Game Installations onMY PC

[grreed1124]

My Drive C is a 250 gigabuyte SSD but my Drive D is a 1TB 7200 rpm disk and nothing on it. My SSD I like for flight simulation because it loads fast but it's getting full. Is there anyway I can have the Steam client on my Drive C but keep some game on Drive D? Thanks

[NOT๑JEHAD]

i dont think so
but steam/ in game settings you can move game folder data to another drive

[Snapjak]

Absolutely.

Steam (top right) > settings > downloads > steam library folders > add library folder and make one on your D drive.

Right-click any game you want to move > properties > local files tab > move install
When you install a new game there'll be a drop down menu for where to install games.

[The Giving One]

When adding a new library folder, as the good Snapjak kindly so well explains, that new folder must be empty.

Pretty sure you get an error message if it is not, but the new library folder must be totally empty.

So you can't add an entire hard drive, for example, unless that hard drive is totally empty.

[grreed1124]

Thank you. I will give that a shot. Flight Sims take a lot of space with addon planes, scenery upgrades, Reality-XP, and all the stuff takes gigs. I will put my other titles on "D".

[The Giving One]

It's a good plan to have a secondary library folder if one if your drives that has the primary is running out of space.

You never want to almost fill up a hard drive, as that can possibly cause all kinds of problems. Drives need free space for disk operations, so you might need to move more than just a game or two, depending on how much free space you have left.

You also have to keep in mind automatic updates to games in the future, and sometimes, these can be quite large, depending on the game. Hope that helps.

[grreed1124]

Indeed. I want only Flightsim on my SSD. If I ever buy MSFS 2020 then FSX goes to drive D. I may want Prepar3d or X-plane 11 to.

[Jaunitta 🌸]

Make folder STEAM on new drive usb3
Rightclick game in C drive>properties>Local Files Tab> move installation files.
It moves the game . Screenshots and saves remain on C drive.
Then open Steam top left corner>settings>downloads>add new library folder>select STEAM on the other drive. Its done.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2141348697