How do I change a Steam Game's Launch Location?

[Printers]

If you don't know, don't comment please :)

[~Black Cat~ [EH]]

By launch location what do you mean?

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Originally posted by ~Black Cat~ EH:

By launch location what do you mean?

I moved my Garry's Mod to my D drive from my C drive, Steam still thinks it's still in the C drive thus it tries launching Garry's Mod from there whereas I want it to launch on my D drive.

[Printers]

I've figured it out.
Just uninstall from original hdd.
Install on new hdd.
It will detect that it's already installed and yeah.

[~Black Cat~ [EH]]

You should not move the game, you should tell steam to move the library. On the top left corner select steam, parameters and then downloads. You can select there the folders for steam games.

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Originally posted by ~Black Cat~ EH:

You should not move the game, you should tell steam to move the library. On the top left corner select steam, parameters and then downloads. You can select there the folders for steam games.

I didn't want to install it again.

[~Black Cat~ [EH]]

It's ok but for the next games add a folder on the disc you want them to be and add it to steam because some don't work when doing a copy paste.

[Shuten-Dōji酒呑童子]

I had an issue where I moved game install location from my C drive to my D drive, but wanted to move it back. Problem was that "game already installed on C drive" so I wasn't able to move the install location back the C drive where the game was already installed, forcing my game to launch from the D drive which was bad.

I uninstalled the game from the C drive, then moved install location from the D drive to the C drive. This is what I wanted to avoid, hoping I could just uninstall from the D drive and set the launch location from the C drive where it was already installed. Can't have everything you want.

[Shuten-Dōji酒呑童子]

Originally posted by Dead_Guy:

You should not move the game, you should tell steam to move the library. On the top left corner select steam, parameters and then downloads. You can select there the folders for steam games.

I've heard this many times from many people but could not understand what they mean by that, since I already have my C drive selected as one of the librarys. The problem was that I already had the game installed in a drive which was under a steam library and steam simply would not select that drive to launch from for that game. Please help me understand here. Should I just have set the C drive to my default drive? (Since that seems to be the only option I could do past adding more drives)

[chrissquid]

Kind of late but for anyone trying to do this, you can move the folder normally as you'd want to, then go to steam and uninstall the game. Next go to re install the game on the new drive, and it will detect that there are already files for the game there and it will use them. This is better than using steam's built in feature for moving games imo bc moving it with steam's feature is significantly slower than just copy and pasting the files onto the new drive for some reason.

[shade00]

Originally posted by chrissquid:

Kind of late but for anyone trying to do this, you can move the folder normally as you'd want to, then go to steam and uninstall the game. Next go to re install the game on the new drive, and it will detect that there are already files for the game there and it will use them. This is better than using steam's built in feature for moving games imo bc moving it with steam's feature is significantly slower than just copy and pasting the files onto the new drive for some reason.

but you also have to becareful, else itll just do a full redownload x.x if anythings changed too think