Is it Possible to download steam games on your onedrive folder

[Coaditt]

i just bought onedrive personal just for it so please tell me. just so i can have 1 TB for games

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

For backup purposes, sure. For any other reason, no.

[Supafly]

Yes but why? You'd have to

1. Download from Steam
2. Upload to Onedrive

3. Then when you want the files again you'd need to download from Onedrive or Download from Steam.

Either way you'd be downloading the files again.

However, keep in mind if the game has been updated after you've uploaded to Onedrive you'll still need to download the patch/es from Steam

[Cathulhu]

Why would you want to do such a stupid thing?

[Ettanin]

Escrito originalmente por Hunter Coaditt:

i just bought onedrive personal just for it so please tell me. just so i can have 1 TB for games

Considering requests are per file and considering the nature of seeking for cloud-only files, this is a bad idea, especially so because OneDrive keeps a local mirror for files frequently used.

For small files you will be throttled by the latency to the cloud (which in best case would be, for the average broadband connection, between 10 and 30ms) as OneDrive only downloads files one by one, which will significantly increase loading times if the game has several hundred or even thousands of small files, only able to request about 20-50 of these per second.

For large files you will be throttled by your download speed because OneDrive has to load the entire file to load a subset of data from it in case the game uses some tight packing of game asset data.

You are better off freeing up space or getting another drive instead of abusing the cloud as an alternative for frequent-use space.