Install them all at once?

[Donald Ramp]

It gives you all 3 games, but does you require to install them all at once? Or you can install them one by one?

[funewchie]

Considering the game is about 120GB to install, it's a fair bet they all are installed.

[budisourdog]

Yes it unfortunately seems to install all 3 at once, which is convenient if you're gonna sit down and play a marathon run for a month, but like I have a 500gb drive, even (only) 8 games installed seems to push it these days. You can put it on an external in a new library folder, but if you ever launch steam without the external it'll (immediately) effectively wipe it + the redistributables and will you have to re-add the library folder and manually verify your game files and then download the redistributables again.

[WhateverWorks]

Originally posted by budisourdog:

Yes it unfortunately seems to install all 3 at once, which is convenient if you're gonna sit down and play a marathon run for a month, but like I have a 500gb drive, even (only) 8 games installed seems to push it these days. You can put it on an external in a new library folder, but if you ever launch steam without the external it'll (immediately) effectively wipe it + the redistributables and will you have to re-add the library folder and manually verify your game files and then download the redistributables again.

This isn't even remotely true. You're spreading nonsense. I have ALL of my steam games installed to a 2tb external m2 drive, and it gets unplugged daily as I take my computer to work but not the m2 drive. It doesn't break anything, doesn't remove redistributables or any of that. I never have to re-verify anything. I just plug the drive in and it picks up the games.

[wkitty42]

Originally posted by WhateverWorks:

Originally posted by budisourdog:

[...] You can put it on an external in a new library folder, but if you ever launch steam without the external it'll (immediately) effectively wipe it + the redistributables and will you have to re-add the library folder and manually verify your game files and then download the redistributables again.

This isn't even remotely true. You're spreading nonsense. I have ALL of my steam games installed to a 2tb external m2 drive, and it gets unplugged daily as I take my computer to work but not the m2 drive. It doesn't break anything, doesn't remove redistributables or any of that. I never have to re-verify anything. I just plug the drive in and it picks up the games.

reread what they wrote... specifically "if you ever launch steam WITHOUT the external plugged in [...]" so the question is, are you launching steam while you are at work?

[WhateverWorks]

Originally posted by wkitty42:

Originally posted by WhateverWorks:

This isn't even remotely true. You're spreading nonsense. I have ALL of my steam games installed to a 2tb external m2 drive, and it gets unplugged daily as I take my computer to work but not the m2 drive. It doesn't break anything, doesn't remove redistributables or any of that. I never have to re-verify anything. I just plug the drive in and it picks up the games.

reread what they wrote... specifically "if you ever launch steam WITHOUT the external plugged in [...]" so the question is, are you launching steam while you are at work?

Steam automatically runs upon booting for me, so yeah. Again what they're saying is just untrue. I unplug my external daily, but steam keeps running regardless. Don't gotta do anything to play my games except plug the external back in.

[Sinophile]

Originally posted by budisourdog:

Yes it unfortunately seems to install all 3 at once, which is convenient if you're gonna sit down and play a marathon run for a month, but like I have a 500gb drive, even (only) 8 games installed seems to push it these days. You can put it on an external in a new library folder, but if you ever launch steam without the external it'll (immediately) effectively wipe it + the redistributables and will you have to re-add the library folder and manually verify your game files and then download the redistributables again.

You could buy a 1 terabyte drive for under 100 bucks. Heck, you could even install the game on a $20 USB stick.

[SpaceWombat]

Unfortunately yes. However assuming you have enough space for the initial install:

you can use the mod manager to launch the game executables directly. Since it bypasses the launcher you can temporarily delete ( or better yet backup on a higher volume drive ) whichever games you aren't actively playing then paste them back whenever you're ready.

[WhateverWorks]

Originally posted by Sinophile:

You could buy a 1 terabyte drive for under 100 bucks. Heck, you could even install the game on a $20 USB stick.

FR, I got a 2TB M2 drive, put it in an external enclosure, and installed the majority of my library to it. Games run perfectly fine, and they would just as well from a USB 3.0 stick. The 2Tb drive was $130 a year ago.