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The way it works is one .acf file and often several .manifest files for each game. The .acf file contains some info but most importantly lists the .manifest files needed by the game, which Steam reads to know what game files to download or to verify integrity of game cache. Us, pirates, we have to use the acf+manifest files with TINcft and it does the same thing Steam does for legit owners when they "verify integrity of game cache", it basically detects invalid or missing files. Some members like to share .sfv files (to be used with QuickSFV and such) which, in essence, do the same thing; the difference is that these files can be created by anyone, on a game installation that isn't 100% valid and .manifest files are created by Steam devs and guarantee you a 100% valid game installation.
Note that, with TINcft, you can't download stuff for free, unless it IS free, like redistributable packages included in a game for example (e.g. DirectX). But if you own games you can login with your Steam account through TINcft and download them from there, which is handy because you can choose to only download parts of a game, like a DLC for instance to upload and share afterwards!

So why do you need TINcft and acf+manifest files? Well I already kind of said it, most importantly, it guarantees you a 100% valid game installation. No more confusion with update numbers/versions and wondering if you installed everything properly, in the right order, without missing anything, etc... No more running into any crash/random problems caused by invalid or missing files, etc... And on top of that you can "clean junk files", which are files that are not listed in the .manifest files and that the game doesn't need. TINcft is pretty user friendly and anyone can use it but beware of "list junk" vs "clean junk" and "validate" vs "validate/correct" because "clean junk" and "validate/correct" will delete files while "list junk" and "validate" will only list them in the log. It is good practice to first use "list junk" and check in the log what will be deleted, then use "clean junk" and finally "validate", I personally never use "validate/correct".

Now if you want to know which .manifest files a games uses and more info, this is a useful website: [[Please login to see this link.]]
Just enter the name of the game or its appid in the search bar, click the appid and go to the "Depots" tab. Here is for example csgo: [[Please login to see this link.]]
Now it's time to use common sense and see that you will need "DEPOTID" 732 and 731. You'll need to click on each depot ID you need, in our example you will get the following:

Depot ID 732
Manifest ID 5643163177646653968

Depot ID 731
Manifest ID 636954112709914074

So the .manifest files for csgo are: "732_5643163177646653968.manifest" and "731_636954112709914074.manifest" (at the time I wrote this, because the name will change with each update! Btw you can see how a .manifest file was named before by going in the "History" tab of the depot ID page, to know how many updates you missed or idk lol I'm just trying to write everything I know!)

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Hi Do we have any steps how to use this files and what this do ?? sorry just newbie .. thanks