Moving steam games ?

peahead · 2 Mar 2016 at 17:25

Hi

Basically i want to put a new 2tb hdd in my pc because the old one is only 500gb and its nearly full

it has all my games on it from steam /ubisoft ect it does not have windows 10 on there its just for games.

Can i just copy and paste the files from the old drive to the new one ?

Malevolence · 2 Mar 2016 at 17:29

Just install Steam to that drive and drag your files across.

peahead · 2 Mar 2016 at 17:31

Malevolence said:
Just install Steam to that drive and drag your files across.

Ok thanks that sounds simple enough

suenstar · 2 Mar 2016 at 17:34

Also if you want to divide your games up between the drives, you can leave Steam where it is and go into the Steam Settings > Downloads > Steam Library Folders to add additional locations where you can install your games from Steam.

matt_fsr · 2 Mar 2016 at 17:35

There's also a utility called 'SteamTool' which can do this for you as well.

Gives you a bit more flexibility, in that you can see what games are installed where, and move them to different drives etc.

Great if you've got an SSD with limited space for only the games you're currently playing a lot of!

peahead · 2 Mar 2016 at 17:37

Cheers guys will defo check out that steamtool Matt

SonniLombardi · 2 Mar 2016 at 18:40

suenstar said:
Also if you want to divide your games up between the drives, you can leave Steam where it is and go into the Steam Settings > Downloads > Steam Library Folders to add additional locations where you can install your games from Steam.

+1 this is what I do.

QlimaxUK · 2 Mar 2016 at 18:51

you can drag the steam folder as a whole or the steamapps folder for just games into a drive with steam already installed

I don't use any special programs to move steam as that's just more work for the same result

Gze · 2 Mar 2016 at 19:45

Just drag and drop!

koolpc · 11 Apr 2016 at 19:54

Is it that simple?