Steam and SSD's

Tavster · 28 Feb 2011 at 22:51

Hi all.

Just a question that i've been meaning to get the answer for since i've recently got myself a SSD.

Is it possible to install steam on the SSD along with my more frequently used games, and the rest of my games on my standard HD?

Cheers!

Gelly54 · 28 Feb 2011 at 22:57

Tavster said:
Hi all.

Just a question that i've been meaning to get the answer for since i've recently got myself a SSD.

Is it possible to install steam on the SSD along with my more frequently used games, and the rest of my games on my standard HD?

Cheers!

Good question, I have my steam on my storage hdd along with the games. Although I can't see how it would benefit you having steam on your SSD and games on hdd?

Tavster · 28 Feb 2011 at 22:58

Gelly54 said:
Good question, I have my steam on my storage hdd along with the games. Although I can't see how it would benefit you having steam on your SSD and games on hdd?

But in regards to the more frequent games I play being on the SSD just so they can be accessed faster etc and the less popular games I play just on the standard HDD so i'm not using up all of the space on the SSD.

Devrij · 28 Feb 2011 at 23:05

It is possible, there have been a few threads on the subject in the past so you could try searching for them if you don't get any answers. I believe it has to do with creating folder links, but can't remember how it's done. Mlinking or something I think?

Albino Eatpod · 28 Feb 2011 at 23:06

I use Steam Mover to do exactly this. I have my main Steam installation on my SSD, then use Steam Mover to transfer installations between there and a large storage drive. This works for almost all games, but HL2 and other Source games will need to be on the SSD, due to the way it's implemented. You can then run any game from Steam, and the SSD installed ones will load lightning fast.

It's an awesome little piece of software, and very easy to use.

Tavster · 28 Feb 2011 at 23:07

Devrij said:
It is possible, there have been a few threads on the subject in the past so you could try searching for them if you don't get any answers. I believe it has to do with creating folder links, but can't remember how it's done. Mlinking or something I think?

Thanks mate, i'll have a browse tonight

Tavster · 28 Feb 2011 at 23:09

Albino Eatpod said:
I use Steam Mover to do exactly this. I have my main Steam installation on my SSD, then use Steam Mover to transfer installations between there and a large storage drive. This works for almost all games, but HL2 and other Source games will need to be on the SSD, due to the way it's implemented. You can then run any game from Steam, and the SSD installed ones will load lightning fast.

It's an awesome little piece of software, and very easy to use.

Brilliant! Thanks a lot Eatpod, i'll get on it right away, I knew there would have been some sort of work around for it. What's the software like? Reliable and easy?

Albino Eatpod · 28 Feb 2011 at 23:12

Yes, I've never had any problems with it.

Evilsod · 28 Feb 2011 at 23:13

Steammover is pointless.

Just get Game Save Manager. It does the same thing and also lets you backup all your save games.

Tombo · 28 Feb 2011 at 23:17

They're both pointless, do it manually

Xelene · 28 Feb 2011 at 23:20

I use Folder2Junction

http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/topic30402.html

It's also useful as my media collection grows and I add disks.

Albino Eatpod · 28 Feb 2011 at 23:22

Evilsod said:
Steammover is pointless.

Just get Game Save Manager. It does the same thing and also lets you backup all your save games.

Nice, not heard of that one. The DropBox support looks tempting.

Evilsod · 28 Feb 2011 at 23:24

Tombo said:
They're both pointless, do it manually

Ok i'll race you at backing up all your saves

bigjimmyauk · 1 Mar 2011 at 02:43

Evilsod said:
Ok i'll race you at backing up all your saves

this made me lol.

orderoftheflame · 1 Mar 2011 at 07:25

I'm going to make a thread for sticking one of these days...

Supernaut91 · 1 Mar 2011 at 08:51

Just wish Valve could implement a much simpler easy to use option which could be embedded into the client.

linktoinsanity · 1 Mar 2011 at 09:07

There was a thread a few months ago detailing using mklink commands. I made a batch file initially, now I just shove all my games on the hard disk and only run Steam itself off the ssd, still using the mklink command.

Thread:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18044475&highlight=steam+folder

Evilsod · 1 Mar 2011 at 10:31

LinktoInsanity said:
There was a thread a few months ago detailing using mklink commands. I made a batch file initially, now I just shove all my games on the hard disk and only run Steam itself off the ssd, still using the mklink command.

Thread:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18044475&highlight=steam+folder

Does it actually improve steams startup speed and general running much?