How To Re Add Games To Epicgames Launcher

Unlike Steam or, hell, even Ubisoft Connect, Epic Games Store even so hasn't found information technology necessary to let united states to point at an install directory for games when we apply a new launcher install. Therefore, if you're using a fresh EGS install, information technology will not encounter your games, no affair what. Information technology'southward a fleck of a problem that the visitor has been in no hurry to gear up. In that location are workarounds, of class. There's one listed on the Epic Games store, but at that place's an even simpler mode to do information technology following the same logic. Annotation that this only works if your original install is up to appointment. Here'southward what you do.

Go to the game'due south install directory on your PC. Yous'll need to remember where they're saved beyond just the drive, and so, if you can't remember for whatever reason, you'll want to practice a search on that bulldoze. The install directory is near always the game name.Pace one: rename that folder past adding a number or letter to the finish. You need to do this because EGS won't install a folder when an identically-named one exists.Stride 2:find the game in your EGS library and install information technology to the same identify equally your original.

Pace three:end the download afterwards a few seconds. Either pause the game on your library page or go to your downloads on the left and click cancel. This will end the process.Step four: go into the new install folder on your drive and cutting or re-create the folder called ".egstore". Go into your original folder and delete the .egstore folder in there and and then paste in the new one.Step five: delete the new install folder and rename the original 1 by deleting whatever number or alphabetic character y'all added.

We're in the home stretch now. Get back into EGS and click "resume" on the game in question. It volition then verify the files. This might take a few minutes. If you try to do this with a game that isn't updated, it will start the download from the beginning, and so try to avert that. If your install is the current version, it'll verify information technology without event. Once it's done, yous'll be able to play the game without downloading anything.

Granted, this is only worth doing if the install is on the larger side. If cloud saves aren't enabled in the game, yous'll accept to copy those over besides, which basically requires the same matter we did here, but with different directories.

It's annoying that, even afterward all these years and all the coin Epic has spent to compete with Steam, information technology still lacks basic features similar using existing installs, just maybe they'll go information technology ane day. If non, information technology'southward not the most enormous pain in the world to go through these steps. Still, if yous've got a large number of games installed, it can certainly have a while. It seems a fairly unproblematic fix for better functionality, so it'll hopefully be an official option before long. If non, I'll just go along gritting my teeth.

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