Download Game To External Hard Drive
Feb 06, 2019 i bought sims 4 online the other day but unfortunately didnt look at the storage content and my laptop didnt have enough storage for the game download. So i have ordered a new hard drive but when i click on the hard drives folder to download through that it wont work and on the back of the box it says no driver needed (except for windows 98SE. Jan 19, 2018 - PS4 with Seagate Backup Plus external hard drive. Game-heads everywhere are pretty excited at the new features that arrived this week. You can download and install applications directly to your external drive, and simply.
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I want to save some space on my SSD and have Steam and its games stored on an external drive.
Is it possible to install Steam and its games on an external drive ? Will some of the installation files be stored on my SSD ? Will games run sufficiently fast when played from the external drive ?
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When you come to install Steam, you should get a choice of where to install it, under custom installation if I remember correctly. If not, steam isn't massive anyway.
When you come to install games, you can choose a Steam library to install to. The default is the %steamapps folder within the steam installation directory. You can choose to use a different folder with each game:
Note: I already had a steam library on my HDD but it was straight forward to create a new one.
Sean KennySean KennyAll you have to do is junction the Steamapps folder to a folder on an external drive. On 64 bit windows that's C:Program Files (x86)Steamsteamapps
See this super user answer for how to make a junction, there are also programs/shell extentions that make it easier, but for one junction, this is pretty easy.
Since you're on windows 7, this code should work:
Note that if you do this Steam will act rather weirdly if you run it while the external drive plugged in; it will attempt to download updates for games that aren't there and will force re-checks of your games on occasion since they went 'missing'. It's nothing major, but just try to avoid running Steam while the drive isn't plugged in.
I do this both on my Desktop (Steam installed on SSD, games are on an HDD) and a laptop where they're on an external drive. It works quite well.
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