Help With Steam Please?

Stuff · 7 Nov 2009 at 22:58

Hey guys,

Set up my new computer on Monday; primary drive is my 64Gb SSD, and 500Gb HDD for general storage. Now, I've installed Windows and Steam on the SSD, but my games are taking up a rather large chunk of the drive... And by that, I mean I've got 4Gb left :/

Is it possible to install/move steam games between drives/partitions, or does it have to be on the drive you installed Steam on?

Surely there must be a way around this?

Stuff · 8 Nov 2009 at 00:10

Thanks for the advice guys, but a bit confused... I copied the whole steam folder from 'My Programs' on C drive (SSD) to E Drive (HDD). I logged out and closed steam, then clicked on the steam icon on E drive, and it boots up and everything fine, but doesn't give me any sort of message about reinstalling Steam...

I'd guess that it was going from C drive for some reason :/ Hulp?

Stuff · 8 Nov 2009 at 00:19

Reza86 said:
Well if it doesn't ask you anything and loads up fine and your games work then everything should be ok.

Kenai said:
Sounds fine, unless you managed to just create a load of shortcutss (can't imagine so, unless it copied like 50GB in 30 seconds) then it should be running off of E: if that's where you're running the exe from.

It will likely only want an update/reinstall prompt if you move OS or something.

Nope, it was a 30Gb transfer and took about 6 minutes. It seems to be alright, but what I thought was to back-up all the games (via Steam Backup) to the HDD, then uninstall and I have copies if it doesn't work after I clear the SSD

Stuff · 8 Nov 2009 at 00:43

Kenai said:
Well, Steam is entirely portable, i've moved it between 2 different drives and 3 different operating system installs and the most its ever wanted to do was a quick update and then everything ran fine.

It should be ok.

Hm, that is good. I assumed it would be governed by registry settings and not as flexable as you say!