How to update/install Epic Games games if there are multiple OS Images that uses the same Game Image

Scenario:

1. Center has 2 OS images, and has 1 game image.

• OSImage1

• OSImage2

2. Games are installed in Game Images.

• GamesImage

How to update/install games, so it will not redownload the games from the other clients that are using another OS image:

• Start up a client from one of the OSImage1

• Install/download the Game

• Copy the files inside these folders below

%LocalAppData%\EpicGamesLauncher
C:\ProgramData\Epic

• Create a folder for each in the game drive

  • Example

  • G:\Epic Games\Epic
    G:\Epic Games\EpicGamesLauncher

• Paste the files from %LocalAppData%\EpicGamesLauncher to G:\Epic Games\EpicGamesLauncher

• Paste the files from C:\ProgramData\Epic to G:\Epic Games\Epic

• Delete EpicGamesLauncher Folder from %LocalAppData%

• Delete Epic Folder from C:\ProgramData

• Mklink these folders to their original location using these commands in CMD (in this example, we copied the files to G:\Epic Games\EpicGamesLauncher, and G:\Epic Games\Epic).

mklink /J "%LocalAppData%\EpicGamesLauncher" "G:\Epic Games\EpicGamesLauncher"


mklink /J "C:\ProgramData\Epic" "G:\Epic Games\Epic"

• Once the link is successful, shut down the PC, and apply the writebacks from OS and game images.

• Startup another PC from a different OS image

• Delete these files from these folders

%LocalAppData%\EpicGamesLauncher

C:\ProgramData%\Epic

• Do an MKlink again from CMD

mklink /J "%LocalAppData%\EpicGamesLauncher" "G:\Epic Games\EpicGamesLauncher" 

mklink /J "C:\ProgramData\Epic" "G:\Epic Games\Epic"

• Once the link is successful, shut down the PC, and apply the writebacks from OS image.

Note: You only need to do this once.