• Store your steam games on multiple drives
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Have you ever ran out of hard disk space for your steam games but have extra drives that could be used to store them? Did you want to put some of your games on those extra drives? Well now you can!!! Requirements: -Windows Vista or anything newer -Administrator Privliges Basic Idea: what we are going to do is use the mklink command in the command prompt to "mirror" gcf files that are located on other drives, or even on another computer. Steps: 1) Take the gcf(s) or folder that you wish to transfer and move it you your desired location. 2) Open command prompt by going to the start menu, clicking on run, typing cmd and clicking ok. 3) In command prompt, type in: mklink "directoryofsteamapps\nameofgcf.gcf" "directoryofyourtransferedgcf/nameofgcf.gcf" example: mklink "C:\program files\steam\steamapps\garrysmod.gcf" "D:\files\garrysmod.gcf" 5) have fun =D
It's more convenient to just put the whole steamapps folder on another drive and use [url=http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896768.aspx]Junction[/url] to link it, that way if/when you reinstall windows you only have to recreate one link.
Or save a little bit of cash and buy one big hdd. :c00l:
[QUOTE=Van-man;16918785]Or save a little bit of cash and buy one big hdd. :c00l:[/QUOTE] Yea 500gb harddrives are only 30£ish although I filled up mine over 2years :crying: so Im gonna buy a 1TB or 2 :dance:
[QUOTE=Roast Beast;16912752]It's more convenient to just put the whole steamapps folder on another drive and use [url=http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896768.aspx]Junction[/url] to link it, that way if/when you reinstall windows you only have to recreate one link.[/QUOTE] When I reinstall Windows I just install Steam over the old installation so it replaces the exes/dlls/etc and recreates registry entries, but it doesn't remove steamapps.
I, for one, backed up my Steamapps folder on my 500GB external just in case shit happens. In a time of emergency I can always leech off my friend's computers and still play CS:S without fail
[QUOTE=Xera;16919082]When I reinstall Windows I just install Steam over the old installation so it replaces the exes/dlls/etc and recreates registry entries, but it doesn't remove steamapps.[/QUOTE] Cool, didn't know you could do that.
I just keep steam installed on a backup partition and re-run steam.exe after formatting, and it just has to re-install the service. After that, all my games and mods are just as they were before I formatted though.
This is useful for the people that have those SSD's.
God people are being slow, first the 'alt+print scr' and now this.
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