Steam is one of the most popular platforms for multiplayer online games where gamers and games connect together. To play a game that is available on Steam, you need to install Steam client software on your PC first, sign in to Steam account and then download the game via Steam to play it with your friends. However, when you download Steam software on your PC, it provides you a little installer program which actually downloads all Steam installation files to the disk. That’s why you see the message “Stream is updating” even for new installation. The small web installer is typically 1 or 2 MB where the total size of Steam installation is nearly 300MB which are downloaded from internet. This means Steam installer needs internet connection to install Steam completely.
Steam offers online installer rather than an offline installer merely to keep everyone with the latest update, no matter from where someone got the setup file. But in some cases you or your friend may need to quickly install steam on PC where internet connection is temporarily down or very slow. In such situation, an offline setup comes in handy. But there’s no way to achieve any offline installer of Steam from internet as Valve (creator of Steam) itself doesn’t provide it at all. So the only way remaining for you is to create a backup of Steam installation of offline or later installation0. Here’s a visual guide on how you can create a backup and later install it offline.
Guide to Creating a Backup of Steam (Without Game Files)
- First, completely close Steam. You might need to hunt Task Manager or right-click on the Steam icon on Windows System Tray to exit it fully.
- Now locate the Steam folder at C:Program Files or C:Program Files (x86). This is where Steam installation files are located. Enter into the folder.
- As we need to exclude the game files, select all folder and only deselect SteamApps folder.
- Now use an archiving tool like 7-Zip or use built-in Windows Zipper to create a ZIP/archive file of the selected folders and files.
- Your newly created ZIP file is the file you can treat as “Steam Offline Installer”. Alternatively you can just copy all those files and folders to another location except SteamApps to create a backup. But Zipping is better.
You can now share this file with your friends to help install Steam without internet connection.
Is it possible to download steam games on an android phone submitted 4. Send him the link to the parts so that he can download it to his phone at work. Take those rar parts home. Extract it to his steam apps folder. Begin install of game on new computer. Let Steam finish Allocating space. Once it starts to download, stop download. I have been downloading Arma 2 on Steam for the whole day and when I left Steam open, to continue the download, my computer went to sleep and paused my game download.
Question 1: How to install the backup?
Answer: Just extract the zipped/archive file wherever you want your Steam to get installed.
Question 2: I didn’t sign out before creating the backup. Will anyone able to sign in to my account who Installs my backup?
Answer: No! Steam will automatically detect a new computer and ask authentication code that requires signing in to Email.
Note: Steam will update itself forcefully once it runs and finds an available update. However at post-installation update, it wouldn’t download the whole installation, rather the parts which got updated. Steam wouldn’t download all files if you install it from previously created backup.
If you have more questions, checkout official support page about moving Steam installation.
The concept of streaming games to a mobile device is nothing new. Nvidia's Grid service, for example, allows players to access PC games via the company's Shield console and tablet, while Limelight Game Streaming opens the door to Android devices -- provided you have an Nvidia GameStream-compatible PC.
Remotr opens the door even further, letting you play just about any PC game on just about any Android device. It's free, and it works -- but with some caveats.
The service consists of a Windows client and Android app (with an iPhone version in the works). I tested it using a reasonably powerful Core i7 system and Google Nexus 7 tablet.
What Remotr does, in a nutshell, is mirror your PC's screen to the mobile device, while the app provides a front-end interface for choosing the game you want to play.
Just as important, it supplies onscreen controls to take the place of whatever controller, keyboard and/or mouse setup you use on your PC.
To get started, you simply download and install the Windows client (which is compatible with Windows 7 and later), then install Remotr on your Android device. You'll need to create an account, then sign into it with both tools. That's how Remotr is able to stream not just over local Wi-Fi networks, but also over data ones.
With those steps done, you should see your PC listed within the app. Tap it to bring up a nicely tiled selection of the games you have installed, then tap any one of them to run it.
And that's where things take a turn for the confusing, as it's not immediately clear how to set up or even access in-game controls. For example, although I was able to get Tomb Raider up and running, I had no idea how to recreate my desktop mouse and keyboard controls. And for the moment, developers RemoteMyApp offer almost zilch in the way of documentation.
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With some fiddling, however (starting with tapping the magic-wand icon to bring up the control-creator options), I was able to produce onscreen WASD and mouse equivalents. And from there I was able to at least move Lara Croft around. Remotr has built-in control profiles for Counter-Strike and Team Fortress, but it would be great if it had a whole lot more.
Ultimately, I can't see myself playing games this way, as the controls -- even once they were mapped correctly -- would feel like a constant struggle. And there are so many great Android-native games, and even Android ports of desktop games, that for the most part I don't see the point.
That said, Remotr does work as advertised, and in Tomb Raider, at least, the action was surprisingly smooth. If you have even a passing interest in playing desktop games on your phone or tablet, there's certainly no downside to giving Remotr a try.
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