Finally, An In-Built Way To Choose Steam Install Locations - Polidicks

Well, I will do this on my next install, I used the fuck out of steam mover.

[QUOTE=Oicani Gonzales;37633631]if i close it on online mode, dc my internet and try to open it in offline mode, it doesnt work even though i use it everyday, acct is remembered and logs in automatically etc[/QUOTE] didn't they fix it last patch?

I found a solution to this long ago. [img]http://i.imgur.com/dAfJf.png[/img]

About the Offline mode thing. You must have all your currently installed games updated and played at least once while online to use offline mode.

[QUOTE=cccritical;37633180]now fix offline mode (and before anyone says "ur jsut not useuing it rite," if you don't have an internet connection and you try to start steam it'll give you an option to start in offline mode, it's just broken)[/QUOTE] But it's not broken, you're just using it wrong. I'm pretty sure it's general knowledge that you must run Steam in Offline mode AND have ran at least once of every game installed on it while connected in order to be able to play them, it has always worked fine for me following those 2 guidelines.

I don't know why you'd need more than a dedicated drive with 200-500 tb for games or so, and you could use that old tool to transfer to your SSD anyway

So apparently you can't uninstall a game that you have and install it again in a new location, that really sucks..

Please have shutdown computer after download option next.

[QUOTE=Bloodsh0t;37634099]So apparently you can't uninstall a game that you have and install it again in a new location, that really sucks..[/QUOTE] Did you try deleting the folder in the steam directory for the game?

[QUOTE=DeanWinchester;37633932]But it's not broken, you're just using it wrong. I'm pretty sure it's general knowledge that you must run Steam in Offline mode AND have ran at least once of every game installed on it while connected in order to be able to play them, it has always worked fine for me following those 2 guidelines.[/QUOTE] I thought if a specific game didn't qualify you'd just be told it wasn't available in offline mode?

[QUOTE=SSBMX;37634182]Did you try deleting the folder in the steam directory for the game?[/QUOTE] Yeah but I think the problem is that the game i'm trying to install is day of defeat:source and it uses stuff from Half-Life and such but if I try to install Dota 2 Test i can choose location.

Holy shit. did you hear that local disk C? were finally free!!

[QUOTE=Profanwolf;37632873]Took long enough for someone to figure this out, 500 mb free on my main partition :pwn:[/QUOTE] 10GB on my main drive...due to steam. seriously this is really good news. glad they sorted this out...

Steam is proprietary software and therefore does not respect It's users freedoms. I would heavily advise against the use of proprietary software and recommend that you install a free as in freedom OS, such as gNewSense. Thank you for your time and I hope you take my advice into consideration.

Deliverance.

Can I theoretically install some steam games on a flash drive with the client on there as well and play from the drive?

[QUOTE=GameDev;37635490]Can I theoretically install some steam games on a flash drive with the client on there as well and play from the drive?[/QUOTE] If this happened. I'll never find any more space on a 16GB flash drive.

[QUOTE=Ray-The-Sun;37633251]Nope, just tried it on my laptop which has no possible way to connect. Still worked.[/QUOTE] There are no specifics on exactly what causes it to not work, but generally if you start up your PC without internet and try to use steam you can if you had internet access/steam usage somewhat recently I.E. if you try this experiment but on a computer that has been disconnected from steam/offline for several days, then try to log into offline mode, it won't let you. It appears to only work if you've used steam somewhat recently, or you personally chose to enter offline mode while you were already online

[QUOTE=GameDev;37635490]Can I theoretically install some steam games on a flash drive with the client on there as well and play from the drive?[/QUOTE] I use an external hdd with steam and I can play it on any pc with internet access So I'd say yes

Well finally, I'm been using SteamTool all this time to move games to my other drives. Now I wont have to clear space on my main drive anymore just to move some game that I'm installing...!

Couldn't you already do this? I remember stuffing all my steam games on one harddrive and making steamapps redirect to the external.

[QUOTE=DeanWinchester;37633932]But it's not broken, you're just using it wrong. I'm pretty sure it's general knowledge that you must run Steam in Offline mode AND have ran at least once of every game installed on it while connected in order to be able to play them, it has always worked fine for me following those 2 guidelines.[/QUOTE] How the hell is that common knowledge. It shouldn't even be possible to use offline mode wrong. And people tell me that steam is not drm? I don't understand.

[QUOTE=TehWhale;37633196]it's always worked fine for me when i didn't have internet and started steam[/QUOTE] Restart the computer with no internet and it won't work. If Steam has just one chance to connect then offline mode will work fine but if there is no connection for it to begin with it won't start.

Would you guys say that an external enclosure running through e-sata/USB 2.0 might be slower than internal HDD?

[QUOTE=t h e;37637379]Couldn't you already do this? I remember stuffing all my steam games on one harddrive and making steamapps redirect to the external.[/QUOTE] yes you could redirect using symbolic links or whatever but steam seems to finally be adding it by default next thing you know we'll have control over the download queue!

[QUOTE=Philly c;37637794]How the hell is that common knowledge. It shouldn't even be possible to use offline mode wrong. And people tell me that steam is not drm? I don't understand.[/QUOTE]I don't know of any intelligent person who says Steam isn't DRM. It is, its just DRM done right. The problems with offline mode had a lot to do with it not shutting down properly, which they fixed that issue recently.

Dammit, and I JUST bought a 3TB hard drive last week and manually moved everything in my steam folder to the new hard drive myself.

I have a 1TB drive currently, and a 2TB drive I purchased recently I've been meaning to move over to. I might use my current one as a dedicated platform for Steam or games in general. Or maybe reverse that. Hell if I know, I need to get the new one installed to begin with.

Anyone else having trouble getting it to work? I've made the new folder but I'm not being given the option to install in to it.

[QUOTE=GameDev;37635490]Can I theoretically install some steam games on a flash drive with the client on there as well and play from the drive?[/QUOTE] You've been able to do that for a long while now...