How to move Uplay from C drive?

wunkley · 29 Jan 2013 at 11:48

Hi all

Quick question - currently downloading Assassins Creed 3 thanks to the lovely free key offer from Talon1973.

But, I had Uplay installed on my C drive for Far Cry 3 already, but I got far cry 3 on disc and it gave me the option to install that on another drive, which I did.

Didn't think to check for AC 3 and it's now halfway through downloading 15 gigs into the uplay folder - on my C drive - which is only a 60 Gb SSD, and doesn't have the room (think I will have only 1GB space left once this downloads!)

How do I move it to another drive? If I unistall Uplay and reinstall it on another drive, will I lose my AC 3 download? I really don't want to have to download a 15GB game again? Any ideas?

Myshra · 29 Jan 2013 at 11:57

You need an NTFS junction. I use steammover (works with any directory, not just steam games) but there are many others. This will basically copy items from one directory to another of your choosing, delete the contents of the original then make the OS believe that the original directory now points to your new destination on the other drive.

wunkley · 29 Jan 2013 at 12:02

Thanks bud. I've used a program similar in the past I think, but it's been a while. The download speed for AC 3 has slowed to a crawl now, so I might bite the bullet and uninstall uplay from my c drive and reinstall it on another and start again.
Will that work? Just done a quick search and there seems to be very sketchy info out there about uplay being hard coded to your c drive!?

Mullins · 29 Jan 2013 at 12:04

When you run the installer for AC3 it will give you the option of where to install the game, so it should only use the C drive as the download point for the installer.

wunkley · 29 Jan 2013 at 12:07

Mullins said:
When you run the installer for AC3 it will give you the option of where to install the game, so it should only use the C drive as the download point for the installer.

Ah, so will be similar to how it was for far cry 3 (on disk) then? That makes sense. Still might unistall uplay though and whack on another drive, as my 60GB C drive is ever diminishing and it stresses me out

TALON1973 · 29 Jan 2013 at 13:02

What speed internet you got mate ? ive only got 7.5mb ( using wireless ) but i was downloading the game last night at 900kb/s .. took me 5 hrs. let in on when i went to bed and it was up and ready when i woke up