Transfer of games to different hard drive without re-installing

[BaDBoY_uK]

I had a bit of a "I think therefore I am" moment last night

I have a WD 1.5TB HD and a Samsung Spinpoint. When I benchmarked them, the WD won and gave me around 130MB/s linear read while the Samsung gave me around 70MB/s. I always wondered why my games took a while to load despite have a decant PC

So, I thought "why not move my installed games across to a WD partition, move the existing videos across and then rename the drive path/letter"? So I did and it worked. All my games play as normal. Even my half-downloaded copy of BC2 continued with EADM. Steam games work and now games load up quicker.

Brucy bonus. Maybe I was just lucky.



Anyone had similar experiences of this? Bad?

Also, I have just bought an Intel 80-M SSD. I am not planning on moving my OS across as I have a 32GB Corsiar Xtreme. But, I imagine I have install steam/BC2/other game where access is important over. Boo

Okay, sorry long thread

 

[dirk_diggler]

I have done this for years
Some games I have had installed since 2001 and has survived several PC's
Just extract reg keys , merge then back in later and all is well

Sometimes reg keys are needed due to them holding which version of the game you have
so if they arnt there updating doesnt work

 

[El_MUERkO]

I have done this for years
Some games I have had installed since 2001 and has survived several PC's
Just extract reg keys , merge then back in later and all is well

Sometimes reg keys are needed due to them holding which version of the game you have
so if they arnt there updating doesnt work

anywhere that shows how to do this? or maybe a tool for it?

i've got a lot of games installed and an SSD on the way

 

[BaDBoY_uK]

anywhere that shows how to do this? or maybe a tool for it?

i've got a lot of games installed and an SSD on the way

I would be interested in this also. I have an Intel 80gb SSD on the way just for games. I would love not to install them all again. Steam is ok. GTA4, Farcry etc

Cheers