Can I download a game on my 1TB usb harddrive or can you only download games on your computer?

[Alex Helders]

I don't have 50gb required for a game I want to play because I have no space until I uninstall another game.

I was thinking, I have a 1TB usb harddrive I bought for school few years back. Is it possible to download the game on that instead or does it not work like this.

[Zekiran]

Uninstall things. If you're that pressed for space on a main drive, your computer will start having problems. Remember that you will NEED to keep at least as much hard drive space free as you have RAM.

Problem solved by buying a much larger drive, offloading your games, music, and data to it, and leave your old drive for the OS.

[Hanomaly]

Sure it's possible to download a game onto your usb stick.
However *playing* a game from a usb stick sure isn't going to give you a smooth game play experience. But.. you can try.

Also, unplugging the usb stick from your computer can cause issues with Steam being able to "find" the game later if you plug it back in.

In the end it's probably better for you to just free up harddrive space, or buy a secondary proper-hdd for your computer. HDDs are really pretty cheap now a days.

[Alex Helders]

Publicado originalmente por Hanomaly:

Sure it's possible to download a game onto your usb stick.
However *playing* a game from a usb stick sure isn't going to give you a smooth game play experience. But.. you can try.

Also, unplugging the usb stick from your computer can cause issues with Steam being able to "find" the game later if you plug it back in.

In the end it's probably better for you to just free up harddrive space, or buy a secondary proper-hdd for your computer. HDDs are really pretty cheap now a days.

Okay, so not worth it then. Thanks.

[Alex Helders]

Publicado originalmente por Zekiran:

Uninstall things. If you're that pressed for space on a main drive, your computer will start having problems. Remember that you will NEED to keep at least as much hard drive space free as you have RAM.

Problem solved by buying a much larger drive, offloading your games, music, and data to it, and leave your old drive for the OS.

I have 27gb available and the drive is 232gb. How can I discover what is using the most gb to make space?

[Alex Helders]

I don't understand why all the programs shown in control panel when you want to uninstall something don't add up to my harddrive disk space (232gb). Still trying to get more gb but finding it hard to find the top gb stealers

[Hanomaly]

Publicado originalmente por PARALYSIS:

I don't understand why all the programs shown in control panel when you want to uninstall something don't add up to my harddrive disk space (232gb). Still trying to get more gb but finding it hard to find the top gb stealers

You could try this:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17421/windows-free-up-drive-space

Click the "Use Disk Cleanup" option and then follow those directions.

Sometimes you can free up loads of space doing that. Everything in disk cleanup is safe to pick to delete, even tho by default not all the boxes will be checked. You can checkmark everything and free up max space.

Again, there is nothing in there that will "hurt your computer" if you choose to let Windows Disk Cleanup delete that stuff. Your save games won't be broken. You won't lose any vital information.

[Sandvich]

Publicado originalmente por PARALYSIS:

Publicado originalmente por Zekiran:

Uninstall things. If you're that pressed for space on a main drive, your computer will start having problems. Remember that you will NEED to keep at least as much hard drive space free as you have RAM.

Problem solved by buying a much larger drive, offloading your games, music, and data to it, and leave your old drive for the OS.

I have 27gb available and the drive is 232gb. How can I discover what is using the most gb to make space?

WinDirStat is pretty good.

[Alex Helders]

i typed in size: gigantic in the search bar and it found the top gb stealers. All of these didn't add up to the total gb used so i don't know. Anyway, I uninstalled the game I was playing to play the game i'm downloading now. Only way to play it. Did manage to make room for 10gb which got be from 27gb to 37gb though.

[MancSoulja]

Publicado originalmente por Hanomaly:

Sure it's possible to download a game onto your usb stick.
However *playing* a game from a usb stick sure isn't going to give you a smooth game play experience. But.. you can try.

Also, unplugging the usb stick from your computer can cause issues with Steam being able to "find" the game later if you plug it back in.

In the end it's probably better for you to just free up harddrive space, or buy a secondary proper-hdd for your computer. HDDs are really pretty cheap now a days.

He said USB HDD not USB Stick.

[MancSoulja]

I played Steam using a USB HDD for years with not one issue. If you have USB 3.0 your HDD will probably be just as fast as a SATA one.

[Zekiran]

Yeah actually I thought they meant stick too lol.

I have most of my data and some of my steam games on a 3tb external and they do work fine but it DOES occasionally take it a bit to spin up.

That said though, strongly recommend moving your games and such to another internal drive, and leave your main os drive for vital stuff.

[Alex Helders]

Publicado originalmente por Zekiran:

Yeah actually I thought they meant stick too lol.

I have most of my data and some of my steam games on a 3tb external and they do work fine but it DOES occasionally take it a bit to spin up.

That said though, strongly recommend moving your games and such to another internal drive, and leave your main os drive for vital stuff.

Guys I have this.....

https://www.scorptec.com.au/product/Hard-Drives-&-SSDs/External-Portable-Drives/54447-STDR1000300?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI7K-IxIPr1wIVjgYqCh1zNw8sEAQYAiABEgI-XvD_BwE

[MancSoulja]

Publicado originalmente por PARALYSIS:

Publicado originalmente por Zekiran:

Yeah actually I thought they meant stick too lol.

I have most of my data and some of my steam games on a 3tb external and they do work fine but it DOES occasionally take it a bit to spin up.

That said though, strongly recommend moving your games and such to another internal drive, and leave your main os drive for vital stuff.

Guys I have this.....

https://www.scorptec.com.au/product/Hard-Drives-&-SSDs/External-Portable-Drives/54447-STDR1000300?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI7K-IxIPr1wIVjgYqCh1zNw8sEAQYAiABEgI-XvD_BwE

A backup drive is not the right choice, they're not very fast. Bottom line, the majority of your games will work fine but expect long loading times.

[1425657402]

you are stupid

[Alex Helders]

Publicado originalmente por 1425657402:

you are stupid

You're new to Steam. Read the rules. We're not usernames, we're people. I'm not responding further.