Steam question

[WeatherMan]

Hi guys.

Got my mate coming over tonight with his computer, gonna upgrade his gpu from onboard to a 8500gt & stock mobo to a PSB Deluxe and add an freezer 7 so I can OC his e1400..

Will probably reinstall the OS once all thats done and then have a match of L4D on my and his computer.

What I want to know is, Instead of having to redownload L4D to his system which will waste about an hour, could I just copy over my L4D folder in the steam appcache like I usually do for my system.

Would this work? Or are there any attachments to my account? I know you cant play 1 game on 2 steam accounts, He has bought the game, just wondering if this a workable way to save time?

Thanks

 

[massahwahl]

He should be able to back up his l4d game from his steam account to cd's. Just right click on the game and go to backup.

 

[mrjack]

I think it should be enough to just copy over the *.gcf files from the */Steam/steamapps folder. Starting Steam should then set everything up properly. The .gcf file is a "Game Cache File", so it should only contain the game files that are distributed to everyone.

As for account settings there should be a folder with your account name in the same steamapps folder, which should contain your settings per game.