Do you keep all your games installed or make room for new?

[S0ul]

I'm in the progress of installing a new game and I've got a pretty big collection, but nothing like what I've seen here on steam. I have a select few games uninstalled though because I knew I wouldn't be playing them ever again for selective reasons. I wondered if anyone else has made room by uninstalling games, or do you just keep all your games installed as like a tropy of your purchases?

Personally I like to keep my games installed in case I want too play them again, I can play them on the dot instead of waiting 30 - to 60 min's for the game to install. But I also wondered if this would slow down steam's performance in anyway, does it?

[wuddih]

nope

[Cavan47]

It does not slow steam down. Personal feed back I keep all mine installed simply because I have the space and my download speed is 1.5 mb.

[Rockhead Gaz]

Originally posted by Matthew Sobol's Daemon:

I have more than 600 games on my main account. There is no bloody way those are all staying installed.

I have 500-odd on my account. Same thing for me. Generally, I tend to have between 30 and 50 installed at any one time, and no game is ever more than a couple of hours download away.

[S0ul]

I see your point, just asking cause I usually keep all my games installed, to me its kinda a visual appeal for me, like hanging a trophy on display, when I uninstal and it turns blank, I feel as though I've taken a trophy down. I don't have 600 or 500 games though, over time as I increase I may be forced to have some games uninstalled, but till then I have 991GB of space to take up, and am looking to upgrading with more memory.

[IcyGlare]

I download only when I intend to play them then uninstall when I'm done. There's only one game in my library that I never uninstall. In addition, having just a few games installed makes it easier for me to decide on which games to play.

[Kargor]

I still have everything installed that I have downloaded (which is not every game from the library, just the ones that I have played or that have cards).

Still, eventually I'll be running out of disk space, and Steam games are an obvious way to fix that.

[Miauzifer]

i have only installed games they i play

[Spawn of Totoro]

When I was using a 500GB dirve, I had to move some to an external so I didn't have to redownload them, but most got deleted.

Now I have a 3TB drive with 145 of 444 games installed, with over 2TB left. At this point, I only delete the game if I have beaten it or know I won't play it again.

[chiefputsa☒lag]

no, since i only have a small steam games library of mostly free games. the rest of the games are gift/time-limited giveaways. (and i don't game that much)

[Bamford]

4TB harddrives ftw.
Yes I know we have 6GB+ now as well....
The real question is whether its worth backing up the games, because redownloading all those GB's would be a nightmare:(

USA internet speed is fail, and some are capped stupid low.

[Kargor]

Originally posted by Bamford:

4TB harddrives ftw.
Yes I know we have 6GB+ now as well....

Yeah, but mainboard manufacturers don't update their BIOSes of older boards to support UEFI. This means that my systems "only" have 2TB drives -- even the one that I upgraded a while back, replacing the 1TB drives with 2TB.

[Kitai]

i have a 1tb hdd with only 150gigs left with about 5games installed

[Master Zone]

Games that are heavily modded, like Skyrim, Morrowind and Fallout I keep installed forever! Stuffed if I am going to install all those mods again! It took a whole day to download the 100 mods I got on Skyrim and craft that game to how I like it.

[Spawn of Totoro]

Originally posted by Kargor:

Yeah, but mainboard manufacturers don't update their BIOSes of older boards to support UEFI. This means that my systems "only" have 2TB drives -- even the one that I upgraded a while back, replacing the 1TB drives with 2TB.

UEFI is only needed if the boot drive is greater then 2TB. If it is a secondary drive, then you can still use a drive with more the 2TB just fine. It will still need to be formated to GPT though.

http://www.hgst.com/support/high-capacity-hard-drives

[Charlie]

I have a 1TB HDD, I don't have that many games (28) but I reinstall Windows like every month so I use this as an opportunity to clear everything.