Is there a way to install Steam games to the external drive?
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I'd imagine you have steam installed on the external HDD and install the usual way.
Just to the external HDD instead.
Yes, I have heard it is possible.
I actually heard that someone installed the games onto their Ipod and played them off that at school, no idea how it was done, but proof of concept right there.
You can put your Steam folder onto a portable drive and play it on any PC with Windows 2000 or better. What's all the fuss about?
Yea I do it all the time, I just copied my steam folder onto my external, now anytime I download a new steam game or one I already have updates it saves to the external drive.
you can do that or when you install them, just change the directory, it works with normal games and should for steam
Unfortunately that has an adverse effect on performance drastically increasing loading times due to the fact that USB is slower than IDE and SATA.
[QUOTE=fishface60]Unfortunately that has an adverse effect on performance drastically increasing loading times due to the fact that USB is slower than IDE and SATA.[/QUOTE]
Yes that it is true, so yeah you can put steam games on an external HD but it would be extremely laggy.
[QUOTE=Relisys]Yes that it is true, so yeah you can put steam games on an external HD but it would be extremely laggy.[/QUOTE]
Not really. My external USB HDD (actually, IDE in an enclosure) transfer rate averages at 72.1 MB/sec. Internal SATA HD averages at 94 MB/sec.
My games run too slowly anyway so there's no chance of me ever doing that, but if you have some crazy uber system then go for it.
[QUOTE=fishface60;12189998]Unfortunately that has an adverse effect on performance drastically increasing loading times due to the fact that USB is slower than IDE and SATA.[/QUOTE]
I'm runin' my external with usb, it loads Gmod few seconds faster.
Also downloaded GTASA today, and Steam downloaded it to the external, and there was no performance drop.
I followed a steam FAQ thing for it:
[highlight]STEAM MUST BE LOGGED OUT AND SHUTDOWN[/HIGHLIGHT]
1. Delete everything apart from [B]STEAM APPS & STEAM.EXE[/B]
2. Move it to your new loacation
3. Login to steam again, wait for updates
4. Enjoy.
Atleast I think so
I did this, just install Steam to the the external drive.
[QUOTE=fishface60;12189998]Unfortunately that has an adverse effect on performance drastically increasing loading times due to the fact that USB is slower than IDE and SATA.[/QUOTE]
You could get an eSATA external drive and it would work just fine.
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