Steam query

[Old Man]

I have been playing games on Steam with XP and have installed Win7 and wanted to know if I can play games from either OS from the same Steam folder?
So far, I keep getting errors when trying to use Win7, so if it is possible, then that would be good to know.

TY

 

[Bennie-Mac]

I think its just a case of re-installing them before they will work? Im pretty sure no downloading is required, just a fresh first time install from what I remember.

 

[Deceptor]

Should work, you can throw steam wherever really - if it's not installed running the client usually does so. What error are you getting?

 

[Old Man]

Should work, you can throw steam wherever really - if it's not installed running the client usually does so. What error are you getting?

So far two games are crashing; Borderlands 2 and Endless Space..

BL2 crashes after you get up the initial start screen and E Space crashes when trying to set up a game...

Maybe I need to reinstall Win7...

Will try a few other games.

ty

 

[Kyo]

I think its just a case of re-installing them before they will work? Im pretty sure no downloading is required, just a fresh first time install from what I remember.

You dont need to reinstall, you just need steam to be recognised the new OS. Try this first Old man, here what i do, I personally never use steams back up function as I do the following manually and it works everytime.

1) Install the latest Steam and make sure that it is NOT running. (Look in your Task Manager as the icon isn't always visible in the System tray)
2) Extract backed up Steam folder over the newly installed Steam area.
3) Delete the platform.gcf file in the steam\apps folder.
4) Restart Steam and login using my Steam account details.
5) Steam will now update itself again to the latest version and all your apps should still be there.

In your case did you back up and then move over to the newly installed windows or did u just upgrade xp to Win7? If you just upgraded then i think you can just do step 3 onwards.

 

[Old Man]

You dont need to reinstall, you just need steam to be recognised the new OS. Try this first Old man, here what i do, I personally never use steams back up function as I do the following manually and it works everytime.

1) Install the latest Steam and make sure that it is NOT running. (Look in your Task Manager as the icon isn't always visible in the System tray)
2) Extract backed up Steam folder over the newly installed Steam area.
3) Delete the platform.gcf file in the steam\apps folder.
4) Restart Steam and login using my Steam account details.
5) Steam will now update itself again to the latest version and all your apps should still be there.

In your case did you back up and then move over to the newly installed windows or did u just upgrade xp to Win7? If you just upgraded then i think you can just do step 3 onwards.

I installed Win7 to a new partition, but made the mistake of installing the 32bit and so will delete this and install the 64bit at the end of this week.

I'll try out your suggestion at that time.

ty