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Applying a translation to a game you own takes a couple of minutes and is completely reversible. Here is every step, plus how to undo it.
Installing a translation
Applying a translation to a game you own takes a couple of minutes and is completely reversible. Here is every step, plus how to undo it.
Installing a translation is the moment Tranzio was built for, and it's been made deliberately boring: a three-step guided window that asks one question (where is your game?), shows you exactly what it's about to do, and then does it with a progress bar. Before it changes a single file it saves a restore point, so there is no step in this process you can't undo.
Open the installer
On any game page or card, press Install translation (or Choose version first if the game has several adaptations, then Install on the one you want). A window opens with the three steps above: Locate game, Download, and Done.
Tell Tranzio where the game is
A translation is installed into your copy of the game, so Tranzio needs to know where that copy lives. It checks the usual suspects automatically (Steam, Epic, and GOG installs) and marks the one it found as Detected; usually you just confirm it. If your copy lives somewhere unusual, choose Browse for folder manually and point at the game's folder.
Before anything downloads, the summary at the bottom repeats the team, the coverage, the download size, and the version. It's the "read the label" moment.
Download and apply
Press Continue and watch it go: a live progress bar with the percentage, the amount downloaded, your speed, the time remaining, and which file is currently being applied. Tranzio saves the restore point first, then patches the game in place. You can keep using the rest of the app while it runs; the Downloads page tracks it too.
Launch and switch language
When the window says installed, start the game normally (from Steam, your desktop, wherever you always start it). Most games pick the new language automatically; some list it in their own options menu, so if you still see the original language, look there first.
Finding your game folder
Pointing at the right folder is the only part of an install that ever needs your judgement, so it's worth a closer look. Tranzio scans the launchers it can see and lists what each one reports, with your Steam and Epic libraries on the left and their games on the right. The game you're translating floats to the top of the list with a This game tag, and the folder path under each row is the exact directory the patch will be written into.
Detected libraries
If the game isn't in the list (a portable copy, a second drive, a launcher Tranzio doesn't read), use Browse folders and point at the game's root folder, the one that holds its executable. Once you've picked it, the summary strip confirms it and the install can start.
Reading the progress screen
The Download step runs on its own and reports everything as it goes. There's nothing to do here except watch, or close the window and let it finish in the background.
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| Readout | What it's telling you |
|---|---|
| Speed | Live transfer rate. On a free account this is capped, which is why a big pack takes longer than your connection suggests. |
| Time left | An estimate from the last few seconds of speed, so it settles down after the first moments and moves around on unstable Wi-Fi. |
| Files | How many of the pack's files have been written. A pack is many files, not one big blob, which is what makes updates small later. |
| The bottom line | The file being written right now. When it stops changing for a long time, something is stuck and cancelling is safe. |
Games that check their own files
Some games are built to verify every content file they load and quietly ignore anything that doesn't carry the right marker. On those, a translation that is completely correct still changes nothing, and there is no message anywhere to tell you why: the game simply reads its own files and skips yours. Sifu is one of them.
Tranzio handles this for you. When it sees that a game checks its files, it installs the marker alongside the translation so the game accepts it, and takes it away again when you undo the install. There is nothing to turn on and nothing to notice, and a game that does no checking is left exactly as it was.
Undoing an install
Every install saves a restore point: a copy of every original file the patch replaced. To go back, open the game from your library and choose Revert to original. The game returns to exactly its pre-translation state, byte for byte. Your progress and save files are never affected in either direction; they live in a different place entirely and Tranzio doesn't go there.
214 original files held in the restore point
Save files never touched in either direction, they live elsewhere
Online games with anti-cheat. Strict anti-cheat systems can object to any modified game files, translations included. Don't play online rounds of such games with a translation installed; single-player and offline modes are safe. If you're about to jump into ranked matches, revert first. It's one click each way.
Installing several at once
Free accounts install one translation at a time, which is fine for most evenings. With Pro you can queue several and let them download together, manage their order, and pause the lot. All of that lives on the Downloads page.
Once installed, translations aren't frozen: teams keep improving them, and Tranzio tells you when a newer version is available. That flow has its own page, Keeping translations up to date.