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Transferring Steam games to a new PC; how does that work?

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I have built my new gaming machine however currently i don't have my 2TB game HDD in it (it's in my current machine). When i do move it over how do i go about getting Steam to realise the games are there?

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In the bottom left corner of steam you should be able to "Add Game" or something similar, and from there you can just go to our steam directory and input it. However I'm personally a fan of just wiping everything and reinstalling.

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14 minutes ago, Tomsta said:

I have built my new gaming machine however currently i don't have my 2TB game HDD in it (it's in my current machine). When i do move it over how do i go about getting Steam to realise the games are there?

Just select the folder on the 2TB drive as a game library and it should do it automatically it did that for me at least

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I'm just speaking from experience so what I say may not work 100%

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1 minute ago, Statik said:

In the bottom left corner of steam you should be able to "Add Game" or something similar, and from there you can just go to our steam directory and input it. However I'm personally a fan of just wiping everything and reinstalling.

I have more than just my games on the 2TB drive so i can't just wipe it

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Rename SteamAPPS folder to GAMES.

UNINSTALL Steam on that drive (leaving the games folder)

Reinstall Steam in Nee location, inside tell steam to use that original location as your game directory/library directory.

 

Done.

Youtube how to do thisnif need be first..

 

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