How does Steam work?

[Briton]

Steam is the best software ever i buy all my games on there and wont be buying the DVD's for as long as i can imagine. I've got nearly 50 games now on steam and the beauty of it. Is that none of them need discs to be inserted it is so easy to buy everything too. The fact you can log in anywhere and download your games wherever you are is amazing as well.

The best software ever? So why is it better than say, Impulse? You can download your games where ever you are from that as far as I'm aware but it's hardly frigging amazing.

 

[linktoinsanity]

You don't even need to use backups, you can just copy the directory across onto a usb stick, place it on the new machine, then log into steam with an account that has the game. It will probably need to check through the files, maybe a small update and then will work fine
Done it tonnes of times at LANParties to save having to try and download them

This is the best option. I've done this myself.

 

[Gimpymoo]

Auraomega, let us know what you want and I am sure if any of us have it, we will send you the STEAM files