Steam for esports

[CarefreeRob]

Hi All,

Apologies if this has been dealt with before, tried searching but couldn't find anything.

Scenario: I have installed Steam on 10 x PC's, got Dota2 and CS:GO installed and working.
I have the students meat up once a week for playing sessions, but the updates are killing me.
(Only a 4mb line). Its uncapped, so not worried about files size, but rather the time to do the
updates on 10 pc's every time we meet up.

Can anyone advise on a system that I can put in place to share the updates between the PC's.
Some sort of incremental backup etc? Doing a backup, then restoring on the other 9 pc's also
takes too long.

Any advise would be appreciated.

Many Thanks

 

[Pitbull]

Hi All,

Apologies if this has been dealt with before, tried searching but couldn't find anything.

Scenario: I have installed Steam on 10 x PC's, got Dota2 and CS:GO installed and working.
I have the students meat up once a week for playing sessions, but the updates are killing me.
(Only a 4mb line). Its uncapped, so not worried about files size, but rather the time to do the
updates on 10 pc's every time we meet up.

Can anyone advise on a system that I can put in place to share the updates between the PC's.
Some sort of incremental backup etc? Doing a backup, then restoring on the other 9 pc's also
takes too long.

Any advise would be appreciated.

Many Thanks

Why not just update one PC and then copy the updated files to the other machines? There is a steam section somewhere that tell you how to move files from locations on different drives.

 

[Fulcrum29]

You can share the SteamApps, many tutorials online. Steam actually has LAN updating, but only currently supported by their Valve Cyber Cafe program.

 

[CarefreeRob]

That is an option, but together CS and Dota are about 15Gb. Takes just under an hour to do that approach. Hoping there is a faster way.

 

[Pitbull]

That is an option, but together CS and Dota are about 15Gb. Takes just under an hour to do that approach. Hoping there is a faster way.

https://www.google.com/search?q=How...8&sourceid=ie7&rlz=1I7WQIB_enZA567&gws_rd=ssl

 

[-Misfit-]

You can set up a local cache server. Try this guide, though it might be outdated: http://blog.multiplay.co.uk/2014/04/lancache-dynamically-caching-game-installs-at-lans-using-nginx/