Staind716 Posted May 10, 2012 Share Posted May 10, 2012 Well, I figured out a nice little trick to save having to reinstall the high res texture pack when you reinstall the game. Save a copy of the four texture pack files on your desktop. Then uninstall the game. Before reinstalling make a new skyrim and data folder and put the empty folders where they normally go. Put the four texture files in data folder. Now reinstall Skyrim and after it gets done installing the game Steam will read that your high res files have already been installed and will download the patch and you are ready to go. This saves a LOT of time and aggravation waiting 10 hours for a stupid 3gb download. Much, much faster and easier. :thumbsup: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SergeantGrrock Posted May 10, 2012 Share Posted May 10, 2012 Yay! A Steam hating thread. :) Always eager to tell everyone how much I think Steam sucks!! And this isn't just good old fashioned Steam hating talk. It's policy now... :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Korodic Posted May 10, 2012 Share Posted May 10, 2012 Hi This might be in the wrong place if so sorry. Had to reload Skyrim from steam told it will take 2 hours 45 mins; to download. To me this shows just what joke steam really is. PC running is an Acer Aspire. As this happened to anyone else out there. Cheers Bullybeef. Dunno about downloads but for about the last week it's taken nearly 5 minutes for me to connect to Steam and launch a game. And the number of times lately I get "This game is not currently available" is beyond a joke. Why is it unavailable? I paid for it, I have the files on my PC damnit run it! Steam is getting close to driving me to find a cracked copy of a game I've already paid for a legitimate copy of. (DISCLAIMER: This post in no way condones or encourages piracy. I have a legal copy and would not encourage anyone to pirate any software ever under any circumstances. I'm just saying that Steam is currently the one thing most likely to make me into a pirate, if I were ever to become one). Well... I don't see why you'd pirate the whole game again when you could just cut steam out of the picture using other methods or keep it in offline mode... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tetradite Posted May 10, 2012 Share Posted May 10, 2012 Well... I don't see why you'd pirate the whole game again when you could just cut steam out of the picture using other methods or keep it in offline mode... It was mostly a rhetorical device to better convey the depth of my exasperation with how bad a product it is. It was supposed to illustrate that their product is so poor that a dodgy illegal alternative becomes more attractive. Which it does. Steam is fundamentally no good at anything it's supposed to do (for the users or the developers in the long run) and a team of chimps could probably produce something better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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