How do you choose which hard drive steam installs games onto?

EdwardTeach · 28 Apr 2010 at 23:58

I dont want it to install games onto my C drive as it is an 80gb ssd.

the steam app itself is on my D drive - will steam automatically download games there?

i cant seem to find an option to specify the download location.

trentlad · 29 Apr 2010 at 00:03

EdwardTeach said:
I dont want it to install games onto my C drive as it is an 80gb ssd.

the steam app itself is on my D drive - will steam automatically download games there?

i cant seem to find an option to specify the download location.

Steam should inherently install your games in the steam application folder. So if you install Steam on your D drive, the games will install on that drive too.

That's how I have mine setup; so irrespective of how many times I reinstall my OS, I don't have to repeatedly download all my games.

EdwardTeach · 29 Apr 2010 at 00:10

thanks

oli356 · 29 Apr 2010 at 07:55

I'm guessing then there's no way you can have steam installed to partition C drive and have a few games on C but then install others on another partition of a hdd?

Reason being I obviously made partition C to small

though I guess I could try and make it bigger - would have to find a partition manager as the one on windows 7 won't work for that

D-Ranged · 29 Apr 2010 at 10:44

trentlad said:
Steam should inherently install your games in the steam application folder. So if you install Steam on your D drive, the games will install on that drive too.

That's how I have mine setup; so irrespective of how many times I reinstall my OS, I don't have to repeatedly download all my games.

Yep thats right.

I have Steam installed on my Games hard drive.

Tefal · 29 Apr 2010 at 10:49

oli356 said:
I'm guessing then there's no way you can have steam installed to partition C drive and have a few games on C but then install others on another partition of a hdd?

Reason being I obviously made partition C to small
though I guess I could try and make it bigger - would have to find a partition manager as the one on windows 7 won't work for that

yes you can.

search on here for steam on multiple drives, it's fairly easy and doesn't need any other programs.

mlink command I think you use

oli356 · 29 Apr 2010 at 10:59

Tefal said:
yes you can.

search on here for steam on multiple drives, it's fairly easy and doesn't need any other programs.

mlink command I think you use

Ok good good

Ill have a search now,
thxs

zo1d · 29 Apr 2010 at 14:09

Tefal said:
yes you can.

search on here for steam on multiple drives, it's fairly easy and doesn't need any other programs.

mlink command I think you use

The mlink command can be used to create a Symbolic link, which for example could be used to a allow a steam game to run from another location, basically after creating a symbolic link (supported in vista and win7) the OS will redirect the application to the location where you have copied the data to. I'm currently using a symbolic link I created to redirect steam to a game I copied onto my SSD.

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/howtos/howto_master_your_file_system_mklink

Le_Petit_Lapin · 29 Apr 2010 at 14:58

Mine go on E:. C: is for Windows and Drivers only. D: is work stuff. F: Music. J: Download folder.