Thanks to Drunken Monkey's tip in his "PC Games Deals!!!" thread, I've just bought the "Brothers in Arms" pack. It's my first purchase on Steam, so can one of you guys now explain how Steam works? :stupid:
I thought I would buy the game and then access my Steam account to play the game, but after my purchase it gave me the option to DL the games. I selected one of the games (Road to Hill 30) and the DL began.
So, just a few questions:
1) Is the complete game DL'd to my pc and therefore I can play the game in single player mode without being connected to Steam?
2) Is it only necessary to connect through Steam if I wanted to play multi-player games (if so, is it just a case of joining a particular "community")?
3) I see that the game is DL'ing to the 'C' drive of my partioned 1TB HDD. As I have this HDD partioned as 100/900, I really wanted games etc to go on the larger partition ('D' drive). I was planning to leave 'C' just for OS and a few programs. I assume that this is because I must have DL'd Steam to the 'C' partition.
Would the only way to correct this be to uninstall the game and Steam and re-download Steam to the 'D' partition? (Is that even an option, or does Steam default download to 'C' drive?).
4) A record of all games I purchase will be permanently stored in the Steam library, so I can log in to Steam and DL them anytime, and as many times as I want....is that correct? If this is correct, what's to stop me me (or anyone else) logging on to a friends pc and DL'ing the same game from the library onto their pc also?
That's it for now (more Q's may follow )
Thanks for any replies.
I thought I would buy the game and then access my Steam account to play the game, but after my purchase it gave me the option to DL the games. I selected one of the games (Road to Hill 30) and the DL began.
So, just a few questions:
1) Is the complete game DL'd to my pc and therefore I can play the game in single player mode without being connected to Steam?
2) Is it only necessary to connect through Steam if I wanted to play multi-player games (if so, is it just a case of joining a particular "community")?
3) I see that the game is DL'ing to the 'C' drive of my partioned 1TB HDD. As I have this HDD partioned as 100/900, I really wanted games etc to go on the larger partition ('D' drive). I was planning to leave 'C' just for OS and a few programs. I assume that this is because I must have DL'd Steam to the 'C' partition.
Would the only way to correct this be to uninstall the game and Steam and re-download Steam to the 'D' partition? (Is that even an option, or does Steam default download to 'C' drive?).
4) A record of all games I purchase will be permanently stored in the Steam library, so I can log in to Steam and DL them anytime, and as many times as I want....is that correct? If this is correct, what's to stop me me (or anyone else) logging on to a friends pc and DL'ing the same game from the library onto their pc also?
That's it for now (more Q's may follow )
Thanks for any replies.