How To Share Your Steam Library

Video gaming is becoming a more expensive hobby every year. While old consoles are often cheap to come by, new ones retail for hundreds of dollars. Even if you opt to use a computer, you’ll probably need to drop a lot of money just to buy (or build) a PC that can run the newest titles effectively. And that’s just the system – you then need to buy the games to play.

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Thankfully, Steam has answered players’ pleas – . It is ‘s service allows PC gamers purchase video games play convenient library . added bonus , it is allows allows share library Steam users Family settings parents raising generation gamers .

step – – step guide is walk walkhow to allow another Steam user to access and play all your games through your library. 

Things Mind Activating Steam Family Sharing

• Steam recommends recommendsusing Steam Guard if you are sharing games with other accounts.
• You can only share library Steam accounts on up to ten different devices.
• Only one person can use each library at a time, even when playing two different games. You can both play games from your individual libraries, but you can’t both play games from one person’s library.

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• You can’t share just one game with someone – you have to share your entire library.
• This service is intended people live household .So, if you’re sharing with someone who doesn’t live with you, Steam notes that you may run into errors or issues that they don’t provide support for.
• Certain games supported to share this way.
• person is If share games cheating way ,ability share games revoked .

The Step By Step Process To Enabling Family Sharing On Steam

Step : Login Steam Computer

First, you need to boot up Steam on the computer you want to share your library with. Sign out the person who usually games on this PC and sign .

Step Two: Navigate To Family Settings

left , click button labeled“Steam” and click on the option “Settings.” This will open a secondary menu with various types of settings to choose from.

Select“Family” settings left .

Step Three: Authorize Library Sharing

Once you’ve found the right menu, you’ll want to hit the checkbox that says “Authorize Library Sharing on this computer.” This means that any account you are allowing to see your library will be able to use it on this device.

, you is find find list steam accounts logged ( recently ) device .Click the checkbox next to the usernames of anyone you want to give access to your library. 

You’re done!

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Hit “OK” in the bottom right, exit out of the settings and allow the other user to log back into their account. They should be able to view all the games that you own from their own library.

wanting access games , they is need need repeat process logging account computer .

Managing   Library   Sharing Permissions End

Once you have authorized another device and user to access your steam library, you is be able manage account , computer . Start navigating Steam Family settings . list include ” eligible accounts ” include users currently sharing .

If you just want to stop an entire account from accessing your library, uncheck the checkbox next to their username. Once you’ve hit “OK” and exited out, they’ll have lost access to your library.

If you want to stop sharing with a particular computer – not a user – click link right labeled ” Manage computers . ” This is bring   bring   list computers permission view library . course ,   ” Device Names is be ” indecipherable multiple computers   list . You is tell tell computer looking library recently Steam user .

If the person you shared games with suddenly cannot access your library, it probably just means you haven’t been logged in on that device for a while and you just need to sign again and confirm their access.

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