[badatgames18]

I awoke to a corrupted operating system which refused to let me fix it, and i had to reinstall my entire operating system again.

I lost everything except my important documents which i had saved on an online storage facility.

Now i am in the process of downloading ALL of my steam games again.. At a speed of 1.5-2 mb/s. It takes like an hour or more to finish 1 game....

 

[SpeedNuggeT]

Yea, i had too when i reinstalled and my fileserver's games backup drive had killed itself, and i didn't realise.

Very bad timing.

I got 20megabit unlimited internet, just left the PC on for 1 night and my 5 most played games had come down, then i just downloaded the rest of them whenever i felt like playing them.

Also, it's too late now, but sometimes you can fix steam corruptions by backing them up, and reinstalling steam, or removing steam.blob.

Also, i recommend you keep backups of your steam games on DVDs or different drives, it keeps you sane.

 

[Larz89]

Yup, just recently when i did a clean windows 7 install.

250 gig worth of games, it took me a week

 

[Bitemarks and bloodstains]

yep a couple of times but now I keep a backup of my steam folder on my file server. Gigabit network FTW

 

[SmokinWaffle]

Nope, have my OS on an SSD and a Hard Drive dedicated to Steam. Reformat, make a shortcut to Steam on the dedicated drive, job done.

 

[Dirtyworks]

Don't feel bad. It takes me an hour to download 100mb.

 

[Klaufi]

I've done it a few times..
HL2, CSS, BFBC2, CoD, Fallout and a bunch of games..

I keep backups of saved games for the SP games (Those that are stored in my doc's) and i take a monthly backup of the Steamapps folder, even though i usually just dl them again, the one or two i play one a regular basis first then the other ones.

Steam Sync has made it so easy to reroll your OS these days..

 

[Tralala]

yea on my new laptop,
and when I did a clean format on my new HD

 

[____]

I accidentally my windows this day last week, so I had to reinstall everything. It is then I decided to play through my library one by one.

 

[PhillyOverclocker]

I got a steady 3.2MB/s from Steam last time I downloaded CS:S again. I never saw it that fast before.

 

[sub50hz]

I keep a backup of my steamapps folder for cases like this. I had to do it last weekend, much faster than downloading everything.

 

[nagle3092]

Quote:

Originally Posted by SmokinWaffle;13066118
Nope, have my OS on an SSD and a Hard Drive dedicated to Steam. Reformat, make a shortcut to Steam on the dedicated drive, job done.

^This, I have found out the hard way this is the best thing to do. Just make sure you backup your saves because I ALWAYS forget to before I reinstall.

 

[BigFrank]

I use steam mover to move games from my ssd to hdd. so no issues here. But then again I only play a few games.

 

[t3lancer2006]

That sucks. Thank god I have a 20 Mbit connection

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[Invisible]

Had to do this recently. HDD just failed on me one day, and had to get a new one and put all 150GB of games back on there.

 

[mrsmiles]

i've had to re-install a couple of times but through steam i just backed them up and saved somewhere else, so it really not that much of a hassle to install them again, but the one thing i always forget to do when something happens to force a re-install is backing up save files for the games so i have to start over from the beginning...

 

[dedmonwakin]

I feel for you, I do. I wore my Mr. Dumasshoal hat for 3-4 days while I re-downloaded my games just so I can back up a majority of them (107 games/584GB acquired in less than 3 months.) Taught me a severe lesson on procrastination and why I should back up frequently.....especially when I was trying to figure out how to OC my CPU.

 

[headcracker]

Sucks dude, couple of months ago i had a HDD fail on me, lost around 80 of my installed steam games, all my music, countless other stuff like movies + other games. I took it bad lol

 

[PhillyOverclocker]

Quote:

Originally Posted by t3lancer2006;13066254
That sucks. Thank god I have a 20 Mbit connection

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What is your steady download speed from Steam with your 20Mb connection?

 

[dedmonwakin]

Quote:

Originally Posted by t3lancer2006;13066254
That sucks. Thank god I have a 20 Mbit connection

.

Quote:

Originally Posted by PhillyOverclocker;13066852
What is your steady download speed from Steam with your 20Mb connection?

I'm curious too. I have 24 Mbit connection, but Steam doesn't care. Max I have ever gotten through Steam is 4 Mbit's and I think only one or two games out of hundred ever got that high. My average is 2 Mb