Simple steam question

MeatLoaf · 1 Nov 2012 at 23:22

Ive just trimmed down my steam install to around 80Gb and moved it accross to a 120Gb SSD.

Ive got all the games i play at the moment installed with about 30Gb free ready for black ops 2 when it arrives.

Now for the question. Currently the steam SSD is drive F: with all the games on it. Id like to reinstall a few others like batman/doom3 and a few others. Is there a way to tell the steam client to install certain games to a different drive? So i can keep the most played games on the SSD, and the less played ones on a seperate mechanical drive?

MarshSilverback · 1 Nov 2012 at 23:28

I don't think you can split the Steam games cache tbh mate.

Ask on the steampowered forums, but I think you SOOL here, I'm afraid!

Would be a good option to implement though...

Space Monkey · 1 Nov 2012 at 23:57

Think this might help?

http://www.traynier.com/software/steammover

trentlad · 2 Nov 2012 at 00:03

So now that you've made the move to an SSD, are you actually noticing such a difference in load times that justifies the hassle of splitting your games this way?

Are we talking 10 seconds or absolutely immediate?

MeMeMeMe · 2 Nov 2012 at 01:01

trentlad asks a good question. I have wondered if its worth the effort too.

macca672 · 2 Nov 2012 at 01:41

stooeh · 2 Nov 2012 at 03:48

The beta version of steam lets you install to different drives - I haven't tried it myself though.

rubin1961 · 2 Nov 2012 at 06:53

i use steam mover and never had problems

Howitzer · 2 Nov 2012 at 09:35

I keep steam on my mechanical drive and just move 2 or 3 games to the SSD and use a jump to fool steam into thinking they're in the right folder

Lots of games just aren't worth it, I just do it with games that have long load times such as the later Total War titles. Black Ops aswell, quick enough so I never miss the start of a match!

PapaLazaru · 2 Nov 2012 at 09:56

trentlad said:
So now that you've made the move to an SSD, are you actually noticing such a difference in load times that justifies the hassle of splitting your games this way?

Are we talking 10 seconds or absolutely immediate?

MeMeMeMe said:
trentlad asks a good question. I have wondered if its worth the effort too.

Let's use BF3 for instance. Mechanical drives can take 30 seconds plus to load up a map. My SSD loads a level in less than 7.

rhysduck · 2 Nov 2012 at 10:07

Use mklink /j, works perfectly on my machine, I have my Steam install folder on my RAID drives but a few games are on my SSD.

CreateNPlay · 2 Nov 2012 at 10:14

What rhys said, mklink works wonders

chid76 · 2 Nov 2012 at 11:25

trentlad said:
So now that you've made the move to an SSD, are you actually noticing such a difference in load times that justifies the hassle of splitting your games this way?

Are we talking 10 seconds or absolutely immediate?

I don't think it's worth putting all games on an ssd, just the ones that it will make a difference with. I have a 120gb ssd and have a few select games on there like BF3, Skyrim, Guild Wars 2, ones where it will make a difference because of needing quick load times between maps or because of the amount of loading in game from swapping from location to location.
No point in installing things like Peggle on an ssd in my opinion