Transferring save files from one game download to another

Do you want to transfer an existing game download from one PC to another, without downloading the game again? Too bad! You can't do it. Or at least, I couldn't get it to work after much effort.

The files themselves are initially owned by the TrustedInstaller user, and you probably don't want to take ownership as it can screw things up. But even if you do take ownership and give your account full access rights—on both the source and destination PCs—and then copy the files over, there's a problem. The Microsoft Store won't recognize the files and it won't have the appropriate license. If you've already downloaded a game in the Windows Store, you're pretty much out of luck.

Your only option is to download the entire game, again, on another PC. That might not be such a horrible thing if you're dealing with Candy Crush Saga, but the bigger games like Forza, Sea of Thieves, and Gears can easily register at more than 50GB. There is a sort of workaround if you haven't yet downloaded the game and you know you want to have it on multiple PCs. This old Forza Horizon 3 Reddit thread has the details, which I'll summarize here.

First, you need an application to monitor network traffic, and the free utility Fiddler is recommended. I did this for Gears of War 5 and got a link that was at assets1. Anyway, grab that URL and then you'll probably want to paste it into a file downloading utility. Many games are quite large—Gears of War 5 checks in at 66GB—so this can take a while. Once the download was finished, I ended up with a single massive file, named "Microsoft.

The final step is to install the application via PowerShell. You should see a progress bar across the top of the PowerShell screen indicating installation progress. Obviously, a slower drive will take much longer to complete the installation. Navigate to your Steam library, right-click on the game and click "Delete Local Content". This will uninstall the game from its original location. Click the Install button to reinstall the game.

In the "Choose location" dropdown, choose the Steam folder on your new hard drive. Once done, you could be able to play the game as usual on the new hard drive. Method 1 : Origin has the built-in "Move Game" button to change game installation. You don't need to find the game folder. Copy the game files to the new location and delete the old one in the C drive. Then you can open Orgin and follow the path.

Choose Change to modify your folder location. Or you can uninstall the Fortunite and select the install place during the redownloading process. Check the details about how to move blizzard games to another drive. Step 1. Step 2. Open RiotClientInstalls. Step 3. Here you will see folders for each of your installed Steam games on that computer and drive. If you would like to know how to move your Steam games to another drive on the same computer , please see this article.

Alrighty, now that we have our Steam games folder, simply plug in your portable flash, or hard drive, then start to copy the folders of the games, that you would like to move to your other computer. Once done, go to your new PC and plug the portable drive in. You will naturally first need to install Steam on the new computer first. Once it finds them, it will simply initiate the install without redownloading the entire game. Enhanced read write speeds: Sequential read and write performance Secure encryption: Protect data by selecting security options, You can read more about how to backup and restore your Steam games here, but I would not recommend using this method to move your Steam games to another computer, simply because of how much longer it takes, without any benefit.

In order to see which method would be faster to copy your steam games ot a new pc, I did a test using DIRT 4 , which is a The reason for this is that, Steam has to do a full compression phase during the backup method, which takes a lot of time, and in this case is a waste of time, as we are decompressing it again right afterwards.

For example : If you are trying to move a 50GB game, and you only have a 16GB flash drive to copy the game across to another computer. In this case, you can tell Steam to divide the game backup into folders of 16GB, each for your convenience. Besides this, the Steam backup feature is great to use for the purpose of having a backup of your games in case something happens to your original game hard drive, such as it getting stolen, broken or damaged.

It creates zip files of you original install folders, helping you save space on the backup drive. Here are the 5 current best deals on SSD Drives, with the biggest savings, currently available on Amazon, should you are looking for a new drive to transfer you Steam games to.

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