So whats wrong with these two games, Warframe and Defiance. I played both games like 1 hour or more then i thought to make backup of these two games so i can install it on second PC, when i started making backup, both games started downloading again .. WTH!!! :o :| ....
I have a shitty internet, it took me like 2 days to download Defiance and see shitareno :/

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Not sure what you're trying to do. Your saves and all that are online, right? If you're trying to save all the downloaded game data so you don't have to download to the second PC--because you have shitty internet, I don't know how much of a 'backup' that is, and Steam's games backup feature is both weak and not intended for the purpose you're using it for anyway. Just copy the folder for that game in SteamApps.

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But i used to make backup of other games so i can transfer it on my second pc and it worked before so many times, maybe games with launcher system have their own system backup :\

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So I tried to make a backup of Warframe and it just did the same thing for me! Guess it could be a problem with these particular games. The backup feature in Steam has always been pretty terrible though. Even on a good day it sometimes just refuses to start backing up or ends up re-downloading the game when you try to restore the backup. I stopped using it way back when because of those problems.

It's easier to just copy the game from the SteamApps folder manually, that usually works well when moving games from one computer to another. You could also try the In-home Streaming feature. That way you'd only have to install the game once.

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by just copying the game from the SteamApps folder manually will not copy your save games profile ? isn't?

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Yeah, you'd have to do that manually too (which varies from game to game) unless it has Cloud Save support. Warframe and Defiance shouldn't matter much either way though, since they are both online games.

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Closed 9 years ago by JaniYa.