Usb3 hard drive. That's what I do.

[Cathal]

Originally posted by wuddih:

normal hdd is $40-50 per tb.

Just to add:

And a ten pack of CDs is $9 on ebay. A game like CS:GO is about 10GB and a CD holds 700MB. That would go about 15 discs already.

Now DVDs would hold more, but also cost more.

Whereas a 32-64GB flashdrive would be around $20 and be reusable for many things.

[dum monke]

thank you all