Installing steam on ssd

BigRazer93

BigRazer93

BigRazer93

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Hello, I get my intel 80gb ssd on wesnesday, and I am a bit stuck. I want to put call of duty modern warfare 2 on my ssd, and will put a few more games on it but thats it. How would I go about this? For example; install 2 steam games on ssd and have 8gb left. I want to keep that 8gb free space, and install another steam game but on my F3?

Thanks.
 
If your asking what i think your asking. Its not possible to install Steam games to 2 different locations unfortunately.

I think the only way is to install Steam twice, once on each drive, and load up a different 1 when you want to play a game on that drive. Its a bit irritating but its doable.
 
Hmmm, thats quite stupid tbh. When installing steam games, you should get the option to install it on another drive, like you do with normal games.

So to get it to work, I would install steam twice, one on the ssd and the other on the Sammy F3. Then, to say i had cod6 on my ssd with no room to spare, I would have to load 2 steams and run a different game off my f3?
 
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If you install Steam you can select what drive you want it on during installation so you could put it on the SSD and all games you install would reside there. If you want to install Steam and have some games on one drive and some games on another drive then you need to follow Kenai's post.





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Yeah once you have a template setup for a script to do the links, it takes no time at all. Even then it's not that hard. You just have to be careful of syntax errors if you want to do it with lots of games in one go. Make sure you put quotes around directory or filenames which contain more than word.

Just install Steam to your SSD and then copy any existing installations to another folder on your other drive. I created a mirror of the steamapps folder, so inside that you will find the common directory plus the other ones and all the ncf files.

Most games just have one or two ncf files plus one directory that goes in the common directory or the folder titled as your Steam username. If you do a link for each of those from your steamapps directory on your SSD to your other steamapps folder then you are good to go.

Any future games downloaded via Steam will go straight on to your SSD. So you will need to create the links before you start the install process or install the games to your SSD then copy the game files to your secondary HDD and then create the symbolic links.
 
Thanks Link, could come in handy in the future. Since i moved to Windows 7 i moved Steam to D drvie so its got an entire 320gb drive to itself so i no longer need that now, but its good to know.
 
why dont you just keep all your steam games on the one drive? I just had to move my steam games across from my ssd because It was full up and performance wise the only differance is that the load screens actually appear now
 
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