Moving games

[Darakon]

Hi,
I was wondering if it's possible to move installed games from one drive to another, not having to delete anything and download it again.

Thanks

[Darakon]

Figured something out. There's a program that can move your games back and forth without any hassle. Here it is: http://www.traynier.com/software/steammover

[Dexter >:(]

i guess it is more possible than move steam for diffrent drive without installation it again ;/

[UberFiend]

lol for a moment I thought you were after a sim where you like pack furniture into a truck or something

[Quoth the Raven]

UberFiend の投稿を引用：

lol for a moment I thought you were after a sim where you like pack furniture into a truck or something

ROFL glad it wasn't just me who thought that

[RedLightning]

You can also install a small game to a new folder on another drive through steam if you do not already have one... then just copy the entire game folder that you want to move to the new steam folder. Then you just have to do a verify, it will just verify the game cache on the new drive and your good to go.

If you need a more precise step by step method just ask.

That program that moves stuff to another drive uses junction links and does not "really" move the software.

[scream]

I was able to move my 60+GB installation of GTA5 from my SSD to my new HDD without much trouble.

Step 1) Shutdown Steam.

Step 2) Copy your game folder found in "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\" to your new HDD.

Step 3) Open up a command prompt in "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\" and type:

mklink /j "Grand Theft Auto V' "D:\Grand Theft Auto V"

(Just replace 'Grand Theft Auto V' with your game's name)
What is mklink? mklink reroutes any requests for files from the original directory to the new directory. Feel free to look up documentation on 'mklink' if you want more info. There's a similar command on *nix/mac machines: "ln -s {name} {dir}"

Step 4) Startup steam.

Step 5) I'd recommend right-clicking the game and doing "Properties->Local Files->Verify Integrity of Game Cache..." just to make sure everything copied correctly. (you'd only have issues if there were bad sectors on a HDD or lost power or something)

Step 6) Enjoy your game!

[scream]

Darakon の投稿を引用：

Figured something out. There's a program that can move your games back and forth without any hassle. Here it is: http://www.traynier.com/software/steammover

This is a fancy program to do the steps I just described. It does a copy and the mklink for you.

[Tev]

scream の投稿を引用：

I was able to move my 60+GB installation of GTA5 from my SSD to my new HDD without much trouble.

Step 1) Shutdown Steam.

Step 2) Copy your game folder found in "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\" to your new HDD.

Step 3) Open up a command prompt in "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\" and type:

mklink /j "Grand Theft Auto V' "D:\Grand Theft Auto V"

(Just replace 'Grand Theft Auto V' with your game's name)
What is mklink? mklink reroutes any requests for files from the original directory to the new directory. Feel free to look up documentation on 'mklink' if you want more info. There's a similar command on *nix/mac machines: "ln -s {name} {dir}"

Step 4) Startup steam.

Step 5) I'd recommend right-clicking the game and doing "Properties->Local Files->Verify Integrity of Game Cache..." just to make sure everything copied correctly. (you'd only have issues if there were bad sectors on a HDD or lost power or something)

Step 6) Enjoy your game!

Symbolic links aren't really necessary now with Steam, since you can use Steam > Settings > Downloads > Steam Library Folders.

I still use them with Origin and Battlefield 4 though. Prefer to keep BF4 on SSD; while other Origin games on HDD.