This is off-topic, but if reinstalling Steam solves your issues, that means you only have one partition? Add a second when you install Windows. It's nice to keep all your Steam files on a separate partition so you don't need to redownload all your files when you reinstall Windows again.
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STEAM announcements & updates 2013 II - ITT we buy $1 games and complain about them
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This is off-topic, but if reinstalling Steam solves your issues, that means you only have one partition? Add a second when you install Windows. It's nice to keep all your Steam files on a separate partition so you don't need to redownload all your files when you reinstall Windows again.
Sure did!
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Mothafuckin Foil Spy card. People have obscene prices for it atm (3 up) so I'm gonna try to get 25$ out of it. I figure if someone bought an emoticon at 20 this can move too.
MMBosstones86
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He's being a jackwagon
Sadness has a price.
guilty. I've been assimilated into the Beta.
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I dropped it to 23$ final price if that makes you feel better.
Well fuck that. I just spent 1.11 buying access to the beta. If people are gonna be stupid, I wanna play too.
Sportbilly
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Sorry, I've derailed this a bit- it's actually a separate physical disc. I was running out of space on my C drive, so have started putting the larger games onto my second drive. I don't have a problem with Steam, but could do with reinstalling Windows at some point due to some other issues, and wondered how Steam kept track of where your games are located.
The idea would be to backup the Steam apps folder on the boot drive to the secondary drive and then reinstall Windows. I was unsure though how Steam would pick up where the games were located if they were on a separate physical drive as I wouldn't want to copy them back on to the boot drive.
Hope that makes sense, and apologies for piggy-backing on the original question.
I refuse to pay. If I waited this long (a day and a half), I can wait forever!
You're supposed to insult us and scream because we aren't able to answer your question, due to ignorance/sleepiness/lack of trust, and act as if the whole purpose of the thread was giving you an answer. Who do you think you are, treating us like we were people and actually being kind to us?
Don't worry man, you don't need to apologize! Steam will look for the Steamapps folder in the path were you last installed it, so if you delete everything in the Steam folder EXCEPT for said folder (Steamapps, which contains your games data) and Steam.exe, move them to another folder/partition/drive and then launch Steam.exe, it will automatically download the required client files and install itself on the new location, recognizing your games in the process.
Oh. Keeping them on a second disk is smart. That's what I do. And although I don't think this is the recommended method, I've always just reinstalled Steam onto my second drive whenever I do a Windows re-install. Maybe I'm playing with fire by being so lazy, but it's always worked and I've never lost installed games this way.
So I don't see why you just can't do what you're describing (pretty sure I did that in the past). Just copy the the Steam folder onto your second drive and they'll be there when you re-install Windows. If you've got games spread across multiple discs, I'm not sure how that'll work (with finding them all), but Steam is pretty torture proof otherwise.
I feel dirty for paying, but gotta get my scratch off ticket if I wanna play. Besides, I'm still ahead by 30 dollars or so with regards to marketplace
I have a 1tb drive partition (on a 3tb drive) only for games. Steam is installed in that folder.
Doesn't matter what I do (reinstall windows, move that Steam installation to another drive, copy it to another computer), my games are always downloaded. At most, Steam just need to reinstall/redownload the redistributable DirectX libraries (which I delete, from time to time).
IMO, the right way is installing Steam on a different partition than windows and only use the "install this game on a different folder" option on Steam if you want to put games on a SSD for faster loading, for instance.
It's the most hassle-free way of doing it.
I would, actually, suggest Sportbilly to move his SteamApps folder on the Windows Installation drive to another drive (for instance, D:\Steam), along with the .EXE file, and run everything from there instead.
Sportbilly
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Ahh, thanks, good idea. Yes, merging the two Steam app folders and then re-installing Steam onto the second drive might do the trick.
Right, now what about my SQL Server and Visual Studio reinstall....
Nabs
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Yeah. Idle away.
If I don't pay them back, (their 3 dollars), then feel free to report me to the GAF moderator team, why wouldn't I pay you back? I think most people would value their GAF account at higher than 3 dollars, I certainly do. And if that truly was the issue, someone could have asked me to pay them first, and I gladly would have. But no one said anything, so don't say it's because people didn't trust me. If I'm a junior with 20 posts, I'd understand your point, but that's clearly not the case.
