Download Steam For Pc Offline Installer

[Vernon]

Whilesetting up Rebel Galaxy through steam one of the steps for the first time setup was running Redist installers, however unlike the installers i've had to use in the past i got no Install Shield-like installer showing if was checking what i currently had, downloading and/or installing.

Since for the most part i want to run Steam offline, i want to know if the Redist Install Packages from Steam are offline installs or if it's up to the developer to include an offline one (i don't know if it's Valve of the developer setting up those first time setup processes)

The redistributables are quietly/silently installed using commandline switches/flags. This makes it slightly faster & less annoying as it doesn't have to show the installer window or wait for us to click through the installer.

With "SteamWorks Common Redistributables" (SCR) they are setup by devs, but the install scripts and redistributable installers themselves are managed by Valve. The devs can apparently still manage their own installscript.vdf to do this, but it'd be much easier to just opt-in to SCR.

The installers themselves seem to use whatever names they were given by Microsoft or whomever develops & licenses them to others, so if it's a web-based installer it should be obvious (if you can find it in the Steam folder). e.g. "dxwebsetup.exe" vs "directx_MonYear_redist.exe".

I can't check as my PC is dead, but there's no good reason for Valve to use web installers, and in my years of poking around I never saw a web installer for a redist in any of the few hundred games I installed.

That being said we do need to note that devs can include custom or uncommon redistributables that they will package with their game. So, yes it's still possible to have web-based installers from the devs, but very unlikely because of bandwidth costs.

I'm trying to set up the Vive Pro on a computer with no internet connection. I have another machine with access to the internet I can use to move files to this device. I tried downloading the installer on the computer with internet access, and moving it to the machine I intend to use it on but it looks as if you need a network connection to run the installer. Would I be able to just run the installer on the machine with an internet connection, download the files it needs then move those files to the offline machine to complete the setup, or is there another way to set up the Vive Pro on the offline machine?

I ended up trying to run the installer on the machine with an internet connection, but still ran into the "Download failed: Check your network connection and try again" issue I thought was originally caused by the firewall. Is there a way to set up the Vive Pro with out it? An entirely offline installer of sorts?

I think you need to have SteamVR installed beforehand (which needs internet to do). Then you may be able to run it in offline mode. Still probably best to do all this with a proper internet connection to begin with imho.

I downloaded the standalone parts from the warframe website from b0 to b5 every file is 2 GB except the b5 file is 1.20 GB and the exe file and i thought that when i put them together in a folder and click the exe file it will work but it just start upgrading and downloading 9400 MB ....so how does the standalone installer work?

It's also a bit vague when you mentioned "upgrading and downloading". Were you referring to the launcher? Perhaps the offline installer is outdated and it's trying to patch to the recent version on first run?

thanks guys for replying

@Naftal @Momaw yea i don't have a very good download rate it would take 10 hours to download so when i found that there is a chunks to be downloaded i tried it but if it didn't work at all i will use the ordinary method.

As you can see these offline files for FO4 GOTY (from GoG) are version 1.10.163.0. Let's say the game gets an update again. Then at some point you have to uninstall and reinstall for whatever reason. If you use the setup file above when you reinstall will GoG Galaxy just automatically update it beyond 1.10.163.0, or will it download the whole thing all over again? My bandwidth is limited to 700 GB per month, so larger game downloads like this are a problem.

Given that this is happening on Thursday, the 25th, it would probably be best to download the game then because the coming update is supposed to be pretty big. I don't know what kind of a delay there will be for the offline packages but they should get updated before too long after the big update.

You're probably correct. I was looking through a couple of my other games and they do have some type of offline patch installers. SSE, for instance, has a single file that updates the game to the latest version (screenshot). Stardew Valley has several of them (screenshot). FO4, however, doesn't have any yet (screenshot), for reasons I don't understand.

What annoys me about Steam is that it appears to make you download everything again when you want to reinstall a game, regardless of whether you have a backup of the game files stored on your PC. I'm certain that this is the case with other clients like Origin and Epic Games. Hopefully GoG Galaxy won't be the same way, because I've deliberately stopped using Steam and other game clients for games that are also available on GoG.

From what I've read it's 24-48 hours (on average) for the offline packages to get sorted out after a game updates, though some people claim it can take a week or more. I haven't actually kept track, so who knows what is actually true.

Are you using the feature properly? You have to use the Restore Game Backup option from the menu, not the Install button on the game page. I've found it installs the game just fine from the backup and only downloads updates.

I guess not. Apparently what you're describing is a special feature in Steam, which I wasn't aware of. What I did was copy the game installation directory to another location on my PC using Windows. Then when I wanted to reinstall copy it back to the Steam directory. This worked at some point in the past, but then it suddenly didn't anymore. Does the process you're describing consume internet bandwidth, or does it just copy your existing installation to a backup location? I would have to plan accordingly if it does actually download the backup files from the internet instead of simply transferring files already on my PC.

Unless something has changed recently, it should be possible to copy the files back into the game folder under Steam and then tell Steam to install the game. It's supposed to skip over the parts you already have and only reacquire the ones that you don't have or that are outdated. So it would be something you'd need to keep up on each time the game updates.

Interesting. Maybe I'm thinking of Origin and/or Epic Games refusing to recognize the files when I did it that way. I'll have to try it out in Steam again on a game that doesn't have a very big download and see what happens. It could also be that some registry entries related to the game were corrupted or deleted somehow (like when doing a fresh Windows installation), and that confused the Steam client.

@Arthmoor You were right; that still works. Steam only verified the game files to make sure they were correct. The verification process took 2-3 minutes. Assuming the internet data usage feature in Windows is accurate, Steam only used around 50MB during the process. The game I tested this method on would have been a 7.7GB download.

Does the process you're describing consume internet bandwidth, or does it just copy your existing installation to a backup location? I would have to plan accordingly if it does actually download the backup files from the internet instead of simply transferring files already on my PC.

Nice to know. Thanks for the explanation. This would probably be the way for me to go rather than making a backup copy of the entire folders for Steam games, since it compresses the files a bit. My external drive, where I backup my files, is getting closer to running out of space, and I would rather not have to buy another one any sooner than necessary.

Interms of physical disc. There is a CD key, problem is it lacks disc 1.

I am just wondering if there is a way to use CD Key to download the game installer, or have a offline installer and use the CD Key i own for it.

I also love that Exe files or executable files is more independent from one software. But i do use Steam. So it isnt a problem. Though i rely mostly on GOG. For example, there is the thing with Blizzard who made Warcraft 3 Reforged, and i didnt like how the menys looked. But thankfully since i own original copy of Reign of Chaos and The Frozen Throne and in the manuals i have original CD keys. So all i had to do was find offline installers from Blizzard online, copy it to external harddrive and have my CD key be saved in textfile. And then i had the superior game. Its one of reasons why physical ownership is great too. Its also the feeling of having the game rather than a license to use it aslong as the software is up.

But in theory, as long as the source of your sim is the same, disk or store, you may get away with installing from the DVD, and pointing the installer to the location of folder you copied over from the other machine.

In the first post I pointed out the problems with the Internet. It takes a very long time, even if the installer is fine. It takes much less time to install the application from the DVD and download updates. So I would like to know: where are the update files on the simulator site, so you can download them separately into your archive and use them in case of unforeseen reinstallation of the simulator?

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