Steam - There is a way to put games on different drives.

SkeeterUK · 25 Mar 2012 at 11:17

http://stefanjones.ca/steam/

Found this for snowdog last week. Said it did the job for moving civ 5 on to his ssd and updates fine and all that.

Just incase ppl were looking for a way to move games from a near full drive or want it on a faster drive can do so now.

Duno how reliable it is mind you but according to snowy it worked great with civ 5.

SkeeterUK · 25 Mar 2012 at 18:11

So what was the point of posting that zo1d lol. Trolling much?

Some people might not have known about this hence the post.

Nanostronghold · 25 Mar 2012 at 18:17

Ahh that's cool. At first I thought you were asking and I realised that i was only aware of you being able to move your "steam folder" which presumably means 'Move all your games' It's nice to know that's an option

Less nice to know it's not included in Steam by default

Kosmiche · 25 Mar 2012 at 18:20

Does that let you have steam games on two different drives simultaneously?

I'm running out of disk space and if it can do that, then that would be handy.

Nanostronghold · 25 Mar 2012 at 18:21

Yeah i think that's what it's for.

Kenai · 25 Mar 2012 at 18:22

You've been able to do this manually for years and GameSaveManager has been able to do it for a very long time too.

lrlcr · 25 Mar 2012 at 18:23

Why bother, just do it with a command prompt and:

mklink /D "location inc. folder name (steam directory)" "target(where you've moved the steam games to)"

yhack · 25 Mar 2012 at 18:26

Can do it with cmd easily, tutorial here:

http://tutden.com/tutorials/windows/move-steam-games-to-another-hard-drive/

CaptainRAVE · 25 Mar 2012 at 18:32

All in the steam FAQ that used to be around here.

orderoftheflame · 25 Mar 2012 at 18:34

I use GameSaveManager. There's a section on this in the Steam FAQ.

CaptainRAVE · 25 Mar 2012 at 18:35

orderoftheflame said:
I use GameSaveManager. There's a section on this in the Steam FAQ.

Exactly what I use too

kmetek · 25 Mar 2012 at 20:20

remove steam client
move whole dir to other drive
reinstall steam client
done

ThunderLicker · 25 Mar 2012 at 21:16

I always used steam mover for transferring games between drives.

snowdog · 28 Mar 2012 at 21:19

kmetek said:
remove steam client
move whole dir to other drive
reinstall steam client
done

That's not the issue.

I have 200+ gb of games on steam.
I want ONE OR TWO games on my SSD (only 128gb) for faster loading etc...

This tool is perfect for that, no command lines, no anything, simply launch tool, select game to move, select folder to move, click, done.

Civ5 on my ssd.
Rest of games on my O: drive.

Does exactly the same as command line thing, but in a gui...