Steam..

[xubidoo]

Quick question about Steam.

Is it possible to pick where to install the games ,or can they only install to drive C:
and if so how to do it?

as im running out of room due to only having a 50gb Windows partition,i dont want to resize my partitions as it would mean a hell of a lot of work having to move large amounts of stuff around.

[tigger]

You can install steam to whatever partition you like.Mines on a seperate drive as its 92gb at the moment.

[Studabaker]

right if u want to move where steam is installed to, just move the steamapps folder to a backup location, re-install steam in your second partition, start and exit steam, then move your backed up steamapps in there, start steam again and your games should work, i've done this to backup and restore my steam a hundred times (maily COD4 coz it's so damn huge). steam will even take care of checking for game install integrity and configuring PB again, etc.

[xubidoo]

thanks guys ,will give it a try.

Am down to 5gb on Windows partition atm ,so i desp need to move steam


EDIT: Did as mentioned above and it worked a treat ,thanks guys

[qubit]

Originally Posted by Studabaker

right if u want to move where steam is installed to, just move the steamapps folder to a backup location, re-install steam in your second partition, start and exit steam, then move your backed up steamapps in there, start steam again and your games should work, i've done this to backup and restore my steam a hundred times (maily COD4 coz it's so damn huge). steam will even take care of checking for game install integrity and configuring PB again, etc.

Don't you have to alse delete the clientregistry.blob file the Steam folder, so that it rebuilds it properly? <not sure>

[Studabaker]

Originally Posted by qubit

Don't you have to alse delete the clientregistry.blob file the Steam folder, so that it rebuilds it properly? <not sure>

you don't keep your original steam folder, only the steamapps folder. everything else is done fresh.

[Mussels]

Originally Posted by qubit

Don't you have to alse delete the clientregistry.blob file the Steam folder, so that it rebuilds it properly? <not sure>

i just cut and pasted my steam to my D: drive, and updated the shortcut to the exe.

I havent installed steam in ages, i just move it to new OS's

[alexp999]

Will the game run without steam then??

[Mussels]

Originally Posted by alexp999

Will the game run without steam then??

no. its just that steam looks for the games within the steam folder itself, it doesnt use external links (so you can move the entire steam folder from drive to drive, and it still works)

[qubit]

Originally Posted by Mussels

i just cut and pasted my steam to my D: drive, and updated the shortcut to the exe.

I havent installed steam in ages, i just move it to new OS's

I think I tried that once and it didn't quite work right, but it was so long ago, that I can't remember clearly; I think some registry entries need to be made. It could also be that some games are more fussy about being moved like that.

[Studabaker]

COD4 will run without Steam, I always create a shortcut to COD4MP with the --nosteam switch after I have used Steam to configure it. I don't know which games besides COD4 have a similar switch though.