Changing installation path

[Debrone]

I ran out of space in my C: drive but still have alot of space in my D: drive but when the i changed the default installation path to D: drive when i try to install games it says my C: drive is full when i changed the install page to D: drive. Also i dont get the option to choose my install location when downloading the game it just automatically downloads to C: drive. Can someone plz help me im so desperate.

[Iceira]

Most have move steam to d: ..( if windows crash then it aient part of c: .

and reclick steam.exe at new place correct it self. ( but that still require free space enough )
and after that you can still make new steam lib at c: for they very few games you need there.

ofc.
you exit steam before move steam folder.

[crunchyfrog]

There's a few things you should check.

First of all are you using the settings correctly? You should be going into Steam settings > Downloads > Steam Library Folders > Add Library Folder.

If it's valid, it will appear then on that list as OK. You also set it to be the default installation location as well, otherwise it'll just carrying on using what you had before, the C drive.

So that said, if you're still having issues after doing that then there may be other things awry.

Steam NEEDS at maximum 90% of any hard drive used. It needs it this way or it'll affect performance, and one of the common issues that come from people running drives too full for Steam is it starts downloading on other drives instead.

So you may have "plenty of space" on your D: drive, but will it take it over that 90% threshold once it's done?

Furthermore, you also have to allow about THREE times the total file size you're downloading in that as well. The simple reason being, is that games don't just download bit by bit. They are compressed and encrypted. So there needs to be three times the space roughyl allocated so it can do all the decompression and swap filing before writing.

SO check all of these apply. If not you're going to need to delete or move some files.