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Give your computer stats? Maybe u have downloaded more than one of them. Look into your library. If there is more than one of "Rage" than it will update all of them at once hence taking up more gb space on your cpu
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Not sure is this would work for you, but id say to try and make your own steam community group https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=2092-QLZX-8453#create and then use the chat function in there.
Also, is suggest making it private/invite only if you JUST want your friends. I havent tested the persistence of this, but i know the chatroom will ...
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You certainly can find the same card twice, or even three times! And it does, sadly, count toward your card drops.
I managed to get 3 Wolfgang cards from Don't Starve, a game that only gives you three card drops.
Also, you can trade for duplicate cards. I traded my Portal 2 Destruction card to a friend who was then able to trade it back to me, despite my ...
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Ah, I found my answer at the verrry bottom of the Steam Trading Cards FAQ:
Do I get Trading Cards for completing achievements in game?
Trading Card drops are currently just tied to playtime within a game, independent of which achievements you are getting. We will definitely look into adding more rules for how cards are dropped in the future, but ...
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I know this is an old question, but for future generations:
Copy Steam_directory/userdata/your_long_number/7/remote/sharedconfig.vdf between computers or back it up.
Steam_directory is~/.steam on linux, ~/Library/Application Support/Steam on mac, and wherever you chose to install Steam on windows (usually C:\Program Files\Steam or C:\Program Files ...
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With Half-Life 2 being a game by Valve & Steam being Valve's distribution platform, Half-Life 2 (and probably all Valve products released afterwards) is only available via Steam.
You can, however, play the Xbox360/PS3 version of Half-Life 2 via The Orange Box, if you have any of these platforms.
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Yes, you need Steam to install the game. I will not run at all without Steam.
Steam is a DRM and content-distribution client, not a multiplayer service. Its main function is to manage the installation of the game, tie the serial number to a single account, and keep it up-to-date. All of these functions are independent of online multiplayer options in a game ...
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A good way to do this is to run a Terraria dedicated server. This is a separate executable that runs the server in the background, leaving you free to launch Terraria and connect to the server, or play single player while the server continues running for everyone else. To run the dedicated server, browse the Terraria folder in your Steam folder, and run ...
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Yes as of May 2013. http://store.steampowered.com/news/10548/
Added rate-limiting of Steam game downloads, via Settings -> Downloads
AT LAST
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If you purchased Defiance outside of Steam, I don't believe you'll be able to add it as a "native" Steam game, without already having a Steam key. The retail key you have will only work for a retail copy, or a direct download. Like you said, you'll be able to add Defiance externally though.
It also depends on where you purchased the game from. Some ...
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It should suffice to launch Steam with the -bigpicture switch.
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steam.exe -bigpicture
Windows 8 boots to Metro, of course, so you may want to either use one of the Windows 8 "backwards compatibility tools" like Start8, or to run a very little script in AHK at boot time:
Send #D
...or you can use Windows 7 instead (Windows 8 ...
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It appears that both Overlord and Overlord: Raising Hell should be installed in the Steam Library on the same hard disk. When they are both installed on separate disks the game will not work and you'll get this error.
So I have reinstalled it on the same hard disk and now it works.
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"Overlord: Raising Hell"'s content is integrated in the main game's content. So when you have both installed you can launch either one and you will get all integrated content.
You can also finish the base game first (make sure to keep your savegame and you will have to play the final boss again, the base game should also be installed) and then install ...
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You can edit the Steam UI's style files to change font sizes. The files steam.styles and gameoverlay.styles control the look-and-feel of the Steam UI and the overlay UI, respectively. You can locate these by navigating to your Steam folder (usually under Program Files) and navigating into the resource then styles folders.
By finding the lines that contain ...
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An alternative solution that works just as well (actually worked better for me; for some reason my Internet connection didn't like it as a 7z file) is to get it from Desura. Make an account and install the client, then you can install it in one step from here.
And I can confirm that Black Mesa is still not available from Steam yet. Dunno what the hold-up ...
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No, there is no way to queue it at the moment, but Steam has it's pipeline for downloading changed over the last year and only like 100 Games are left with the old content system at the moment.
Once this is completly done, more features will come out on Steam that give you more control over your downloads. The current Steam Beta contains a download speed ...
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The simplest and safest way to get a game that is unavailable in your region is to have somebody else buy it for you, there is a myriad ways to wire the money to them. The only exceptions are some (but not all) games that are unavailable due to censorship in your country, so look out for that if you live in Germany, Australia or another country with ...
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You can run TWO Steams with Sandboxie.
(Yeah, I know this is not what you want.
Still, this might worth a try if anyone is interested in such a solution.)
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You can use my Achievements Unlocked mod to unlock achievements you should have gotten but were offline for.
I plan on updating it this weekend to work with MCM, so maybe track it if you don't want to mess with the code. :)
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May 01, 2013 Patch fixed this problem.
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With Steam's Big Picture mode you can now choose on which monitor games should be running from the settings menu. Also very handy if you're gaming in 3D, since that also only works if the display used is the primary one.
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As of May 3rd, 2013 (when main DotA 2 client gets patched) DotA 2 crashes won't create such large .dmp files.
