Transferring from external ssd to pc ssd

[V00D00STEVE]

I was curious if I pre load the game on an external ssd if I could transfer it to my desktop internal ssd without problems.

[RotGoblin]

You can transfer it... but probably not without problems.

I've recently just done this for a few PC games (installation of a new SSD) and I ended up having to redownload them anyway because they had cripplingly bad load times.

[Kashra Fall]

Nothing is stopping you from doing it, just verify the game before trying to launch it on the new device. Any missing/corrupted files will be redownloaded/fixed.

[V00D00STEVE]

I've done it with other games with no problem, but I can boot games off my external and desktop so it's just a matter of making the pathway, just not sure if it works with preloads

[V00D00STEVE]

Well the biggest problem is how slow my internet is, so I'm sending my laptop to my brother's with my external so he can download it for me then, I want to transfer it from my external to my desktop pc when I get it home

[RotGoblin]

Originally posted by V00D00STEVE:

Well the biggest problem is how slow my internet is, so I'm sending my laptop to my brother's with my external so he can download it for me then, I want to transfer it from my external to my desktop pc when I get it home

Yeah it can definitely work, it's just not guaranteed to work perfectly.

[V00D00STEVE]

Fair enough, thanks lads!

[Tefty]

Errr... This is simple and done many times.

>Just download on the laptop first (do not setup a game library on the SSD and download straight to it in case of USB blip)
> Copy the game folder after download and place on the SSD
> Once copied successfully then delete the game from the laptop via the steam library uninstall
> Copy folder from SSD to your steam library folder location and then go to steam and preload/install the game
> Files will do a quick integrity check and then install
> After install run another integrity check for good measure then delete from external SSD.
> Finally cross fingers for no 25gb day 1 patch.

[RotGoblin]

Originally posted by Tefty:

Finally cross fingers for no 25gb day 1 patch.

Physical copies have been in stores for a little while.. It's 100% going to have a sizeable day one patch.

[ominumi]

Originally posted by Tefty:

Errr... This is simple and done many times.

>Just download on the laptop first (do not setup a game library on the SSD and download straight to it in case of USB blip)
> Copy the game folder after download and place on the SSD
> Once copied successfully then delete the game from the laptop via the steam library uninstall
> Copy folder from SSD to your steam library folder location and then go to steam and preload/install the game
> Files will do a quick integrity check and then install
> After install run another integrity check for good measure then delete from external SSD.
> Finally cross fingers for no 25gb day 1 patch.

It's already confirm there's going to be a Day 1 patch. 25GB is a bit excessive. Nothing is that large unless there's new texture involve.

[Cadaver]

Originally posted by V00D00STEVE:

Well the biggest problem is how slow my internet is, so I'm sending my laptop to my brother's with my external so he can download it for me then, I want to transfer it from my external to my desktop pc when I get it home

Steam supports filesharing locally for gamedownloads

[UnhappyCLOWN]

Originally posted by V00D00STEVE:

Well the biggest problem is how slow my internet is, so I'm sending my laptop to my brother's with my external so he can download it for me then, I want to transfer it from my external to my desktop pc when I get it home

Ok, well the process is more difficult to transfer the pre-load data. But here is what I recommend. Have your brother pre-load it on your laptop. When the game releases finish the update so the game is fully installed on your laptop. Then you can move the files from your laptop to your main PC SSD. Once all the game files are copied on your SSD, have Steam install the game to that drive. It will see that the game files are already there, check them, and then say the game is installed without downloading it. If you try the same thing with just the pre-loaded files it'll just re-download everything.

[BEEP!]

I've done something similar when my house internet was only 250kbs in best conditions but my phone internet was 10mbs of download speed, like my house internet was so bad it took me a week of continues downloading to download Red Dead2 at launch.
So when i got my phone with unlimited high speed I downloaded my clean game files online on my phone in parts and I would transfer them over to my PC through USB into steam that's how I downloaded all my game's I bought on steam for like the last 7years until a year ago when Spectrum finally built lines on my road.
Now I download 25-50GB game's in minutes.

[V00D00STEVE]

Originally posted by UnhappyCLOWN:

Originally posted by V00D00STEVE:

Well the biggest problem is how slow my internet is, so I'm sending my laptop to my brother's with my external so he can download it for me then, I want to transfer it from my external to my desktop pc when I get it home

Ok, well the process is more difficult to transfer the pre-load data. But here is what I recommend. Have your brother pre-load it on your laptop. When the game releases finish the update so the game is fully installed on your laptop. Then you can move the files from your laptop to your main PC SSD. Once all the game files are copied on your SSD, have Steam install the game to that drive. It will see that the game files are already there, check them, and then say the game is installed without downloading it. If you try the same thing with just the pre-loaded files it'll just re-download everything.

Oh okay that makes so much sense, I will do that.