steam query

sunderland · 16 Feb 2009 at 20:50

ive got 3 partitions on 1 drive 1 for system and 1 for music and the other has steam and all my other games i play on,now i want to go back to vista 64bit and i know i will have to install my games again but what about steam games,will they just stop in the folder thats on a seperate partition or is it a case of downloading the games again thanks

paradigm · 16 Feb 2009 at 21:38

So long as you install steam to the path that currently holds steam, it will see the cached games and you won't need to re-download them.

If you wipe the current steam directory, then yes, you'd need to re-install.

sunderland · 17 Feb 2009 at 10:28

ok thanks for the advice

uv · 17 Feb 2009 at 10:47

you don't even need to reinstall Steam.

Once you're up and running on your new OS install, navigate to your Steam directory, and open Steam.exe - it'll install the Steam service and everything will be as it were before.

sunderland · 17 Feb 2009 at 18:16

thanks thats even better