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• :D : Godhatesfatpeople
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  What about all your save games that invariably end up hidden in 10 different places on the OS drive? : ZenzenTen
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    All the cool games sync to the cloud. : Dusty_Slim
    • not quite but okay...... : sasquatchxing
  • I have a sugarsync account just for putting savegames into the cloud. : jermm
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  I wouldn't still be a PC gamer without it. : Dr_Cube
  • wow, that comment really made me stop for a second. I agree with this sentiment. : watcherxp
  • my wallet wouldn't hate me as much, though : devpaul
  • I agree with this; the convenience of my consoles probably would have made rarely buy a computer game : OverloadUT
  • I agree. : peetabix01
  • disagree : Pandilex
  • Abstain : dafugg
  • I wouldn't have become a PC gamer without it. : Lakipo
  • I would. Blizzard games are not on steam anyways. But it sure make it a lot better. : razlebol
  • I'd probably play WoW and a couple more games, but one thing is for sure.. I'd have spent a small fractio... : ramshot
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  Doesn't the registry getting wiped fuck up the games being properly installed? : coyoterys
  • not really they are all more or less self contained in the steamapps folder. Just have to reinstall ste... : sasquatchxing
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    I thought this, but I just fired up DCUO and it works 100% fine, so it looks like Steam is handling that ... : Majuju
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      So you didn't need to reinstall Steam or anything? You just went to your D:/ drive and launched the Stea... : coyoterys
      • Yeah. when i got my new pc i just grabbed the whiole steam folder from my old one and copied it across. d... : hanabal
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        I had to reinstall Steam but that was it. : Majuju
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          So you just installed it on top of itself, or did you install it and then copy your common folder from an... : coyoterys
          • All you have to do if you wipe windows or manually move all your steamapps to another drive or, basicall... : bipolar
          • so my C drive failed, my Steam directory was on my D drive. got a new hard drive, reinstalled Windows, do... : Majuju
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    nope : sanchez
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      Answer this: Currently I have my Steam installed on its own drive with my Vista 32 bit OS on the C:. If... : coyoterys
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        Yes, you can copy steam and its games to any computer, run it, and steam and the games will work fine. : sanchez
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          Holy shit. Even between 32 & 64 bit os? Man, the whole reason I've delayed upgrading to Win7 64 is beca... : coyoterys
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            just make sure to copy over your save files from MyDocuments : TrptJim
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              ^^yeah this is the only thing that you have to backup, I hate games that put settings/savegames into my d... : sanchez
              • AppData hiders are the worst. Or ones that are in All Users. Tages hashes in Program Data as well. : ZenzenTen
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            I think it's all in the executable where the 32 & 64 bit stuff matters. : Rice-Rocketeer
            • not really, you can run 32bit apps in a 64bit os : sanchez
  • Steam will rebuild the registry entries on first launch. : TheStupidOne
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    I transferred my games from an entirely different OS (XP to Windows 7), reinstalled steam and all the gam... : DeBurgo
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      Don't even need to reinstall steam, just run the exe : sanchez
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        right actually that's what I did, I forgot : DeBurgo
        • though I deleted everything except steamapps and the exe as a precaution so it was effectively a reinstal... : DeBurgo
      • It does reinstall itself when doing that though. : razlebol
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  Wouldn't that be the case regardless of how you installed your games to the second drive? : Haxim
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    Not with the amount of registry information most games rely on. : ryuuseki
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      the registry needs to die. : jayares
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        I would like all apps/games to be 100% portable. : ZenzenTen
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          Keep save games in the local game directory instead of my documents then. : mobab
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            Ummm, do games ever give you that choice? : ZenzenTen
            • I was speaking more against the developers and not about you =) : mobab
      • Yes - .conf files for life : rosewood
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      Which is hardly any? Most games create their registry entries on startup, which means they work just fin... : Halen
      • Most. It's fucking annoying when a game refuses to run without its registry entries though. : node
    • yeah i almost always just drag my games folder to a backup drive when formatting and never have any probl... : Unleashed
    • You are going under the assumption that Steam games never use the registry, or what? : thecray
• Steam is the most user-friendly DRM available. Even the latest Dragon Age's restrictions are the LEAST r... : sukabljat
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  Yay! :D Are you getting a new system then? : Rice-Rocketeer
  • not yet, gonna wait until April or May for the Sandy Bridge and some money to sort itself out. : Majuju
• My main drive failed today as well ... i smell conspiracy >= ( : pixelat3d