Steam reinstall on new system build

[Dingy]

It has been quite a while since I have reinstalled my system, and is is starting acting strangely. So, I think it mightbe

time to reinstall....

 

Anyway -

what steps must I do to reinstall all of the Steam-powered games that I have installed (and other that I bought through

Steam)? Could I just copy those over from my original hard drive?

 

Thanks....

[Preacher]

Takes forever but if you are having issues your best bet is to uninstall everything STEAM related and then go to www.steampowered.com and install steam fresh. Then after logging in install all of your steam games one by one through download. You can use back-ups but like I said if you're having issues then maybe fresh is better.

[anonymo]

I can't see (unless you're having some pretty invasive virus issues, which I don't think even exist) why you wouldn't back up all your installed games to DVD first. You can even just copy your whole steamapps folder if you prefer.

 

I would never recommend re downloading everything, especially if your system is only having performance issues.

[Cujo]

just back up all the bigger gcf files. the rest can be re-downloaded in less than 5 minutes.

[dwEEziL]

I just run steam and re-download them. I'm not too concerned about the bandwidth or time.

[anonymo]

I just run steam and re-download them. I'm not too concerned about the bandwidth or time.

When can you start?