Hi peeps, This may be old news to you but it's something I only found out today. Steam now allows you to install games to different drives! Now you can happily install your favourite games on an SSD and the rest on an HDD. Result!
Had it a couple months now from the beta and it has been released officially for about 2-3weeks now. It's a good feature and glad they put it in.
You can also install games to external drives too. I haven't tried it but I cant see why you wouldn't be able to install to a network drive either.
What they need to do it allow the backup games function to back each game up to it's own folder when you select mutiple games. I have to back each one up on it's own currently which takes a while.
Removes the need to use Steam Mover or raid SSD's. My motherboard doesn't support trim with raid. So as and when I add another ssd its going to have all my games on it. Or when I add a larger hdd to my system my current tb drive will be for steam games only
My new pc has a Steam tb thought about putting a couple on my ssd but for all the difference it would make I'd rather keep things tidy I think.
Depends greatly on the game itself. Battlefield 3 loads much quicker from SSD as do larger games in general.
Yes, I believe it is possible. It must have some sort of target that you have to point it to in order for steam to see it I suspect. Shouldn't be too much of a doddle. I am using my 120 Gig SSD as my Steam drive with the games I play regularly and I keep my others along with backups on a separate HDD.
Probably just using a similar (if indeed, it is not "actual") system to symlinks. Easy way to move it if you already have it installed is backup the folder, uninstall the game, reinstall with the symlink in place, then exit Steam, copy over the files and reopen and validate the game files. Done.
When you install a game, it gives you a drop down menu on your tab with all your drives that are possibles, just before you click OK to install
Ah, I was hoping it would be easy to move already installed games to and fro, depending on what you're playing. Not quite as comfortable as a in-system solution should work, but sounds good.
