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Valve will be adding a new service entitled Family Sharing to Steam, allowing users to share a game with household members across multiple accounts.

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Here's how it works: One person authorises a computer to share their Steam library with any so-called family members using the same machine. The other family members will then be able to access the lender's games on their own account where they can earn their own Steam achievements and store their own saves.

Simultaneous usage of an account's library is not allowed, however. The lender will always have access to their library - be it on the shared machine or another device - while the borrower will have a few minutes to either purchase a shared title or quit if the original owner attempts to access their Steam library at the same time.

Aug 25, 2014 - Just bought a ton of new Steam games? Maybe you're swapping to a new computer and (for whatever reason) need to re-download your. Once you enter the verification code, your PC will be granted access to their Steam account. Game sharing. How to share steam games. Steam Family Sharing. That said, Steam Also allows you to have multiple download folders which means you can store the games wherever you want. Open Steam, and go to Settings > Downloads > Steam Library Folders. Aug 25, 2014 - Want to download half your backlog in one go? Steam has you covered in a recent update, which allows multiple games to be downloaded in. Navigate to your Steam directory. (Typically C: Program Files Steam or C: Program Files Valve Steam. If you wish to save your game files for a future installation of Steam, copy your steamapps folder outside of your Steam directory. Delete all of the contents of your Steam directory. Go to Start > Run and type in regedit. Steam now lets you install multiple games at once. Use Shift-Click to select multiple games, right-click, and choose Install. You can also use Control-click to exclude individual games from the list. Well thats weird, i clearly remember downloading multiple games at once before. My download speed hits its maximum potential when downloading multiple games though, it is slightly slower on single download cases.

Steam users will be able to enable Family Sharing on up to 10 devices per account.

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A few other details: Not all games can be shared, as some require third-party subscription keys. Additionally, DLC can be shared by a lender, but a borrower cannot buy DLC for someone else's game. So if you're playing a friend's copy of, say, The Binding of Isaac and you want to buy the Wrath of the Lamb expansion, you'll have to pony up and buy the base game yourself.

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'Our customers have expressed a desire to share their digital games among friends and family members, just as current retail games, books, DVDs, and other physical media can be shared,' said Valve's Anna Sweet. 'Family Sharing was created in direct response to these user requests.'

To throw your hat into the Friend Sharing beta ring, sign up for the Steam Family Sharing group. A thousand applicants will be let into the beta in mid-September.

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When trying to download more than one game at once (Cogs and Frozen Synapse in my case), Steam will fail to download them both. As soon as the second game is selected to download, the first pauses. If you unpause it so that both should be downloading at the same time, neither game will download. It will just sit there, acting like they're paused, when they're not. System info:

On windows I don't I ever saw steam download more than 1 game at once. All are paused except for one. Maybe there's a bug here that is causing the download to fail instead of just pausing, but i think it's a 'by design' decision for steam to not download more than 1 game at once.

@mewt666 I was always able to download multiple games on Windows. When I buy Humble Bundles in particular, I download every game at once overnight so I can play them in the morning. I always checked to make sure they were all downloading, and sure enough, every game was downloading together.

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My experience is that on Windows, it used to download in parallel, but since a recent update the client only downloads one game at a time. I'm guessing this is done on purpose to limit the number of concurrent connections to valve servers.

GCF and NCF games could download simultaneously, but the newer ACF format will only ever download one at a time. All NCF games are slowly being transitioned to ACF (this is now largely complete - at least for the 250+ games I own), which is why 'recently' you very rarely see multiple games downloading at the same time.

The change to just a single active download is an intentional change, so I'm closing this.