An all encompassing Steam FAQ thread

Antar Bolaeisk · 21 Jan 2013 at 21:40

Contrary to the recommendations here I'd keep Steam installed on the SSD and just symlink the steamapps folder from the HDD.

Of course, when you want a game to load from the SSD you end up with a second hop but I still find it works just a little bit better.

trigger-happy · 21 Jan 2013 at 23:19

TheVoice said:
As you've said, that's only useful for when you're initially installing the game. Doesn't really help when you have a game on your HDD that you want on the SSD.

or you could create a new folder in the other hard drive, then move the game folder there, then associate the folder to the steam library and steam should pick it up.

Myshra · 22 Jan 2013 at 08:32

"Should". Steam requires the folder be empty before you associate it as a second install location from my experience.

spankingtexan · 22 Jan 2013 at 10:58

Thanks for your advise guys, I ended up just installing steam to the secondary drive, working fine now ;-)

ToxicTBag · 22 Jan 2013 at 21:58

Steam - Adding Game Codes

I can find the option to "activate game code on steam" but I am trying to find out is there a way to add a game code without activating it and just have it sit in my inventory so I can gift it if required?

Thanks in advance

TALON1973 · 22 Jan 2013 at 22:25

short answer ..no

you have to sit on a code .. if it has a time limit your stuffed.

you buy a game from a site .. they send code .. you either activate it or keep it or send it to someone else.

you cant actiavate and keep it safe

ToxicTBag · 22 Jan 2013 at 22:26

Thanks for that TALON1973 much appreciated

TALON1973 · 22 Jan 2013 at 22:29

if you have a code for a game you already got ...

example ....

i bought a tripple pack game which consisted of 1 game i wanted and 2 i had ... i kept one code and sold the other 2 to people on here.

ive got soem codes from the humble deal .. i did a copy / paste in word for future reference as no expirey.. i cant use them myself .. but i might find someone who will

Ur round next · 23 Jan 2013 at 16:30

Steam prob can someone help please?

Hi guys

Just rebooted my pc from a crash, Went to load steam and all i get is this..

Can anyone help please?

bignev72 · 23 Jan 2013 at 16:31

Re-install Steam?

Ur round next · 23 Jan 2013 at 16:38

I Deleted everything apart from Steam apps and steam.exe 30 mins ago, I was still getting update errors :confused:

Seems to be working now tho

*Rich* · 23 Jan 2013 at 16:44

end of blob

Never seen that one before, but do seem to be getting a few connection errors when starting up.

olivier renault · 23 Jan 2013 at 17:33

The blob!

close Steam, make a backup of ClientRegistry.blob somewhere, delete original, restart steam.

SkidMarkKing · 29 Aug 2013 at 22:37

Steam playing up

Just went to go on race07 and it said about changing the format of the game. Ive gone on to it and none of my dlc is there that I have purchased. :/

Please help!

CaptainRAVE · 27 Oct 2013 at 11:43

What on earth is up with steam? It has added 200+ hours to every game that I have played?

Mynight · 26 Dec 2013 at 16:32

Steam limiting concurrent downloads to one?

Having just booted up steam for the first time in weeks and installing the latest update I find that I can only download one item at a time. All others are listed "In Queue".

Is this a lovely new unwanted feature or am I missing something?

Pain in the bum when I want to download Ghosts multiplayer and single player.

Done the standard reboot/ reinstall stuff to no avail. Any ideas?

Or is it just down to the time of year and sale that I`m being forced back to the stone age download speed and concurrent downloads?

CaptainRAVE · 26 Dec 2013 at 16:38

This is the way Steam works these days. I find it quite frustrating tbh.

Rroff · 26 Dec 2013 at 16:38

They changed the download system around June IIRC - it now uses say 10 connections to download 1 item rather than 1 connection per item. (They claim it means you download one item faster and/or less limited by an individual source - its not torrent style though).

Personally I've always got a constant 9.25MB/s since they've done it compared to a more variable download rate before so aslong as that continues I'm not gonna complain too much.

rubberduck · 26 Dec 2013 at 16:39

I think the number/speed of downloads depends on the traffic Steam are experiencing. I think they are currently giving away LfD2 so I expect the servers are getting hammered and have thus limited people to a single download.

Tobes · 26 Dec 2013 at 16:40

Well you should easily be maxing out your connection so one steam game downloading at a time shouldn't really be a problem. If it was slow yesterday there are many reason for this but basically the servers were hammered and it was Xmas.

However you're going to find a lot of us on here don't mind if we can only download 1 game at a time. Because after all it's a game and we can only play one at a time anyway. You can set individual games to allow background downloading in the Steam options of individual games.