I uninstalled and re-installed steam. I didn't uninstall my games, and they still exist on my hard drive (I checked).
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Steam keeps re-downloading updates for some of my games (3 year old topic). By: 0; Reviews: 0 Lists: 6 #1 Edited by jclane (427 posts) - 5 years, 9 months ago. My internet is very bad. The download speeds on Steam have never even made it to a single megabyte. Some mods for ArmA 3 from the steam workshop and 5 mods that are from the same. It's not something non-masochists run into. I'll spend hours trying to fix crap like that because it'd take weeks for me to re-download shit! Another example of something Steam could handle better: When Steam released the Arkham City GOTY and upgraded everyone who already had the base game. I would have had to re-download the entire game. Jul 24, 2017 - Game constantly re-downloads and re-validates. Sometimes a game on Steam will non-stop update and validate itself, and when trying to. Luckily enough, there are many effective solution to fix this issue for good and resume downloading/updating games. Option 1: Clear Download Cache. Open the Steam client, then go to Steam > Settings > Downloads: once there, click to the CLEAR DOWNLOAD CACHE button. This should do the trick: in case it doesn’t, keep reading.
I have an SSD and a HDD, and to save space I install programs (including steam) to
C:Program Files (x86)Steam
drive (SSD) and games to D:GamesSteamApps
(HDD). How to I let steam know the programs are installed there?JonJon
Yesterday my game started to Patch to 1.06 on Steam automaticly. After the update was complete, it startet to run the update again. The game keeps updating on Steam over and over and over again. The 690mb or something.On the download info page on Steam it says its downloaded 0 bytes of 0 bytes and lists the status as 'checking' (my.
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There is now an official support article at support.steampowered.com covering some other solutions as well.
Go to Steam > Settings > Downloads tab > Steam library folders. Add the
D:Games
folder there and restart Steam. Steam should then be able to find the installed games again.3ventic3ventic
Yes, just click install and this will happen:
After this it either installs the files or just does nothing. I had the same problem but I think it got patched by Valve a while ago
TimmyTimmy
I know this is an old question with old answers, but I came across it when I made the mistake of backing up only my .SteamAppsCommon folder, and not the app manifests that accompanied them before uninstalling, deleting and reinstalling Steam.
![Game Game](/uploads/1/2/6/0/126028631/159686774.jpg)
None of the easy methods worked for me, and faced with the task of manually clicking through the install dialogue and waiting for it to discover existing files 1000 times over, I wrote a PowerShell script to do it for me.
It saved me a lot of time and effort, so I thought I'd share for anyone else who lands here.
Steam Game Keeps Trying To Re Download Game Pc
VocoderVocoder
Steam Game Keeps Trying To Re Download Games
I can confirm the possible ways for you because I have done it many times.
Method 1: Moving games to a new hard drive (like SSD)
The root folder can be anywhere, but the games must be in the subdirectory named 'steamappscommon' from the root folder. If you want the games to reside in D:Games then you should create the folder structure: D:Gamessteamappscommon
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The resulting game folders will look like this:
D:GamessteamappscommonArma 2
D:GamessteamappscommonArma 2 Operation Arrowhead
D:GamessteamappscommonMountblade Warband
D:GamessteamappscommonAssassin's Creed IV Black Flag
Once the games are in place, in the Steam client open the Steam menu (top left corner) and select Settings. Open the 'Downloads' section and at the very top, the first setting is named Content Libraries with a button Steam Library Folders. Click the button to open Steam Library Folders. Click the 'Add Library Folder' button to add a new library then select the folder D:Games. The library list should now show 'D:Games' as a Steam Library.
Exit Steam and then run it again. As soon as it opens, all the games that it finds in the library folder will be shown in White color as if they were already installed.
Method 2: Copying steam games from an old computer to a new computerOn the new computer, open Steam and either install one small game, or create the subdirectory yourself - it should be C:Program Files(x86)Steamsteamappscommon
Exit Steam, then copy the games from the old computer's steam library usually from C:Program Files(x86)Steamsteamappscommon into the same folder on the new computer.
Steam Game Keeps Trying To Re Download Game Pc
Run Steam, and all the game names listed in your library will be in White color as if they were installed. When you run the games, Steam will run the DirectX prerequisite installs if neeeded just like it had done on the old computer.
Method 3: Copying a single game from one PC to the otherSteam can be left running. On the new computer, open Steam and either install one small game, or create the subdirectory yourself - it should be C:Program Files(x86)Steamsteamappscommon
Copy the game from the old PC onto the new one and place it in the same folder as before - usually C:Program Files(x86)SteamsteamappscommonArma 2 Operation Arrowhead
The game will still be listed in gray (not installed) in Steam. Click Install Game. Steam will displayed the message 'Discovering existing files for xxx' and after a few seconds it will show the Play Game window.
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