Steam – purchase a Steam game but install it and play it on a computer without internet

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I have a simple laptop connected to the internet with a simple graphic card, good for browsing the internet and writing emails. The graphics card is too basic and the GPU overheats when playing computer games. I also have a gaming computer with a much better graphic card that will no longer connect to the internet. Otherwise it works just fine. The gaming computer has a 4 year old version of Steam already installed.

Can I purchase a Steam game using the simple laptop but install it and use it on the gaming computer?

Best Answer

Using method of moving steam installation to another drive from here you can avoid downloading games but you still have to download steam client:

  1. Buy and download game to non-gaming pc;
  2. Copy steam folder to gaming pc;
  3. Delete everything but SteamApps and Userdata;
  4. Launch Steam - it will download missing steam files.

This still requires internet connection, but greatly reduces amount of data needed to be downloaded.

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