Games won't Launch on my D: Drive compared to my C: Drive.

[Ash]

Just got a new PC recently and for some reason larger games on my D: Drive won't launch due to not recognising dlls and the dynamic link library even though I've got them all installed, all the games in my C: Drive runs absolutely perfectly.

Ex. Skyrim and Fallout had the same issue until I Uninstalled and Reinstalled the games on my C: Drive and It's not working perfectly compared to the other drive.

Some smaller games run just fine on my D: Drive.
If anyone can help that'd be amazing!

[Iceira]

You sure its a NTFS formated disk. ? ( and not a mac-linux-windows transfer media all in one solutions ) even my telly do not like exfat as media player ) NTFS no problem with media player on telly.

ps.
exfat and NTFS do not have same system media right on the disk.

assume you dont have check disk issue or steam librarys repaire issue.

exfat dont belong on windows OS, unless you need a transfer disk.

[Ash]

Originally posted by Iceira:

You sure its a NTFS formated disk. ? ( and not a mac-linux-windows transfer media all in one solutions ) even my telly do not like exfat as media player ) NTFS no problem with media player on telly.

ps.
exfat and NTFS do not have same system media right on the disk.

assume you dont have check disk issue or steam librarys repaire issue.

exfat dont belong on windows OS, unless you need a transfer disk.

Yes I'm %100 certain It's NTFS I've checked multiple times.
I've already done a repair check on my library as well as checking for disk issues everything is fine but games still won't recognise files in there folders Ex. Executables, dll and more.

really scratching my head on how to fix this.

[Iceira]

You sure its not own security that block it, because you do say wont "recognise files in there folders Ex. Executables," and yet you say other games work fine on it.

Make sure you check storage for each game from that drev, is on D-drev and not c-drev by mistake.

I have no other ideas what else this could be.


lets see if other have a clue.

ps.
You can also browse to local files ,and see if right game is on the right disk you claim work.
its not that we dont belive you its more a double check. ( you are not the first person in the world that thougth a game was on another disk or partions, ppl in old days had many drev letters with games on them.


You might need folder permission or whitelist each game.exe and its launcher.exe or config.exe

or test with a external disk , because this is to odd,


see event viewer if you have game crash, why a app dont work in windows.


ps.
validate game intergrity of files of games that dont work.

[Phénomènes Mystiques]

Did you assign the external drive to a letter other than D and not have the floating drive letter per external device because that would be the issue if you have not assigned that drive a letter such as Z.

I have one of my hot swap drives on drive T and the other is floating on D with the other external devices/plugins.

So assign that external drive a static drive letter.

See if that would work, but you will have to re-point to the library in the Steam Client.

I won't talk about symlinks because people always make fun of me even though it works.

[FRott]

I have this same issue with Halo and Arkham Origins Blackgate.
I have them installed on my NTFS D: Drive, and Halo won't even launch. Blackgate gets to the menu, but it will hang when I hit Play game.