Yeah, someone asking for help is problem, great insight.
No, I was upset because I got ignored because I wasn't a "regular." If I have to be a regular for someone to help me out, this defeats the point of the thread. I know you're a nice person, but sadly, you weren't on. And it wasn't arbitrary, I could only access my Paypal yesterday because I was going to sleep and I was going to be out all day until there was no time left, and Paypal still isn't working today. (When accessed from Steam).
It's fine now, I just got Archie to spot me Terraria, and he didn't question my integrity as a gaffer.
I never said that, and if asking for help about a common steam issue or someone to pay 3 dollars to get me a game on sale is entitled, then I suppose I expect too much out of some GAFfers sometimes.
Honestly, I wasn't that mad until people started saying it was my fault for doing it late at night, when there was clearly people around to help.
No meltdown here, I've been banned for saying worse things, but I'm not going to petty and start calling people names or do stupid shit like that.
That's a fair point, but I'm sure some of those people were in a position to at least buy the game. That's all I asked, so I could get it before it wasn't on sale.
If you've seen the other thread about the cards I posted time data about the drops. It looks like there's a card check every 20 - 25 minutes, if you are in game during the check you get the card. It does not seem tied to the amount of time you've spent in game.
I'm timing Don't Starve at the moment.
quoting just to give you an idea on how long you might expect to idle in a single session.
Or....how about playing in a different server before you jump to the conclusion that the game is full of hackers from a single map
Thanks for linking that, the quick look was hilarious.
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
Asking for help isn't. This hissy-fit you're throwing most certainly is.
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Are you playing competitive matchmaking?
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Guys, I am getting cards on every game except Don't Starve. I tried reinstalling and still nothing. Steam also says I played 1,193,044 hrs of Don't Starve.
Time for a support ticket I guess.
They said the time tracking can be a bit glitchy at the moment since they are changing how it works.
Wok
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Rickenslacker
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i thought you were kidding with the playtime but you really weren'tGuys, I am getting cards on every game except Don't Starve. I tried reinstalling and still nothing. Steam also says I played 1,193,044 hrs of Don't Starve.
Time for a support ticket I guess.
don't spoil the future for me
Stupid question, but how do you get an emoticon? Can you idle in chat for that too?
Rickenslacker
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Craft a whole set a cards.
Wok
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Valve is punishing speculators. Thankfully, I am not an invite hoarder, I have just speculated on one invite, and lost 48 cents.
There are now more invites than Steam users genuinely interested in Steam Card Trading Beta.
Xelios not only buys every game there is, he also plays them for every one of us.Guys, I am getting cards on every game except Don't Starve. I tried reinstalling and still nothing. Steam also says I played 1,193,044 hrs of Don't Starve.
Time for a support ticket I guess.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Okay, I think the pool-pissing party is over now.
1) Yes, the thread occasionally gets a little high on its own supply, and devolves into a back-patting session or a chat room. That's unfortunate, but normally self-correcting as new news or releases happens. Personally I like review posts and stuff related to actually playing games. Most of the discussion yesterday was on-topic, because yesterday involved a pretty major new Steam feature being released and people trying to figure it out.
2) No one asking anything in any thread should expect an immediate response to anything; if people want to reply, they can reply, no one has an obligation to help anyone. Time pressure or personal importance doesn't change the way you can expect people to respond to you. Posts get missed. I make interesting posts that no one replies to, or at least posts I think are interesting, but sometimes people don't reply. I've asked for help and not gotten replies here, elsewhere on GAF, and even on threads I've created. Sometimes them's the breaks. I guess I can take this opportunity to remind thread regulars that if you see someone that needs help, it might be useful to reply with "No idea, sorry bud" just to let them know that someone saw their post.
3) Most of the posters in this topic are very very generous and I am confident that any GAFfer who isn't sending up an immediate suspicious flag could get someone to spot them a $5 game when they're having Paypal trouble. In the end, your problem got solved by a GAFfer as I understand it.
4) Asking explicitly for someone to buy it for you is more helpful than asking "Can anyone help?" or "Does anyone know what the problem is?" Unfortunately both Paypal and Steam aren't known for having helpful, easy-to-deal-with error messages and although I didn't see your post yesterday, if I did, I wouldn't have replied because I thought you were asking for tech support and I don't know how to solve the issue. There's also the Steam Trading/Buying/Selling thread that would be a good place to ask. You can also create a thread if you feel what you're asking for needs a thread. And then there's off-board ways to contact people in this thread, like the GAF Steam Group or GAF Steam Chat.
