BY INSTALLING STEAMOS, YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT. THIS AGREEMENT CONTAINS IMPORTANT TERMS THAT AFFECT YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS.

YOU SHOULD CAREFULLY READ THE ENTIRE FOLLOWING LICENSE AGREEMENT BEFORE INSTALLING STEAMOS. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT, PLEASE DO NOT INSTALL STEAMOS. So Steam Decks, PCs in Big Picture mode, and custom launchers can currently not transfer files out over the local network.YOU SHOULD CAREFULLY READ THE ENTIRE FOLLOWING LICENSE AGREEMENT BEFORE INSTALLING STEAMOS.

Only a PC running in Steam desktop mode can send files.

The game needs to be up-to-date on the PC sending the game files.

The game needs to released to the public and playable by both Steam users (no preloads).Game content can only be transferred out if the transferring Steam client is idle, e.g.There are a few limits to the feature Valve notes. The local transfer from my wired desktop's PCIe Gen 4 SSD to the Steam Deck's internal storage (via wi-fi) was only moving at about 25 MB/s, while the speed jumped to more than 35 MB/s once I started downloading from Steam's servers. In my quick testing, it was actually faster for me to download Elden Ring to my Steam Deck than to transfer it from my PC. If a friend comes over with their Steam Deck and wants to download Apex Legends to play together, for example, you could potentially get things going a lot more quickly by transferring them your 60 gigs of game files-although that's going to depend a lot on the hardware on both ends. However, you can set it to also support people on your Steam friends list or any users. By default the feature only allows transfers between systems logged into the same Steam account.

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