Steam shared files downloader

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This results in having much lesser waiting times for you to enjoy the game as the files are pretty much common between the two OSs as we are going to see in the following example. Even on doing a validation check, a vast majority of the files could not be identified by Steam. We also did a similar test on Windows, but the result was the same! Time for some manual tweaks to share Steam games between Windows and Linux!

This is the default installation location for Steam for Linux. We would recommend having a custom Steam installation location for easier handling of files.

This is the location which contains the majority of the files that we need common between Windows and Linux :. Here below we see. To confirm the same, just open the file with an editor and check. The more we understand this file, the better. Here is a post on the Steam forums that shows its major significance.

It looks something like this:. After uninstalling the game on Linux to try the test, we now have a look at the contents of the same game on Windows While copying the. So instead of the entire So this is a massive time gain, relatively speaking. The manifest file can certainly be edited and tweaked for improving these results to make Steam detect as many files as it can.