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Re: Steam - Question re downloading episode 2, Broken sword 5

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From: Mary
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 18:36
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"mick" <coughcough@privacy.com> wrote in message 
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>>
>>Can someone who is familiar with Steam help me to find out where I 
>>download episode 2 of BS 5 or do I have to download the complete game and 
>>most of all how and where do I find it?
>>
>
> By the sound of it it comes down as an update.

> Try this.
> In your Steam client right-click the Broken Sword entry and select 
> Properties.
> Select the Updates tab. In the 'Automatic Updates' dropdown select 'High 
> Priority - Always auto update this game ASAP'. Close the Steam client then 
> launch it again. It *should* start downloading the
> full version of the game. Good luck :-)

The day after I posted the above message, and before I saw your above post, 
part 2 of the game was downloaded to my computer when I was in the middle of 
doing something -nothing to do with Steam. A window suddenly appeared on the 
screen saying "downloading Broken sword 5" or something. I was quite 
amazed -I've never had that happen. You were right Mick, it was an update or 
episode 2 and not the whole game as I thought might happen, so it took the 
same 3 hours to download as part 1, which was good and not the entire game. 
I didn't think that would happen. You can see I am not familiar with 
downloading games from Steam. this is first time. Gog is much easier for me 
to figure out.

I've been playing adventure games for 24 years, where you buy the box with 
the CD/DVD inside and put in your CD/DVD rom. Much easier than downloading 
and in my experience Steam is hard to figure out and the screen is very 
dark. I had to turn the brightness way up more than usual. Gog is much 
easier, but in case I need to get a game at Steam sometime, I wanted to see 
how it works. After it was downloaded, I also followed your instructions to 
see how to download an update from Steam. There are so many choices 
everywhere on Steam.

I wasnt sure with some of the terms used on Steam either such as "In your 
Steam Client right click" you mentioned. I figured it probably means your 
Steam account?  Everything is easy when you know how :)

Thank you for your instructions and help. I am still working on Part 1. The 
game is quite interesting. Puzzles are not that hard a lot is problem 
solving and following the story.Very nice graphics.I like George and 
Nico-others were good too.

Mary




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