Where to put/install Steam? (Preferences)

[The_Arbiter]

Put in a new boot drive yesterday, everything is good, except Steam. Steam puts anything anywhere it feels like. Combined with mods it's a bit of a pita. This is in regards to save files and config files, they are in multiple directories depending on games. With cloud sync being a great idea, not all games utilise this.

I have a boot drive and other drives, with a dedicated games drive like most.

So what's your preference to this install? Do you do anything different, or have 3rd party software to backup saves?

PCgamingwiki has a decent list of games with Steam information for settings and directories as mentioned above.

 

[The_Arbiter]

Not sure of your question.

Yeah badly worded, i'll update.

No it doesn't. Steam installs games to where you tell it to put them

I have my steam games installed on three different drives (NVMe, SSD & HHD)

Unfortunately my saved games and maybe some game settings it appears, are scattered around. I have cloud sync enabled but when i checked previous to new boot drive install very few games utilised this.

For me configuration files are more valuable than game's executable files.

 

[The_Arbiter]

Yes i agree the save game & settings files are scattered all over the place.

Do you overcome this anyway at all?
I guess windows image/ 3rd party windows backup software is the most basic way.

 

[The_Arbiter]

GameSave Manager is a great save backup program

Looks alright, thanks!

 

[The_Arbiter]

Gamesave manager is what I use between windows installs too. It has a giant list of nearly every game and where it keeps its save files and configs and backs them up.

Oh, it also backs up configs! That i didn't know, even better.