Installing EPIC Games Launcher and having it detect previously installed game files

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Installing EPIC Games Launcher and having it detect previously installed game files

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Steam does this really well (you just re-install the game to the same folder it's already installed in, and Steam automatically detects it and does a verify instead of a complete install,.

Epic can do this as well, but you have to trick it into doing it.

I just installed the Epic launcher on the new gaming PC and didn't want to have to re-download all the game files if I didn't have to (the games are all in a folder on a different drive than the boot drive).

The trick in this article worked for me:

https://www.epicgames.com/help/en-US/ep ... ames-a3820
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