Steam Question

davewhite04

davewhite04

davewhite04

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Hey All,

I'm trying to find the option to change the default directory that I want to store my steam games in, I have about 50installed at the moment but want to leave them where they are and put any new ones in a different directory, is this possible even?

Cheers
 
The all need to be in one folder I think, though I heard about some software called MKsomething? that might be able to split it.
 
Everything installs to the Steam directory, I don't think there's a way to change that.

You could possibly do complicated things with simlinks or whatever they are called.
 
You can't split your Steamapps folder through the software, but you can move individual games.

If you have a search you can find some command line statements to do it, or there's several applications that can do it. GSM for example will take most the legwork out of it.

http://gsm.duncsweb.com/

krooton said:
The all need to be in one folder I think, though I heard about some software called MKsomething? that might be able to split it.
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mklink. :)
 
Thanks for getting back so quickly lads, it seems a bit faffy, but since I only have about 34GB left on my HDD that holds the games I'll have to do something before the Christmas sale :)

Thanks again :)
 
davewhite04 said:
Thanks for getting back so quickly lads, it seems a bit faffy, but since I only have about 34GB left on my HDD that holds the games I'll have to do something before the Christmas sale :)

Thanks again :)
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If it sounds a bit faffy, I'd definitely look at something like GSM.

It makes it a doddle. :)
gsm.jpg

Pick a game, pick a destination, click move. :)
 
Evilsod said:
*should dl the GSM purely for the save game management*

How well does it work? /offtopic
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It can be a bit fiddly to setup, but only if you want it to. You can run it after installing and just click backup if you want.

I've got it running on a weekly schedule, dumbing stuff to my dropbox and syncing it automatically. That said, that's not that hard to set up now, I just did it before some of the options where available. New updates are very regular at the moment. :)

If you've got a lot of games it definitely takes the effort out of manually locating save files big time, and new releases are supported pretty quickly.
 
I had the same issue and have just been using simlinks to manually move games that I don't play often. Hadn't heard of GSM before, looks useful so thanks!
 
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