Reformating HD and copying steam files.

[VodkA-HLC-]

Hi guys, quick question. I just reformated my HD which I do frequently. I thought I copied the right files out of my steam folders to dvd but I guess I didn't. After my reformat. I re-installed steam and pasted the files that I copied out of the steam folder to thier righfull locations. When I went to pre-load hl2 it started at 36 percent and when I went to re-download cs source, it started out at 0 percent. My question is , are there certian files I am supposed to copy to disk so that when I do reformats, I don't have to preload and re-download everything from steam which takes hours. But rather copy it to disk and just paste and copy back into the right folder so that you can skip the whole preload- re-download step. That way when I reformat my HD everything will allready be download. Thanks in advance....If this is not legal in anyway let me know I am just trying to make life eaiser for myself. Thanks in advance.......

 

[Lone_Wolf_66]

No its not illegal and it does just skip the whole entire process of redownloading the files from teh steam servers which could take a while depending on how fast the servers are and how many people are actaully playing CS. All you would have to have are the .gfc files from your steam\steamapps\youre-mail folder becasue that is how steam saves your files onto your computer.


Correct if I'm wrong please.

 

[rEaCtin6]

what program can I use to burn in CD all the gfc files from HL2 and CSS?

thanks in advance

 

[Ecthe|ioN]

If you haven't got a DVD-burner I advice you to make another partition on your harddrive and put the gcf files on that one.