Steam Family Sharing set up
The function of the Steam library can share, is called "Steam Family Sharing". You can give your library for up to five Accounts free. Prerequisite: Steam Guard must be for your Account to be activated. This is the case, set up Steam Family Sharing is as follows:
- Click in the menu bar of your Steam client, click "Steam" then "settings".
- Select in the area of "family" on the Button "family view, manage...". You can now specify whether all or only specified games to be released.
- After clicking on "Next" you can set a PIN for the family view.
- In the next step, you must also enter a secret code that is sent to you via E-Mail.
Steam family view
Other users authorize
You want to share your Steam library now for a family member or a friend, you need to authorize his Computer for the use of the author:
- Log in to the Computer of the Person you want to share your library with your own user data.
- Click in the menu bar of the Steam client back to "Steam" > "settings".
- In the area of "family" select the Account you want to grant access to your library. Then click on the Button "authorize This Computer to authorize".
Steam: authorize Computer
If you have your Steam user name and have forgotten, helps you this manual , and the access to your game collection back.
