Advice moving from Vista 32bit to Win7 64bit

Viral · 20 Apr 2010 at 04:04

Hi guys I am moving over to 64bit Windows 7 and want to instal Steam and all of my games and saves, will I need to download everything again due to the change from 32bit to 64bit?

kylew · 20 Apr 2010 at 06:31

Not for steam no, you can just point the steam install to the location where your previous install of steam is and all your games and so on will be picked up by steam.

mast3r · 20 Apr 2010 at 11:46

kylew said:
Not for steam no, you can just point the steam install to the location where your previous install of steam is and all your games and so on will be picked up by steam.

What he said!

Providing you dont format ur hdd

PistolPete · 20 Apr 2010 at 11:56

I'd be tempted to run a Steam backup to DVDs - Accidents can happen to the best of people!

Aod · 20 Apr 2010 at 16:59

PistolPete said:
I'd be tempted to run a Steam backup to DVDs - Accidents can happen to the best of people!

not really necessary - if you have an external HDD or anything like that which can accommodate your steam directory, just pop it on there and copy it beck when you're done installing, much more efficient then faffing with hundreds of DVD's