Running out of space for DLC on drive C

[Jesster]

Hello everyone! Since there are a lot of regional packs coming out now, I am faced with a problem that all my mods are downloaded to drive C, and I don’t have enough memory there. Can you tell me how I can change the DLC download to drive D?

[martinolund]

For this game the only way to do that is to use a windows feature called Symbolic Link and that will get it done for you.

[Der Ausländer (Sulos)]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woLNJKdrkck This is what you are looking for. And read the comments for help, this time they realy help.

[Bulldog]

While in Steam, click the upper left 'Steam' then click 'Settings' then click 'Storage'. Once there you will be able to enter the disk and directory path where you want your files stored. I find it very funny how people will misguide you. I provide this service for free and ask for no money just a sticker.

[tastelesstrees]

Originally posted by Bulldog:

I find it very funny how people will misguide you.

Says the guy giving out wrong info...

[Droviin]

Originally posted by Bulldog:

While in Steam, click the upper left 'Steam' then click 'Settings' then click 'Storage'. Once there you will be able to enter the disk and directory path where you want your files stored. I find it very funny how people will misguide you. I provide this service for free and ask for no money just a sticker.

Oddly, this does not work for mods which are stored in the User folder on the main drive. With the region packs being in the multi-gigabyte range, this can rapidly eat up storage. Using a symbolic link freed up something like 15GB on my tiny windows drive and let me move the packs to a faster NVMe drive.

[martinolund]

Originally posted by Bulldog:

While in Steam, click the upper left 'Steam' then click 'Settings' then click 'Storage'. Once there you will be able to enter the disk and directory path where you want your files stored. I find it very funny how people will misguide you. I provide this service for free and ask for no money just a sticker.

This does not change the location of the mods, settings & local saves files, they remain on the C drive no matter what you do in Steam Settings Storage stuff. Only a symbolic link can help with that part.

[Bulldog]

I love how the 2 guys said the same thing.

[Challenger™]

Originally posted by Jesster:

Hello everyone! Since there are a lot of regional packs coming out now, I am faced with a problem that all my mods are downloaded to drive C, and I don’t have enough memory there. Can you tell me how I can change the DLC download to drive D?

I don't have or want CS2. I do have CS1. and I have the whole thing on D drive. Installation, DLC's, mods, assets, All works just fine. Don't know about putting Install on C and DLC on D, but it's worth a try.

Takes a while as you know but you can always keep your account and account information and use it to uninstall/install Steam, CS, DLC's, and all. Don't know nothing about all that "Symbolic Link" stuff. I do know I didn't use it to swap to D. btw My D is a 1T SDXC card.

Check under Account Details for Purchase History and License info.

[Sylvaa]

Originally posted by Bulldog:

While in Steam, click the upper left 'Steam' then click 'Settings' then click 'Storage'. Once there you will be able to enter the disk and directory path where you want your files stored. I find it very funny how people will misguide you. I provide this service for free and ask for no money just a sticker.

All that does is move the Steam location, CS2 still saves asset packs to AppData (31g so far...) which cannot be changed, that is what is filling people's boot drives, and likely causing many of the crashes.

[Bulldog]

Originally posted by Sylvaa:

Originally posted by Bulldog:

While in Steam, click the upper left 'Steam' then click 'Settings' then click 'Storage'. Once there you will be able to enter the disk and directory path where you want your files stored. I find it very funny how people will misguide you. I provide this service for free and ask for no money just a sticker.

All that does is move the Steam location, CS2 still saves asset packs to AppData (31g so far...) which cannot be changed, that is what is filling people's boot drives, and likely causing many of the crashes.

So the steam location on his C drive uses 60 gb of hard drive space. Moving that steam location to another drive will free up 60 GB on his C drive. Thus allowing more space (60GB) for mods.

[Malekith]

Originally posted by Jesster:

Hello everyone! Since there are a lot of regional packs coming out now, I am faced with a problem that all my mods are downloaded to drive C, and I don’t have enough memory there. Can you tell me how I can change the DLC download to drive D?

Due to the increasing size of games due to the graphical fidelity in a lot of them. I suggest investing in 2TB SSDs for other drives, and just install all the games on there freeing up the C: drive which is where the OS is installed by default.

My 2TB SSD for C: is pretty much capped out now.

[Sylvaa]

Where you have your games installed makes no difference to where Appdata is, the game uses AppData for its mods/assets folders, regardless of where it is installed. Which is bizarre.

I use a 250gb M2 something or other, as a boot and core apps only drive, and this game, through poor design, is sat on 31gb of that, and we have only had a handful of assets so far, what happens when actual DLC is released? 50, 60, 70gb?

They need to change the way the game handles mods, so that it installs them in the game directory, wherever the user has chosen that to be.

[Dark Sun Gwyndolin]

Mods are installed to the AppData folder rather than whatever folder I've designated for Steam games? That's utterly insane and needs to be fixed.

[martinolund]

Originally posted by Dark Sun Gwyndolin:

Mods are installed to the AppData folder rather than whatever folder I've designated for Steam games? That's utterly insane and needs to be fixed.

Yes we can all agree on that. Until then a symbolic link which takes about 10 seconds to setup (a bit longer if you've never used that windows feature before as you have to learn about it) gets the job done.

[Kyuui]

Every time I think about reinstalling the game, I come here an read for a bit. Every, single, time. Some decision that PDX/CO made, has stopped that line of thought. Appdata? You have got to be kidding me