NEW STEAM DEALS!!!!

Bear in mind Colonization isn't an expansion, it's basically a different game (and slightly different playstyle) built on the Civ IV engine.
 
See my edit :)
Thought you lot meant the original Colonization and thought people were mad to spend £11 on such an ancient (but classic) game :p
 
I played the 2142 or whatever that was and I just didn't like it. I like multiplayers but not when they're modern war based.

cheers for saving me a couple of quid :)
 
I'm hoping for a cheaper deal on Bioshock. My disc copy has conked out and although I can wait, I'm sure a price of £3 or under would tempt me to buy today.
 
I know this is slightly off-topic but theres no point making a new thread. Im going to be reinstalling windows soon and i want to know whats the best method of doing a backup of my steam games.

Presumably just copying the steam apps folder onto a external hard drive then replacing it on the new install is enough to do it? is it worth doing the "backup local game fules" thingy on steam? Any help is appreciated.

Back on topic, got Defense Grid yesterday and just got Cogs for the girlfriend :D
 
_Gizka_ said:
Presumably just copying the steam apps folder onto a external hard drive then replacing it on the new install is enough to do it? is it worth doing the "backup local game fules" thingy on steam? Any help is appreciated.
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Yeah just copy the whole steamapps folder over to a slave/external, reinstall windows, install Steam again and copy the steamapps back. Don't bother with the backup local game files thing.
 
Why not just keep the entire Valve folder on a separate partition to Windows, then when you reinstall Windows all you have to do is run the Steam executable, no need to run the Steam installer at all.
 
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Yeah just copy the whole steamapps folder over to a slave/external, reinstall windows, install Steam again and copy the steamapps back. Don't bother with the backup local game files thing.
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Don't even need to do that much, copy EVERYTHING in the Steam folder and then copy it back onto the new install, run the Steam.exe and it will update quickly and then you're good to go. No need to install Steam seperately. I just keep it on my D: partition so I save the hassle of copying.

Bear in mind if any games you have are non Valve, they may leave save files in My Docs or AppData folders, so check for saves (use google to help locate).
 
Copy steam folder, reinstall steam once you've got your new PC setup, overwrite with old steam folder, run steam and let it update games as necessary.

That's the way I've done it for years.
 
You can get game issues if you don't bother reinstall the Steam client when you format and just run it off a slave. It doesn't happen very often and I'm not sure how many games can mess up but Valve ones do - I had lots and lots of problems with TF2 just randomly quitting with a hex error until I just installed the client as normal. Although that was a while back, maybe they have sorted the problem what caused that and it's all fine now - just wanted to mention it.
 
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Never had any issues either and I have most of Valve's games.

Steam is obviously designed so you can have it on a separate drive/partition and don't have to reinstall the client when reinstalling Windows.
 
Thanks for the quick replies guys, very helpful :D

Ill do what Kenai suggested and copy the whole Steam folder.

Anywho, only 2 hours left to go before the new steam deal. I hope Dragon Age comes up ¬¬
 
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