New Person, Old Questions

[lewisbwilliams]

Hi all,

I bought a new PC yesterday and obviously want to install Steam on it as soon as it arrives. Is there anything I need to do? I know I'll need to uninstal it from this PC, but seeing as I have already registered my games, doesn't that mean it will mess up when I have to do it again on my new PC?

Sorry for the 'noob' question, but understandably, I don't want to lose my games because by trying to activate them on another PC. I have Half Life 2 and Episode 1, both on DVDs.

Another thing is saved games .... I know I could move them accross on a USB drive or something, but I read something about using Steam to back them up. How does this work? I know you open Steam, chose the 'My Games' tab and then right click the one you want and click 'Backup Game Files ....' but what does that do? Just make another copy of them on to the PC?

Thanks for all help.

 

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Games are tied to your steam account, not your PC. You don't need to do anything with your old PC, just install steam on your new pc, log in, and away you go. If you do have more than 1 PC with it on, they will knock each other offline when you log them on however.

If you know your steam account details, you will not lose your games, no matter what.

Unfortunatly, they never added the feature to save "saves" to steam. The back up in steam actually backs up the game files, so you can then burn them to DVD/CD. Its a feature for people that buy and download games from steam.

 

[lewisbwilliams]

Thanks