Transfer steam games to another pc

[Guest]

So I'm gonna be staying somewhere a few days that probably has pretty good internet I want to take advantage of. I'm curious if I could use my crappy laptop logged into my steam account to download games then transfer them through usb or lan or whatever without any issues.

[Photonic]

not sure if that will work you could try

[Flight1sim]

are you saying gamestream?

Im kinda confused

[Real_PhillBert]

All of your saves are cloud stored. All you have to do is download steam, and then download the game you want to play using your existing account. You dont need to transfer anything.

[rambi36]

All of your saves are cloud stored. All you have to do is download steam, and then download the game you want to play using your existing account. You dont need to transfer anything.

Just FYI, this doesn't work for all games. My Mafia 2 saves don't get cloud saved.

[Real_PhillBert]

Just FYI, this doesn't work for all games. My Mafia 2 saves don't get cloud saved.

Really? I have never run into one that wasn't. 

 

Good to know.

[Ex0Thermic]

Yes
once downloaded on you laptop you only need to copy the games folder from inside the steam folder to your other pc.
then on you other pc log into steam click download of the game you just copied. 
Steam will check for existing files and then just verify that all requested file are there

(Games folders/file are store in c:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\Common)

I do this myself as i have 40mb internet at work but only 2mb at home

[CatCloud]

Really? I have never run into one that wasn't. 

 

Good to know.

Not All games have cloud storage, if you look at your list, some game won't have that Cloud icon, ofc if you only have Valve games I'm sure it has cloud save, but for an example: Witcher 1 don't have. But Witcher 2 does.

[Real_PhillBert]

Not All games have cloud storage, if you look at your list, some game won't have that Cloud icon, ofc if you only have Valve games I'm sure it has cloud save, but for an example: Witcher 1 don't have. But Witcher 2 does.

Now I am going to have to actually look through my library and see

 

Thanks for the correction.

[Guest]

There seems to be some confusion here, I basically want to take advantage of the better internet because I have a pretty bad download speed and I just want to know if I can copy my game files so I don't have to download them to my pc from my laptop.

[Izaya Orihara]

All of your saves are cloud stored. All you have to do is download steam, and then download the game you want to play using your existing account. You dont need to transfer anything.

I think you are missing the point the OP is making. He has a PC on which he wants to game but his internet is crappy. Now he is going to go somewhere where he'll have good internet. He wants to download the games to his laptop and just copy them over to the desktop. 

[Izaya Orihara]

Also that should work just fine. 

[Imabigmac]

I would imagine you can, and worse case scenario you do a repair install or whatever it is. I do this with Origin quite often. 

[ChineseChef]

There seems to be some confusion here, I basically want to take advantage of the better internet because I have a pretty bad download speed and I just want to know if I can copy my game files so I don't have to download them to my pc from my laptop.

 

 

Yes

once downloaded on you laptop you only need to copy the games folder from inside the steam folder to your other pc.

then on you other pc log into steam click download of the game you just copied. 

Steam will check for existing files and then just verify that all requested file are there

(Games folders/file are store in c:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\Common)

I do this myself as i have 40mb internet at work but only 2mb at home

 

 

GeekThief has answered you best.  Simple answer is yes.  Long answer is yes, you just move the game folder in steam/common (or whereever it downloads them).

[VirtualNinja]

Or you could create a backup on the laptop you are downloading them on then restore on the intended machine.

[ChineseChef]

Or you could create a backup on the laptop you are downloading them on then restore on the intended machine.

 

This is also a possibility, but it is extremely slow, regardless of your hardware, and has a tendency to fail.