Steam update allows background downloading while playing a game

Per game option

You can now tell Steam to continue downloading updates/games while playing games from your games’ properties. Note that this setting is not available for non-steam games, which will always use the global setting.

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Installing the game back at your gaming rig

1. Close steam.
2. Find your steam folder
3. copy the game where the other games are. Usually the steamapps\common folder. Leave the name of the folder unchanged
4. From the game you’ve just copied, move the appmanifest file with the other manifests in the steamapps folder.
5. Open steam and you should see your game as installed in your library.
6. You can verify that your game is ok following these instructions.

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