Steam folder - new install on Windows

jamesy505 · 2 Jan 2013 at 18:22

I done a fresh install of Windows 7 onto my C drive.
My Steam games are all stored on D drive, with the Steam program itself on C drive.

When I look at Steam, lots of the games I had installed previously are no longer installed.

I added a folder to look at my Steam directory in D drive, but only some games say Ready to play, and loads others are looking to be installed again.

Is there any way to fix this?

Thanks

caz32 · 2 Jan 2013 at 19:03

Recently had the same problem.

Had steam installed on my E: drive and my OS on C: [SSD]. Had to copy games from my external HDD to my E: drive, login to steam, start downloading said games but steam should pick up the files without having to download them, then when that was done I had to use steam mover program to put them on my SSD.

Before I done all that, I tried to start downloading one of the games to my SSD to see if steam would create the folders for me but all it did was put some .dll file and a steamlibary folder then inside that was a 'download' folder, so I tried making a 'common' folder and put my game in there but steam wouldn't pick the game up it kept trying to download the whole thing.

mp260767 · 2 Jan 2013 at 19:06

if you go into the steam folder on your D drive, then into steamapps, then common, do you see folders for all your games (and contents in the folders) or just the ones listed as ready to play ?

Utnac · 2 Jan 2013 at 19:16

Surely easier to just move the whole thing over to your D drive, the minut difference in speed with Steam on an SSD surely not worth all the hassle?

MeMeMeMe · 3 Jan 2013 at 00:46

Utnac said:
Surely easier to just move the whole thing over to your D drive, the minut difference in speed with Steam on an SSD surely not worth all the hassle?

+1

Murray · 3 Jan 2013 at 01:05

Just put steam on the D drive with the games and put the games you want to load faster on the SSD with SteamMover. You notice no difference with steam on the SSD.

linwelin · 3 Jan 2013 at 03:35

my whole steam folder is in D: so when i reinstall my OS i just start steam and it does what it needs to do, normally has to download something to work java i think ?

MorleySA · 3 Jan 2013 at 09:13

Utnac said:
Surely easier to just move the whole thing over to your D drive, the minut difference in speed with Steam on an SSD surely not worth all the hassle?

+1 if the game is actually installed on the HDD then having the steam program on a SSD makes no difference.

jamesy505 · 3 Jan 2013 at 11:07

For me putting Steam on the SSD was purely by default. I'll reinstall it where my games are and see if that helps.

Cheers

bledd · 3 Jan 2013 at 11:12

What I have is a 120gb ssd, I set it as S: drive, Steam is installed here.

After a format of C, I just set it as S again (for my own neatness) then I run steam exe from S: and all the games are there. Some will reinstall directx and c+ runtimes on their first run.