Downloaded - installed - played... today new installation needed ?

TheUnforgiven · 03-12-2012, 09:09 AM

Hi

First of all... i bought Just Cause 2 long time ago via STEAM download... played it very much.
Then a couple of month ago i switched my op sys from Win XP to Win 7 - but the Steam Files still were placed on the old partition - not on the sys partition.

So i started steam... wanted to play JC2 again - he wanted to download it... so i let it go. After download i was able to play it. Today i wanted to play it again and STEAM says... need to install JC2 - after that he wants to download the whole game again... ???

What went wrong ? So my JC2 folder is nearly 5 GB on data... so i think the whole data of the game should already be there... is there a chance to install it manually ? Or another way to run that game ?

ravage386 · 03-12-2012, 12:57 PM

I too have Steam and Windows on separate drives, but I don't recall Steam ever downloading a full game when I reformatted the Windows drive. I actually reinstalled Windows 7 this last week and was able to play all of my existing games after the initial 'first time run' installers were done.

alexUW · 03-13-2012, 10:32 AM

May want to email STEAM support.

TheUnforgiven · 03-14-2012, 08:56 AM

thx for ur answers - just sent in a support-mail

03-12-2012, 09:09 AM	#1
TheUnforgiven Join Date: Aug 2010 Reputation: 0 Posts: 2	Downloaded - installed - played... today new installation needed ? Hi First of all... i bought Just Cause 2 long time ago via STEAM download... played it very much. Then a couple of month ago i switched my op sys from Win XP to Win 7 - but the Steam Files still were placed on the old partition - not on the sys partition. So i started steam... wanted to play JC2 again - he wanted to download it... so i let it go. After download i was able to play it. Today i wanted to play it again and STEAM says... need to install JC2 - after that he wants to download the whole game again... ??? What went wrong ? So my JC2 folder is nearly 5 GB on data... so i think the whole data of the game should already be there... is there a chance to install it manually ? Or another way to run that game ?

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03-12-2012, 12:57 PM	#2
ravage386 Join Date: Sep 2008 Reputation: 167 Posts: 1,070	I too have Steam and Windows on separate drives, but I don't recall Steam ever downloading a full game when I reformatted the Windows drive. I actually reinstalled Windows 7 this last week and was able to play all of my existing games after the initial 'first time run' installers were done.

03-13-2012, 10:32 AM	#3
alexUW Join Date: Jun 2011 Reputation: 613 Posts: 2,662	May want to email STEAM support.

03-14-2012, 08:56 AM	#4
TheUnforgiven Join Date: Aug 2010 Reputation: 0 Posts: 2	thx for ur answers - just sent in a support-mail