PookaMustard: In addition to that, I think that you need to run these DRM-free games through their executables in order to take advantage of their DRM-free nature and play on as many devices as you want, because if you try the regular Steam way, Steam will complain because you're already logged in somewhere else and won't let you continue.

Careful with these DRM-free games though. They may be DRM-free, but they're still bound to Steam's rules and methods of all their games, backups require Steam to work and the works.

amok: Only if you use Steams backup tool. The drm free games on Steam can be backed up manually and works without steam afterwards. They are not really bound to steams 'rules and methods'... if they did they wouldn't not be drm free.... you only need steam as a downloader for the initial download. I think we have been here before?

johnnygoging: you can do what you're asking if I am understanding your post correctly.

simply understand Steam Family Sharing, and you will be able to play games in eachother's library.

that is, you will be able to play a game from his library, and he will be able to play a game from yours at the same time, but you will not be able to play a game from one library or two games from one library at the same time.

games bought on Steam are not transferrable to gog. just as stuff bought at sears cannot be returned at costco.

PookaMustard: But again, I can't trust if a game requires some pesky registry entries in order to run firsthand or not

PookaMustard: Plus the other problem is that you need STEAM to download anything from Steam

brunosiffredi: Steam has a family system 'thing' that allows you to grant access to your games to other accounts. It's a bit wonky and I've personally had a bad experience trying to get it to work, but it's in there.

brunosiffredi: Steam has a family system 'thing' that allows you to grant access to your games to other accounts. It's a bit wonky and I've personally had a bad experience trying to get it to work, but it's in there.

johnnygoging:

samlii: I don't think this would give swedewolf what they are looking for. If I am playing a game from my library, no one else can play a game from my library. I wish it could it would save so much strife. Right now my sons can not play games from my library simultaneously, so its almost as bad as only having one computer if they both want to play games that are only in my library.

samlii: I don't think this would give swedewolf what they are looking for. If I am playing a game from my library, no one else can play a game from my library. I wish it could it would save so much strife. Right now my sons can not play games from my library simultaneously, so its almost as bad as only having one computer if they both want to play games that are only in my library.

brunosiffredi: I think with Family Sharing you can play two games from the same library on different PCs at the same time.

Anyway, it is still pretty terrible and in no way does Steam offer the same freedom as pure DRM-free games from GOG, but if swedewolf already owns the games on Steam, I think he should give it a try.

mechmouse: THat always makes me laugh when people say SFS is designed for a single computer. SO why can you authorise 10 computer.
mechmouse: The ONLY way to play 2 different games from a library is if one computer has the account in offline mode.

THERE IS NO OTHER WAY.

2 years on and people really don't know how it works.

mechmouse: The ONLY way to play 2 different games from a library is if one computer has the account in offline mode.

THERE IS NO OTHER WAY.

2 years on and people really don't know how it works.

JMich: All required registry entries (if any) will be found in installscript.vdf, that is how Steam knows what to add. You will have to do a bit of parsing if you try to add them manually, but it is in a human readable format.

JMich: SteamCMD. Perfect for downloads on remote boxes.

johnnygoging: so bob can't play a game from bill's library at the same time bill is playing a game from bob's library?

PookaMustard: The big problem is that its done manually without Steam, and there's that.