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AleksanderK
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So I needed to reinstall Steam and before I did that I had about 200 GB worh of games downloaded and after I reinstalled Steam the games are still there. The Steam app just can't see where my games are located. I there any way to "tell" it to look for them in a certain folder?

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5 minutes ago, AleksanderK said:

So I needed to reinstall Steam and before I did that I had about 200 GB worh of games downloaded and after I reinstalled Steam the games are still there. The Steam app just can't see where my games are located. I there any way to "tell" it to look for them in a certain folder?

yeah you just need to add a steamlibrary, click the original one, and the games should all instantly pop up in your library again

 

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CPU: i7 4790s ~ Motherboard: Asus B85M-E ~ RAM: 32GB Ballistix Sport DDR3 1666 ~ GPU: Sapphire R9 390 Nitro ~ Case: Corsair Carbide Spec-03 ~ Storage: Kingston Predator 240GB   PCIE M.2 Boot, 2TB HDD, 3x 480GB SATA SSD's in RAID 0 ~ PSU:    Corsair CX600
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CPU: Intel Xeon E3 1275 v3 ~ Motherboard: Asrock E3C226D2I ~ RAM: 16GB DDR3 ~ GPU: GTX 460 ~ Case: Silverstone SG05 ~ Storage: 512GB SATA SSD ~ Displays: 3x1080p 24" mix and matched Dell monitors plus a 10" 1080p lilliput monitor above ~ Operating System: Windows 10 Enterprise x64

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2 minutes ago, DnFx91 said:

yeah you just need to add a steamlibrary, click the original one, and the games should all instantly pop up in your library again

 

 

7 minutes ago, AleksanderK said:

So I needed to reinstall Steam and before I did that I had about 200 GB worh of games downloaded and after I reinstalled Steam the games are still there. The Steam app just can't see where my games are located. I there any way to "tell" it to look for them in a certain folder?

(downloads tab, in steam settings)

Home PC:

CPU: i7 4790s ~ Motherboard: Asus B85M-E ~ RAM: 32GB Ballistix Sport DDR3 1666 ~ GPU: Sapphire R9 390 Nitro ~ Case: Corsair Carbide Spec-03 ~ Storage: Kingston Predator 240GB   PCIE M.2 Boot, 2TB HDD, 3x 480GB SATA SSD's in RAID 0 ~ PSU:    Corsair CX600
Display(s): Asus PB287Q , Generic Samsung 1080p 22" ~ Cooling: Arctic T3 Air Cooler, All case fans replaced with Noctua NF-B9 Redux's ~ Keyboard: Logitech G810 Orion ~ Mouse: Cheap Microsoft Wired (i like it) ~ Sound: Radial Pro USB DAC into 250w Powered Speakers ~ Operating System: Windows 10 Enterprise x64
 

Work PC:

CPU: Intel Xeon E3 1275 v3 ~ Motherboard: Asrock E3C226D2I ~ RAM: 16GB DDR3 ~ GPU: GTX 460 ~ Case: Silverstone SG05 ~ Storage: 512GB SATA SSD ~ Displays: 3x1080p 24" mix and matched Dell monitors plus a 10" 1080p lilliput monitor above ~ Operating System: Windows 10 Enterprise x64

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22 minutes ago, AleksanderK said:

So I needed to reinstall Steam and before I did that I had about 200 GB worh of games downloaded and after I reinstalled Steam the games are still there. The Steam app just can't see where my games are located. I there any way to "tell" it to look for them in a certain folder?

In Steam -> Settings -> Downloads there's a button on top for download locations. Where to point it to gets tricky, so I'll explain the directory of a Steam game repo first:

  • [Root folder]
    • steamlib.dll (or something, there's a DLL here)
    • /SteamLib
      • /common
      • and a bunch of "appmanifest####" files.

So you want to point it to the root folder, where that steamlib.dll lives.

I have a blog! And a list of guides I've posted

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28 minutes ago, M.Yurizaki said:

In Steam -> Settings -> Downloads there's a button on top for download locations. Where to point it to gets tricky, so I'll explain the directory of a Steam game repo first:

  • [Root folder]
    • steamlib.dll (or something, there's a DLL here)
    • /SteamLib
      • /common
      • and a bunch of "appmanifest####" files.

So you want to point it to the root folder, where that steamlib.dll lives.

Ok, thanks

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