Quote from the official DotA 2 test client patch notes:
Update 2 - "Dota 2 will no longer generate full crash dumps"
If the problem persists you can try using CCleaner program, it can be set to automatically delete those files.
Also you could ...
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For what it's worth, it will only be performing a full dump during the beta phase. After that, they will switch to regular minidumps, which are much much smaller... http://dev.dota2.com/showthread.php?t=1533&p=4910&viewfull=1#post4910
Obviously, that could be going on for a long period to come though. In the meantime, you can create scheduled task ...
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No, there is no way to stop that since that is a hard coded function in Dota 2. Those minidumps are generated by the program itself.
You should report it though if you get that many crashes...
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If you go to your library and enble the List View, you can then Right-Click on a game with the cloud icon, under Properties -> Updates, you will see a check box to sync 'your experience'.
There is also a check box under Settings --> Cloud.
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You could try copying the game files to the appropriate folder in steamapps. I would think that Steam would recognize most of the files as the ones it is expecting.
The copy you would do is something along the lines of
C:\Program Files\Valve\Team Fortress 2\ ---> C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\~grigorgevorgyan\team fortress 2\
Of course, some of ...
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steam://subscriptioninstall/id1/id2/... Opens a dialog box with a checklist of the games specified allowing you to install them all at once.
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Steam playtimes aren't really accurate, same with raptr - i think my friend "played" minecraft 180 hours the first two weeks they had it, but i know they accidentally left it on while studying a few times.
If you leave games idle on steam it will do the same thing, track idle time as played time.
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I've seen this sort of thing before, in both directions. I believe it stems from the fact that Steam tracks playtime by launching the app, and then paying attention to how long that app stays open.
In the case of some games (Thief 3 comes to mind), the app Steam launches immediately launches another app and then quits. So, your played time will look like ...
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No.
It has nothing to do with serial keys, though. Even if GOG is DRM free, they often supply a serial key with their games. This is for your convenience. Should GOG one day go bust, you still have your serial key – which is your unique code, or "proof of purchase", if you will.
This should not be confused with DRM, though. DRM simply put limitations on ...
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I think Source mods can only be installed in the main Steam Library folder, since they're based on the old .GCF format, which doesn't support multi-library installation.
However, you can do a small trick to make Steam think the game is on its original drive:
Open a command prompt in your original Steam drive's SourceMods folder. (Shift-Right click the ...
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The problem may be that you don't have the Source engine on that partition, so the game isn't viewed as complete, and thus not recognized. According to the website, "This total conversion will not require Half-Life: Source to play - only the Source SDK Base 2007 which is available for free on Steam." Try installing that and see where that gets you.
EDIT:
As ...
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Theres is no solution but you can got to updates,and select do not keep my game updated. should be faster
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I found a dup question here -> How to get Steam to recognize existing game files from a different source?
So I just clicked install, and it worked.
The game was Deus Ex: Human revolution.
What is weird, is with Shogun 2 it didn't work and I had to download 30ish gig again for that game. Though with that game I didn't have the ncf file. So maybe that is ...
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You can make a Junction Point to trick Steam into creating its shortcuts into Games\Steam. Move your current shortcuts into your Games\Steam folder, delete the original Steam folder, and use the command
mklink /J "%USERPROFILE%"\Start Menu\Programs\Steam" "%USERPROFILE%\Start Menu\Programs\Games\Steam"
This way, the shortcuts truly exist in your ...
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You get a few hats in TF2 for completing some of them. Otherwise, they're just swag points on your profile.
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Seems it is a problem with many users and you're not alone. It is not a scheduled downtime.
Check this thread on their forums where others too are posting about this.
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From the Steam support page on extra copies, in most cases you won't receive extra copies of a game you already own when you buy a bundle that includes that game. There are certain exceptions, mostly relating to Valve's own titles, but Counter Strike is not listed amongst them, so you'll have to buy your friend the game/pack separately.
If you buy the pack ...
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You can only gift games which come with separate steamkeys. I don't know if you only get one key/item in your steam inventory if you buy the CS-Pack, but I do know that it's not possible to gift some games from the humble bundle packs. Most of them are combined in one steam-key and therefore "lost", when you activate the key on an account with one of those ...
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I don't know if you've tried these options, but I'm putting them here because this is what I do on my laptop to achieve a decent FPS when playing Source games on the train home. (like TF2, Left 4 Dead etc).
Kill unneeded applications whilst playing games
Music players
Auto updaters (Java and Adobe for example)
Antivirus scanners
Explorer
Open Web ...
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Mann Co. Online Store
Once you make your first purchase, you get the Mann Co Online Cap (different from the Mann Co. Cap).
Since your post also references keys, you can also try Steam Marketplace. Think of it as a community market for the sale of certain TF2 items, and it's accessible from the main Steam panel.
http://steamcommunity.com/market/
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I've never experienced this specific case myself, but I do have 7 accounts I used for idling in the past (which have since more than paid for themselves). If the account in question has the "Proof of Purchase" hat that was given out to people that owned the game before it went Free2Play, you could bring your account to the attention of Valve as that is a ...
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