Save yourself by downloading from the Internet
Games occupy more and more and It’s a real ordeal to have to download, at the same time, 150 gigabytes or more. Between the minutes it takes and Steam consuming a lot of the bandwidth, we ended up not overdoing it to avoid further delaying the already incredibly long download time. So if you have two PCs to play with – a desktop and a laptop – or a computer and a Steam Deck, the Valve store has an option you’re sure to be interested in.
It is the possibility of preventing us from downloading the files of a game since, if we have already downloaded it on another computer in the same local network, Steam is able to take everything it needs and transfer it to the new device. This feature is enabled by default in the Valve client, so we won’t have to do anything, although we will have to perform a few steps and perform several checks to confirm that everyth ing is working as it should.
Let’s install a game via LAN
Let’s imagine that on the desktop computer at home you have the F1 2022 installed. Now you want to move it to your Steam Deck, so the first thing we do is turn on both devices with the session of our Steam account
Afterwards We touch on the direct access to the Transfer section –above– where Steam downloaded games and updates appear. In the desktop app, it will be a button at the bottom, inside the Library section.
Once we get to this transfer screen you will see that – in this case – Steam Deck is already downloading the files it needs of those that we have installed on the desktop PC. We’ll know by the blue stripe you’ll see that tells us which team it is. plug within the local network. In this case, as you can see, it’s not about downloading anything from the Internet.
If you want further confirmation that your vapor bridge is getting low F1 2022 from a desktop computeryou can go to the Valve store and check, also in the Transfers section, that this blue band appears where they inform us that the files are sent to the other device, in this case a Steam Deck.
It goes without saying the process is much faster and most importantly, it won’t use your bandwidth to download anything from the internet.