5) Every game that's ever been on sale will go on sale again, generally for a lower price and generally within a month or two of the last sale. Missing a sale is not a big deal. It's OK.
6) Regardless of who did what, there's no need to be rude about it when following up--and to everyone else, there's no reason to try to goad someone who is clearly mad into getting madder. Defuse the situation. Add to ignore list if necessary.
Any further replies on this subject by any party will be deleted. Thanks.
1) Yes, the thread occasionally gets a little high on its own supply, and devolves into a back-patting session or a chat room. That's unfortunate, but normally self-correcting as new news or releases happens. Personally I like review posts and stuff related to actually playing games. Most of the discussion yesterday was on-topic, because yesterday involved a pretty major new Steam feature being released and people trying to figure it out.
2) No one asking anything in any thread should expect an immediate response to anything; if people want to reply, they can reply, no one has an obligation to help anyone. Time pressure or personal importance doesn't change the way you can expect people to respond to you. Posts get missed. I make interesting posts that no one replies to, or at least posts I think are interesting, but sometimes people don't reply. I've asked for help and not gotten replies here, elsewhere on GAF, and even on threads I've created. Sometimes them's the breaks. I guess I can take this opportunity to remind thread regulars that if you see someone that needs help, it might be useful to reply with "No idea, sorry bud
" just to let them know that someone saw their post.3) Most of the posters in this topic are very very generous and I am confident that any GAFfer who isn't sending up an immediate suspicious flag could get someone to spot them a $5 game when they're having Paypal trouble. In the end, your problem got solved by a GAFfer as I understand it.
4) Asking explicitly for someone to buy it for you is more helpful than asking "Can anyone help?" or "Does anyone know what the problem is?" Unfortunately both Paypal and Steam aren't known for having helpful, easy-to-deal-with error messages and although I didn't see your post yesterday, if I did, I wouldn't have replied because I thought you were asking for tech support and I don't know how to solve the issue. There's also the Steam Trading/Buying/Selling thread that would be a good place to ask. You can also create a thread if you feel what you're asking for needs a thread. And then there's off-board ways to contact people in this thread, like the GAF Steam Group or GAF Steam Chat.
5) Every game that's ever been on sale will go on sale again, generally for a lower price and generally within a month or two of the last sale. Missing a sale is not a big deal. It's OK.
6) Regardless of who did what, there's no need to be rude about it when following up--and to everyone else, there's no reason to try to goad someone who is clearly mad into getting madder. Defuse the situation. Add to ignore list if necessary.
Any further replies on this subject by any party will be deleted. Thanks.
DunderHassan
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Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
I offered to split it with a very generous GAFfer earlier and he gave it to me for free
ussjtrunks
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I need it if it you can give it for free stone broke after the sales today
Can I get an Invite to the gaf steam group please ; http://steamcommunity.com/id/ussjtrunks/
Sold a Demoman card and almost got my money back for the invite purchase. I really don't understand what's wrong with people.
I guess that's why people are buying shit. But still.
I guess that's why people are buying shit. But still.
toddhunter
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Dropping the foils down to $20... see if they shift there.
Made $12.66 so far from regular cards. Haven't got the Dota or CSGo ones.
Made $12.66 so far from regular cards. Haven't got the Dota or CSGo ones.
Rickenslacker
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I'll get a level 5 foil bordered TF2 badge one day, but I like that they're expanding badges to something more rapid and plentiful, beyond some lame seasonal sales voting.
SteveWinwood
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I should have sold my wallpaper and emote when I had the chance, it'll crash hard tonight me bets. Oh well. No real loss.
scorpscarx
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I didn't get an invite, it just happened all of a sudden, but I am in now.
I can't believe I've gotten sucked into this. Anyone wanna trade useless crates to get the trading badge?
Should be under your user name --> Badges.
Not sure if you have to play "Steam Card Trading Badge Beta Access" first. Or restart Steam. I did both before I figured out that's where they were.
Should be under your user name --> Badges.
Not sure if you have to play "Steam Card Trading Badge Beta Access" first. Or restart Steam. I did both before I figured out that's where they were.
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