Comment on Lancache.net - LAN Party game caching made easy
osprior@lemmy.world 5 months ago
With newer versions of Steam, it’s just handled automatically as long as you enable it, you can download from other players on the network. True not all games are on steam, and this probably works well for massive LAN setups, but I tried and failed to set this up, it’s a bit of a pain and personally found it not worth the effort.
just_another_person@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I believe it only works with machines signed into the same account though, no?
funkajunk@lemm.ee 5 months ago
By default it’s only for the the same account, but you can change it in the download settings to allow transfers to “Steam Friends” or “Anyone”.
rentar42@kbin.social 5 months ago
At a big enough LAN even just getting everyone to change that setting is probably harder than setting up a central cache. Don't underestimate the amount of people that listen to instructions, say sure and then just either not do it, or fail to do it correctly.
just_another_person@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Good to know.
enfluensa@ttrpg.network 5 months ago
By default yes, but you can set it to work for anyone on your friends list.