Can you save a game on a extern hard drive?

[KENNE KOKOLiNO]

I'm going to clear my computer and want my Subnautica to be saved. Is It possible to save the game on a extern harddrive?

[Satoru]

tl;dr version:

* "can" yes

* "should" no

Longer version:

Steam does not officially support running games from external drivers. its internal database assumes drives are connected at all times. If steam tries to update the game and steam tries to find the games files and sees nothing you're screwed. If you put the game on an external drives be prepared for issues where steam cannot find the game for some reason in the future.

External drives are also slow due to the fact they are generally poorly built and use really terrible on-board controllers and slow internal drives. This means you will likely encounter things like slow load times. Also for open world games like Subnautica, you will experience FPS hitching as the game streams data from the slow hard drive to you causing hitching or texture pop in.

[KENNE KOKOLiNO]

Yeah, but can I just put the game back to my PC when Its cleared or will that not work?

[Satoru]

Originally posted by kenne:

Yeah, but can I just put the game back to my PC when Its cleared or will that not work?

Yes you can move games between libraries. You can make your external drive a library by going to Steam->settings->Downloads->Steam library folders. Create a steam library folder on your external drive. When you install Subnautica, select that library location to install, it'll be selectable via a pulldown

Once your hard drive opens up, you can select the game in steam->properties->local files. And there will be an option to "move Install Folder". Then select your internal hard drive library.

[KENNE KOKOLiNO]

ah, okey thanks for the help

[wuddih]

1. create a library path on the drive with Steam (in settings)
2. download/move it to there (steam has a move function in rightclick->properties on a game)
3. do whatever you wanted to do with your system
4. readd the library path from the external drive and move the game back.

if the download does not take longer then 8 hours(sleep), just redownload it.

[Andrewskiiii]

Originally posted by kenne:

I'm going to clear my computer and want my Subnautica to be saved. Is It possible to save the game on a extern harddrive?

you dont even own subnatica

[KENNE KOKOLiNO]

xD