Steam Games Across 2 Drives

[Puppetmaster]

I'm considering buying an ssd and was wondering whether its possible to have steam games split across drives.

Eg have most of the games installed on a mechanical hdd but say have one or two i play a lot on the ssd for faster loading. Is there anyway of doing this?

 

[cHk4]

I'm considering buying an ssd and was wondering whether its possible to have steam games split across drives.

Eg have most of the games installed on a mechanical hdd but say have one or two i play a lot on the ssd for faster loading. Is there anyway of doing this?

Yes mate let me try and find the post. Give me a min and I'll edit.

Ok more and more people seem to be getting SSD hard drives. If you have a SSD hard drive you know how quick these bad boys fill up. Also if you are running your steam folder from an external drive and also fraps to an external drive this can cause big issues due to speed. So what you can do... You can have steam installed on an external directory and the games you play keep on your local hard drive. So for example below, I play MW2 and want faster loading speeds due to my SSD.. I would cut and paste my MW2 folder from my Steam\Steamapps\common directory to my c:\. Now don't re create the folder in your steam folder. If you have done it wrong and end up with a MW2 folder in both your steam directory and your C:\ delete the one in your steam directory.

Now you want to go start>run and then type CMD (if your running vista/win 7 you will need to run as admin) now in dos you would type the below. Now as there are lots of spaces you will need the " kept in.

mklink /D "E:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\call of duty modern warfare 2" "C:\call of duty modern warfare 2"

Now this will create a folder in the steam directory referencing your folder on your harddrive . When steam goes to open up COD it will open it up from your local drive so if you have a SSD or a 10,000RPM + HDD this will be better speeds than running it of your external!

Hope this makes sense!

Should like like the below - Steam will look no different, in your Steam directory you will have the folders with the arrow and on your C drive it should be normal folders

I can't take credit ( although that is my post on another forum) someone on here told me how to do it.

Hope this helps.

 

[MeMeMeMe]

There are a couple of programs that give you a way to make those links without having to type manually at a command prompt.
Junction Link Magic A simple program for viewing the symbolic links already on your system, and making new ones. Use the same process as described above, but instead of opening the command prompt, use this program.

Link Shell Extension: This one has the ability to bypass most of the instructions above, I think. You just choose a folder, and it copies the files to the target location, then creates the link for them. I haven't used it though, so make sure you follow the instructions.

 

[silversurfer]

Sounds useful if it could be automatic.

Does anyone remember off hand where I should place the rockstar saves for GTA4 on win7 after I reinstall windows/steam