Quick steam install question

liamcrane · 15 Jan 2012 at 09:39

Hi guys

Got a really quick question regarding installing steam on my new machine. I have two 64gb SSD's i am using 1 for my OS and applications and the other 1 for my games. Would i be better off installing steam on the SSD with my OS and then pointing the steam apps folder to be SSD with my games on? (if thats actually possible) or would i be better off just installing steam itself on my gaming ssd? Looking at the same idea for origin as well really.

Hope you can help

Liam

orderoftheflame · 15 Jan 2012 at 09:48

The general consensus is to stick steam on a large HDD, then move individual games to the SSD that you want the fast loading on/while you play them using a tool like GameSave Manager or Steam Mover.

You can do it manually as well if you want, there's a section in the FAQ that covers your options.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18249392

liamcrane · 15 Jan 2012 at 09:53

Sweet never knew about this thanks for the link matey!

liamcrane · 15 Jan 2012 at 13:30

Just one more quick thing, when you run the mklink command will the game still be stored on 2 hard drives so to speak? Or can i delete say the game folder for gta in the steam folder on my OS ssd as i have a copy of it now on a different ssd if you see what i mean?

thanks again

liamcrane · 17 Jan 2012 at 19:20

Would someone mind lending me a hand im going crazy lol I have just installed steam to my c drive which is an ssd, i have my other ssd installed now which is drive H. I backed up my steam apps folder from my old hard drive so i have copied my gta iv folder and placed it on my new ssd drive H under H:\steam games\gta iv. I went into the steam folder installed on my C drive and had to manually add the folder "common" and "gta iv" to the directory "C:\Steam\SteamApps\common\gta iv" as i had not installed anything for it to appear before. Went to the command line and typed

mklink /J "C:\Steam\SteamApps\common\gta iv" "H:\steam games\gta iv

I checked out the directory "C:\Steam\SteamApps\common\gta iv" had a shortcut which it did but it would not let me open the folder gta iv for some reason dont know if thats normal or not. Anyway i loaded up steam went to install GTA IV as its not actually installed yet and it just started downloading it again and i have no idea why.

Any ideas? Also one thing i did notice was that my c drive seemed to lose 15gb of space even tho the gta files were on the other ssd