Zangetsu
I am the master of my Fate.
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skeletor
Chosen of the Omnissiah
Re: Steam related discussions
1) You register a Steam ID
2) You like a game. You buy that using your Credit Card and you can download as many times as you want using your Steam ID from any part of the world.
3) You have to log-in to your Steam account to play your games.
4) Offline mode also exists given that you have logged into your Steam account atleast ONE time before on that particular machine with your password saved.
5) Some games can be bought in Retail and then activated on Steam. These games are mentioned here: *support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=7480-wusf-3601
6) The activation on Steam is done like this:
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7) If Steam sees that the game on your machine is outdated, it will always _update_ it before letting you play it.
8) Due to the above reason, the retail games which you buy have updates available _98.5 percent_ of the time after you install using retail DVD, so you will have to _obviously_ download updates before playing them. example: Metro 2033, Mafia II.
9) So what makes sense for me? Buy Retail games which use Steam. Example: Mafia II is Rs.400 on retail and $30 on Steam. DVD Box will be delivered to your home. Open it. Activate the serial number on Steam and throw the DVD Box including DVDs in the dustbin and download from Steam.
10) Take back-up of games on a portable hard disk like I do. Or burn the back-up on DVDs and store the "updated" DVDs.
Read point 9.
I am now explaining this for the last time. It is not as confusing as you are perceiving it to be, honestly.
1) You register a Steam ID
2) You like a game. You buy that using your Credit Card and you can download as many times as you want using your Steam ID from any part of the world.
3) You have to log-in to your Steam account to play your games.
4) Offline mode also exists given that you have logged into your Steam account atleast ONE time before on that particular machine with your password saved.
5) Some games can be bought in Retail and then activated on Steam. These games are mentioned here: *support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=7480-wusf-3601
6) The activation on Steam is done like this:
*img829.imageshack.us/img829/9051/screenshot20110413at253.th.jpg
7) If Steam sees that the game on your machine is outdated, it will always _update_ it before letting you play it.
8) Due to the above reason, the retail games which you buy have updates available _98.5 percent_ of the time after you install using retail DVD, so you will have to _obviously_ download updates before playing them. example: Metro 2033, Mafia II.
9) So what makes sense for me? Buy Retail games which use Steam. Example: Mafia II is Rs.400 on retail and $30 on Steam. DVD Box will be delivered to your home. Open it. Activate the serial number on Steam and throw the DVD Box including DVDs in the dustbin and download from Steam.
10) Take back-up of games on a portable hard disk like I do. Or burn the back-up on DVDs and store the "updated" DVDs.
It won't work like that. Retail DVDs will have outdated games and Steam _will_ download updates before you'll be able to play them. Please read my above post.huh....if they send DVD then why to download from steam ?? cant i just install the game from DVD ? or do they send blank DVD
after installing the game from DVD, i can link it to steam.
Read point 9.Re: Steam related discussions
Which folders do you copy and how do u restore it ?
saved games are too backed-up ?
10) Take back-up of games on a portable hard disk like I do. Or burn the back-up on DVDs and store the "updated" DVDs.
It won't work like that. Retail DVDs will have outdated games and Steam _will_ download updates before you'll be able to play them. Please read my above post.
Which folders do you copy and how do u restore it ?
saved games are too backed-up ?
OP
skeletor
Chosen of the Omnissiah
Re: Steam related discussions
Saved games are to be backed-up manually. Copy-Paste the save files.
You take the back-up using Steam's back-up feature which creates a "dump" at the location you want. And then you restore the game from the dump using Steam's restore feature.
Saved games are to be backed-up manually. Copy-Paste the save files.
Re: Steam related discussions
You might not want to do this. Why bear the pain of downloading that which is already hard-copied in a disk? (atleast for people with lame bandwidth like me)
You might not want to do this. Why bear the pain of downloading that which is already hard-copied in a disk? (atleast for people with lame bandwidth like me)
Tachyon1986
In the zone
Re: Steam related discussions
Yeah, I'm seriously considering buying it. Btw, do any of you guys still play Borderlands online? I'm buying it purely for the co-op.
Yeah, I'm seriously considering buying it. Btw, do any of you guys still play Borderlands online? I'm buying it purely for the co-op.
Ethan_Hunt
Aspiring Novelist
Re: Steam related discussions
Check if this helps: Steam Support
Check if this helps: Steam Support
Re: Steam related discussions
Hmm, maybe. I applied a similar method with no results.
Try it out, it might work.
Hmm, maybe. I applied a similar method with no results.
Try it out, it might work.
Re: Steam related discussions
It works. Here's the procedure:
1. Install Borderlands (any rip) + all the DLCs (if you have the reloaded's releases)
2. Make a copy of the entire folder now.
3. Uninstall the Borderlands that you installed in Step 1. This is just to ensure that there are no registry conflicts, shortcuts, corrupted icons, etc when Steam installs Borderlands.
4. Now install Borderlands from Steam. When the NCF files have been created & the download is at 0% then pause the download.
5. Now paste the copy you made in Step 2 & paste it at the steamapps/common/Borderlands location.
6. Now do a verify integrity cache & resume the download. It worked for me cos it took only an hour more to finish the 12GB download.
The serial keys will only be needed when you want to teleport to a location associated with that DLC for example. Do make sure to revoke the activation of the 2 DLCs using securom's revoke tool when you are going to uninstall Borderlands in the future or remove windows for a clean install.
It works. Here's the procedure:
1. Install Borderlands (any rip) + all the DLCs (if you have the reloaded's releases)
2. Make a copy of the entire folder now.
3. Uninstall the Borderlands that you installed in Step 1. This is just to ensure that there are no registry conflicts, shortcuts, corrupted icons, etc when Steam installs Borderlands.
4. Now install Borderlands from Steam. When the NCF files have been created & the download is at 0% then pause the download.
5. Now paste the copy you made in Step 2 & paste it at the steamapps/common/Borderlands location.
6. Now do a verify integrity cache & resume the download. It worked for me cos it took only an hour more to finish the 12GB download.
The serial keys will only be needed when you want to teleport to a location associated with that DLC for example. Do make sure to revoke the activation of the 2 DLCs using securom's revoke tool when you are going to uninstall Borderlands in the future or remove windows for a clean install.
Re: Steam related discussions
^^ atleast you won;t have to download 6 GB more if it works.
^^ atleast you won;t have to download 6 GB more if it works.
Ethan_Hunt
Aspiring Novelist
Re: Steam related discussions
Varun, I have quoted this post of yours on TE forum to help someone out, who had the same doubt. I have credited your name against it as well. Hope it's OK with you.
Re: Steam related discussions
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Max Payne Bundle @ $3.74
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Bully Scholarship Edition @ $3.74
Max Payne Bundle @ $3.74
i'm getting Bully.
All hail R*