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Using Max Payne 3 retail files with Steam

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ErrEff

Here's a rare problem that I want to solve. I already own Max Payne 3 on Steam but I also have a retail copy because I don't want to download all that data.

I installed and copied the files over so that it looks like this:

E:/SteamLibrary/SteamApps/common/Max Payne 3/Max Payne 3/MaxPayne3.exe

According to some sources, this is how the file structure should look. Steam seems to think so too because it detected pre-existing files when I started installing it and took like 20 minutes to discover them. However, once the discovery process is over, Steam starts downloading the entire game all over again (27 GB). What gives? I had already updated the retail version through the Rockstar Games Updater, so it should be current.

Anyone that has done this before that can help me, or at least someone else that owns it on Steam that can verify what the file structure looks like?

EDIT: Okay, it looks like Steam actually nuked most of the game files after discovering them. Many of the folders are empty now, and the total size of the folder is just short of 200 MB. Fucking weird.

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js93583

Exit and restart Steam. It might help.

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IndividuoMori

try to verify the integrity, that should fix any files discordance

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ErrEff

I'm going to reinstall it and then do a verify afterwards, hopefully the paused download won't break things.

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js93583

It may not work at all, because of the Steampipe update. Many of my discs are worthless now, others are halfway useful. My Rage discs did what you described asking for the whole 19.3GB download. Restarting Steam and the download made it need 'only' a 7GB update/download.

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beastt

steam download's the current patched version > not version 1 then the updates. If the game is up to say version 3 (3 patches) it wil only download that version and delete the rest that isn't @ version 3

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ErrEff

Yeah, I had already updated the retail files using the updater (that actually autoruns right after the install).

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js93583

So did it work? Or are you still installing from disc?

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ErrEff

About 75% done. I'll try to verify the files once it's over and they're updated again.

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js93583

I hope it works, I'd like to do this with Arkham City, because my bandwidth cap sucks.

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ErrEff

Yeah, same here.

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ErrEff

Update: It finally worked.

So after Steam had previously destroyed my installation of the game, I uninstalled and then reinstalled the retail version of the game, again to ...common/Max Payne 3/Max Payne 3/. This time, however, I did not apply any of the updates through the Rockstar Games Updater but just cancelled it instead (I am unsure of how important this step is).

I then went back into Steam and resumed the file download for Max Payne 3. I had paused it at maybe 200 MB downloaded and it immediately rocketed to 27.0 of 27.3 GB downloaded. Then it just finished up and I can now play the damn game.

Still don't understand why it deleted the previous incarnation of the files, but whatever - that's Steam for you.

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Closed 11 years ago by ErrEff.