Question Steam Games On Mac |SOLVED|

[Binski12]

Hello, I have a mac to use in an area with pretty poor connection, and downloading a game on steam would take absolutely forever (8+ hours)

My PC at home can download it quite fast, and the game is for both steam and mac
(i do know that they are different, its not the same file for both OS)

I read somewhere that i could transfer over my windows version of the game (in this case DOTA 2) to the mac, and steam would download the mac-related files (non-GCF)

i have dota 2 on my usb, and tried to install it on the mac, and it didnt work

if you want to see if i read it wrong (100% possible, read most of this stuff dead tired)
here is a link

Worst case scenario, i set up wine, but id rather not do that...

edit: changed thread name to solved, cant select my own answer as the solution

 

[ss202sl]

Did you read the whole thread. You're talking 2 very different OS's. You can't download on a windows box, and play those windows games on a mac. You'd have to download them on a mac.

 

[Binski12]

Did you read the whole thread. You're talking 2 very different OS's. You can't download on a windows box, and play those windows games on a mac. You'd have to download them on a mac.

Spoiler

Can I drag my CrossOver/Bootcamp/Other Windows files (GCF.'s) into my Steam Content folder on the Mac, so I don't have to download the whole game again?
It appears as though you can, Although Steam (On your mac) will update the Game Cache Files to include the mac binaries, but it does save you from re-downloading the whole game again

And the instructions given for moving the files:


1.Copy the whole of...

C:/Program Files/Steam/steamapps

Copy that folder and paste it's contents into...

2. ~/Library/Application Support/Steam/Steamapps

~ is another sign for your own directory. So this would be:

/Users/YOU/Library/Application Support/Steam/Steamapps

Obviously i cant play a .exe on a mac, not without wine anyways.

 

[Binski12]

Hello, I figured it out

(HINT: IT WORKED)

i just transferred the dota 2 beta folder
needed the appmanifest too

and that reduced the 15.6GB (?) download to
about 300mb

if anyone needs help with it pm me