Need Advise,

CRUMPLYPORK · 19 Nov 2011 at 16:12

Hi all

i have purchased SR3 from origin and its downloading as we speak,
If i cancel the download in origin and put the code into steam to download it, will steam think im pirating the game?

mehuk · 19 Nov 2011 at 16:15

Its steamworks iirc, so its fine id say - just dump the code in and go.

CRUMPLYPORK · 19 Nov 2011 at 16:17

mehuk said:
Its steamworks iirc, so its fine id say - just dump the code in and go.

Why could I buy it from origin and not steam?

CRUMPLYPORK · 19 Nov 2011 at 21:03

this is daft i left it downloading from origin, its just finished and now its downloading another 9 gig from steam, what the hell is going off?

Malevolence · 19 Nov 2011 at 21:06

Two entirely different delivery platforms.

Limenote · 19 Nov 2011 at 21:07

CRUMPLYPORK said:
what the hell is going off?

not sure if serious...

CRUMPLYPORK · 19 Nov 2011 at 21:09

Limenote said:
not sure if serious...

it finished downloading in origin,

i clicked install in origin,

It then booted up steam and steam is ''Validating Steam Files'' and downloading another 9gb of patches according to steam,

Limenote · 19 Nov 2011 at 21:14

as mentioned they are completely separate delivery platforms and thus will never share game files.

CRUMPLYPORK · 19 Nov 2011 at 21:15

Limenote said:
as mentioned they are completely separate delivery platforms and thus will never share game files.

Yeah I get that but I don't understand why I've just downloaded 10gb through origin if it's not needed that's what I mean,

Malevolence · 19 Nov 2011 at 22:14

CRUMPLYPORK said:
Yeah I get that but I don't understand why I've just downloaded 10gb through origin if it's not needed that's what I mean,

Probably because of -

CRUMPLYPORK said:
this is daft i left it downloading from origin, its just finished

How do you expect Origin to know that you're going to use Steam and that you don't need the files when you've just told it to download them? It's a piece of dumb content delivery software, not the next-gen in mind reading AI.

CRUMPLYPORK · 19 Nov 2011 at 22:16

Malevolence said:
Probably because of -

How do you expect Origin to know that you're going to use Steam and that you don't need the files when you've just told it to download them? It's a piece of dumb content delivery software, not the next-gen in mind reading AI.

It was origin that sent me to steam, I didn't decide to redownload it in steam myself

KIA · 19 Nov 2011 at 22:25

I hope you didn't have to pay full price!

EL_TRICKY · 19 Nov 2011 at 22:30

CRUMPLYPORK said:
this is daft i left it downloading from origin, its just finished and now its downloading another 9 gig from steam, what the hell is going off?

I know not everyone's computer savy but this did make me LOL think my geeky side just came out.

CRUMPLYPORK · 19 Nov 2011 at 22:31

EL_TRICKY said:
I know not everyone's computer savy but this did make me LOL think my geeky side just came out.

explain

CRUMPLYPORK · 19 Nov 2011 at 22:41

right origin finished downloading so i clicked the ready to install button
and this came up.
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/819/origins.png/
Then i clicked the install button, it then booted up steam then i saw this on my screen,

http://imageshack.us/f/683/steamnm.png/

it just seems daft that its downloading another 9gb patch,

pgi947 · 20 Nov 2011 at 17:35

Its probably NOT downloading a 9gb patch, its re-downloading the whole game. When you ask origin to download/install a game it defaults to program files\origin games\SR3.

When you download a game in steam it defaults to program files\steam\steamapps\common\SR3.

With it being steamworks it requires steam to activate the game. Yes its a strange one, you could have originally just taken the key and added it to steam leaving origin totally out of the equation.

You could try this: Close steam and origin down (make sure steam has created an SR3 directory in steamapps\common\) copy the files from the SR3 folder in \origin games\SR3\ into the steam created folder. Open steam back up and see how many of the files it detects, should in theory clean up most of that 9gb, just leaving any steam specific files and patches to download.