steam-lancache-prefill
Automatically fills a Lancache with games from Steam, so that subsequent downloads for the same content will be served from the Lancache, improving speeds and reducing load on your internet connection.
Features
- Selecting which apps to prefill can be done through an interactive menu.
- Supports login with Steam Guard, and Steam Guard Mobile Authenticator
- No installation required! A completely self-contained, portable application.
- Multi-platform support (Windows, Linux, MacOS, Arm64, Docker, Unraid)
- High-performance! Downloads are significantly faster than using Steam. Downloads can scale all the way up to 100gbit/s!
- Game downloads write no data to disk, so there is no need to have enough free space available. This also means no unnecessary wear-and-tear to SSDs!
- Includes a built in benchmark feature for diagnosing performance bottlenecks!
Table of contents
- Installation
- Getting Started
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Detailed Command Usage
- Updating
- Need Help?
Installation
SteamPrefill is flexible and portable, and supports multiple platforms and configurations. It can be run directly on the Lancache server itself, or on your gaming machine as an alternative Steam client. You should decide which one works better for your use case.
Detailed setup guides are available for the following platforms:
Getting Started
Selecting what to prefill
[!WARNING]
This guide was written with Linux in mind. If you are running SteamPrefill on Windows you will need to substitute ./SteamPrefill with .\SteamPrefill.exe instead.
Prior to prefilling for the first time, you will have to decide which apps should be prefilled. This will be done using an interactive menu, for selecting what to prefill from all of your currently owned apps. To display the interactive menu, run the following command
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Automatically fills a Lancache with games from Steam, so that subsequent downloads for the same content will be served from the Lancache, improving speeds and reducing load on your internet connection.
Features
- Selecting which apps to prefill can be done through an interactive menu.
- Supports login with Steam Guard, and Steam Guard Mobile Authenticator
- No installation required! A completely self-contained, portable application.
- Multi-platform support (Windows, Linux, MacOS, Arm64, Docker, Unraid)
- High-performance! Downloads are significantly faster than using Steam. Downloads can scale all the way up to 100gbit/s!
- Game downloads write no data to disk, so there is no need to have enough free space available. This also means no unnecessary wear-and-tear to SSDs!
- Includes a built in benchmark feature for diagnosing performance bottlenecks!
Table of contents
- Installation
- Getting Started
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Detailed Command Usage
- Updating
- Need Help?
Installation
SteamPrefill is flexible and portable, and supports multiple platforms and configurations. It can be run directly on the Lancache server itself, or on your gaming machine as an alternative Steam client. You should decide which one works better for your use case.
Detailed setup guides are available for the following platforms:
Getting Started
Selecting what to prefill
[!WARNING]
This guide was written with Linux in mind. If you are running SteamPrefill on Windows you will need to substitute ./SteamPrefill with .\SteamPrefill.exe instead.
Prior to prefilling for the first time, you will have to decide which apps should be prefilled. This will be done using an interactive menu, for selecting what to prefill from all of your currently owned apps. To display the interactive menu, run the following command
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