HELP with 2 accounts, 2 copies of GTA V one for modding and the other for online.

[Jeruhmee3]

As the title says.

But to get into more detail, basically I love modding GTA V I can go crazy to the point of uninstalling the mods would be a huge pain in order to play online once again.

To the point of deleting game and reinstalling because of modding mistakes. I HATE doing this back and forth.

I made a second account for modding only. so on This account I can play GTA Online whenever to make it easier.

On that second account I purchased GTA V once again.
"Note, my second account is not shared with my main account at all." AKA Family Share.

HERE IS WHERE THE PROBLEM IS. for some reason on my second account the installation location for games is still the same as my main account. So if I deleted GTA V on my second account it would be deleted on my main account.

So how do I seperate installation locations for both accounts so I can have 2 seprate installation locations of GTA V so I can use one for moddding and on to keep as is to play online?

I would really appreciate any suggestions, Thank you.

[Jerome]

Do you have two hard drives or partitions? If so, then you can install on both drives. That would consume a lot of space though.

[Vibes]

People like you are the reason R* gets away with their ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

[JazzBlueChally]

Originally posted by Donald Sutherland's Moustache:

People like you are the reason R* gets away with their ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

You are an idiot. Hes talking about modding single player you noob.

[Jeruhmee3]

Originally posted by Jerome:

Do you have two hard drives or partitions? If so, then you can install on both drives. That would consume a lot of space though.

I do but the problem is when I got to install GTA V on my main account and after its done and I go to second account its installed aswell because of the installation on my main account.

both accounts share installation location.

[Jeruhmee3]

Originally posted by Donald Sutherland's Moustache:

People like you are the reason R* gets away with their ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

That does not really make scense because this isn't at all about "R* ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥t"
Its more about Steam and my computer itself.

[Alpacalypse]

use an exterior hard drive, or get a computer with an SSD and a HDD. Basically any alternate system will work.

[Majistic]

I think it would have been easier with a script that make a junction of the GTA V installation folder you want.

Say you copy your installation to somewhere else, then delete your original folder. Now, since you had tons of mods, you could reinstall GTA V through Steam. Then, you move that folder somewhere else (don't copy it, cut/paste it).

Now you've got two installation folders of GTA V, one modded and another not modded. They should be both somewhere else of your steamapps folder. Now, you could make a quick batch script that creates a junction in your Steam installation to one of the installation folder you copied/moved. Basically, a junction creates a "shortcut links" toward another folder so that Steam think the game is installed but it's actually somewhere else than the steamapps folder.

You can look at the documentation of mklink, the tool used for creating junctions :
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753194(v=ws.11).aspx

Basically, you would use it like that :
mklink /j "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Grand Theft Auto V" "C:\Games\Modded GTAV"

Where "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Grand Theft Auto V" is your Steam installation folder and the location of the game recognized by Steam;

And where "C:\Games\Modded GTAV" is the copied folder of your installation with mods.

Then, you can do the same for your clean GTA V installation, like this :
mklink /j "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Grand Theft Auto V" "C:\Games\Clean GTAV"

Also, don't forget to delete the junction before you create another one. If you don't, it just displays you an error when using the command.