Civilization 5 – What To Do with a Disk Without an AppId on Steam

Steam now natively offers an easy way to move a game from one drive to another.

First, you must create a "Steam Library Folder" on your new drive, by navigating to Settings > Downloads > Steam Library Folders and clicking Add Library Folder. I recommend creating a new folder on the drive called 'Steam Library' or similar to use as your library folder.

Next, for the game that you wish to move, right-click on it in the games list and navigate to Properties > Local Files > Move Install Folder. Select the newly-created steam library folder from the drop-down list, and hit Move Folder to move the game to the other drive.

This process may take a while to complete, depending on the size of the game and the speed of your drives. Once the game has been moved, Steam may perform a quick "Download" (which actually downloads little or no data), presumably to verify the game files.

As said by Brian Schkerke you cannot legally play Civilization5 without steam.

People have legitimate gripes about steam, and these questions come up regularly especially on 2K's official Civilization5 forum (2K Civ5 Forum)

However, since Steam is un-avoidable I find it more productive to offer advice to mitigate the effect steam has on your enjoyment and on your system, for in fact many gripes people have with steam are optional and can be disabled.

• You can disable all push pop-up advertising in steam. Instructions
• You can play Civ5 SinglePlayer/LAN offline without connecting to the steam server.Instructions
• You can disable steam collecting anonymous information about your system/software.Wiki
• You can disable steam from running on startup. Instructions

The four points above cover many reasons people dislike Steam. You will however still need to run the Steam client in the background as Civ5 plays. This may be un-palatable for your tastes but at least it is a 'neutered' version of Steam which does not connect to the internet or use up your system resources.

The disadvantages are

• You cannot save your games on the steam cloud while offline (useful for continuing games at different locations)
• You cannot receive patches for the game while steam is offline
• You cannot have your in game achievements ranked.
• You cannot communicate with your friends on Steam

Which you probably would not want to use anyway if you don't use Steam.

Hope this helps.

FYI: I am new to Steam. I have never used Steam before I bought Civ5 last week.