I have a younger brother. His Library consists of four games. Mine is 50+. I don't want to leave him logged into my Steam Account, so Family Sharing is a great boon. However, upon authorizing the computer and his profile, his Library insists that he needs to re-install all of the games into his Steam folder. Is there a way to avoid this? I've already eaten up more than half of the drive's space- there's no way he can install all of them.
Steam Family Sharing; Must I install the games again for each account
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You are probably applying one of the many games list filters (ie: installed games) - choose the game library you wish to view from this menu at the top of the steam window (the same way you would filter to show only installed games) and this will present you the available games from that library:
(On a train at the moment so higher quality screenshot will be added later)
When this question was asked, Steam Family Sharing was in beta. However, as of March 3rd 2014, Steam Family Sharing is out of beta and available to everyone.
If you open that tab now, you should see a screen like this:
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If both accounts are using the same computer, you just need to point Steam to your steamapps folder location.
Newfrom drop down menu.This will not work if he has his own computer, so he will have to install them on his own computer if he wants to play them there.