Using the gateway from my T-Mobile 5G Home Internet (I've had better luck with it than my colleague did), which was in the same room as one of my machines and one room away from the other, Steam was able to grab the Elden Ring files from my old AMD AM4 machine and move them to the AM5 / RTX 4090 system I just built at roughly twice the speed that I could download the game, or about 45 MBps. And if you're transferring via Wi-Fi, a lot will depend on how far away your systems are from your router or access point. Of course, how much faster this will be than downloading files from Steam's servers will depend both on how fast your internet and your network are. Launch Steam and select the Steam menu option in the upper-left corner, then select Settings. If you are going to transfer games to a Steam Deck, the menus might be slightly different, but the process should still essentially be the same. Note that this tutorial shows local transfer between two PCs running Steam. So no sharing between Steam Decks or PCs in Big Picture Mode – yet.īeyond that, Steam's local network game transfer feature is surprisingly simple to get going.

Only a PC in desktop mode can send files.

Both systems will need to be online and on the same network.

Also, the game needs to be up to date on that system.

The source system's Steam account needs to be idle – that's not running or downloading a game or game updates.

If both systems aren't logged in to the same account, you can also allow for transfers with devices owned by friends or anyone on your network, depending on your settings.

You'll need to have the Steam Beta client running on both systems.

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