HGL
Heroic Games Launcher•2y ago
adverse-sapphire

Copy game from one computer to another

At home, I have very bad bandwidth (~1MB/s). I bought a 4G/5G router and have subscribed to a data plan: 260GB/month. It's faster (~10MB/s), but installing games as large as 80GB using the data plan is just not feasible, as it would deplete the available data. So I downloaded the game at a friend's place, on my laptop, using their fiber connection. Yesterday I copied the game from my laptop onto my home computer, into the right folders. But when I start the Heroic Games Launcher, it does not detect the game as installed. I copied both the install directory and the prefixes directory to the right places. Is there anything I missed or I should do to have the game properly detected?
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rival-black
rival-black•2y ago
open the installation dialog of the game and you have an import button that let's you pick the folder where the game files are located
adverse-sapphire
adverse-sapphireOP•2y ago
I tried to import it, though it's already in the installation directory, and it said "game imported", but it's still markes as "not installed". What path should I provide when importing? The installation directory, down to the game folder itself, for example "AlanWake2"? Ah wait I think I didn't pass the install folder before now I'm getting an error 
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[cli] INFO: Using prefix "/home/pawamoy/Games/Heroic/Prefixes/default/Alan Wake 2"
[cli] INFO: No Legendary-managed installation found.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "legendary/cli.py", line 3148, in <module>File "legendary/cli.py", line 3097, in main
File "legendary/cli.py", line 2229, in manage_eos_overlay
File "legendary/lfs/eos.py", line 52, in query_registry_entries
ValueError: No user.reg file, invalid path
[83558] Failed to execute script 'cli' due to unhandled exception!
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[cli] INFO: Using prefix "/home/pawamoy/Games/Heroic/Prefixes/default/Alan Wake 2"
[cli] INFO: No Legendary-managed installation found.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "legendary/cli.py", line 3148, in <module>File "legendary/cli.py", line 3097, in main
File "legendary/cli.py", line 2229, in manage_eos_overlay
File "legendary/lfs/eos.py", line 52, in query_registry_entries
ValueError: No user.reg file, invalid path
[83558] Failed to execute script 'cli' due to unhandled exception!
lol, it's marked as installed though now OK, I guess it's solved then! thank you for your help @arieljuod , really appreciate it 🙂

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