Steam Game Transfer

[Magicite Spring]

Me and my friend both recently bought The Witcher off steam. Unfortunately, in the flat I am in right now I have piss-poor internet connection, so downloading the 11GBs for The Witcher isn't really an option. My friend, who has downloaded it, transferred the game data from his computer to mine, the idea being that when I start downloading Steam will recognise the data there and just play. However Steam just starts downloading normally.

So does anyone know if this can be done? Or am I just wasting my time?

I just want to clarify, I have bought The Witcher myself and have my own key, I just don't want to download the data.

 

[DoPo]

Erm, I am not really sure how it works (never tried it) but try the following, think it might work:

1. Start the download
2. Pause it
3. Quit Steam
4. Copy over the game data.
5. Start Steam
6. Validate the game data.


See if this helps. The idea is that when you start the download, you'll count as "having" the game. Copying the game files should work then and after that, you should be able to validate the game cache. If it works (dunno if Steam keeps a separate list of which files were acquired or not, I'm hoping not) then Steam would most probably still have to D/L something, but certainly not 11 GB. Probably several files or something. In effect, the progress bar should jump to ~99% or something.

Just a theory, as I said. You will be my guinea pig.

EDIT: A quick Google search told me that you should be able to do it. Read more here [http://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/61784/is-there-a-way-to-transfer-a-free-game-downloaded-on-one-steam-account-to-anothe].

 

[Magicite Spring]

Erm, I am not really sure how it works (never tried it) but try the following, think it might work:

1. Start the download
2. Pause it
3. Quit Steam
4. Copy over the game data.
5. Start Steam
6. Validate the game data.


See if this helps. The idea is that when you start the download, you'll count as "having" the game. Copying the game files should work then and after that, you should be able to validate the game cache. If it works (dunno if Steam keeps a separate list of which files were acquired or not, I'm hoping not) then Steam would most probably still have to D/L something, but certainly not 11 GB. Probably several files or something. In effect, the progress bar should jump to ~99% or something.

Just a theory, as I said. You will be my guinea pig.

EDIT: A quick Google search told me that you should be able to do it. Read more here [http://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/61784/is-there-a-way-to-transfer-a-free-game-downloaded-on-one-steam-account-to-anothe].

Thanks for that! I'll try this out and see if I can get it to work.

 

[SlaveNumber23]

I've done this before in transferring steam games from my PC to my laptop and it worked, yet inconsistently. Some games would recognize the files I had copied over and use them while other games would just ignore the files and download new ones.