Band_Geek3 Posted January 17, 2014 Posted January 17, 2014 So I'm thinking about moving my Skyrim over to an SSD. I don't have one at all yet, so I'm unaware as to the processes involved. So is moving Skyrim over as simple as just getting steammover or something? Is there more to do? Any other tips/tricks that I'm not thinking about? Any info is appreciated! Thanks ahead of time.
prideslayer Posted January 17, 2014 Posted January 17, 2014 Never heard of "steammover". It should work if you just shut down steam, move the game directory wherever you want it, and then make a symlink (windows lingo: junction point) to the new location, with the old name. You need vista, 7, or 8 for this -- no go on XP.
CGi Posted January 17, 2014 Posted January 17, 2014 Method for less advanced PC users: Create the following folders on the target drive: Steam -> SteamApps -> Common (each under the previously created one). Copy your installation of Skyrim from inside the now used common folder into the created common folder. Uninstall your Skyrim thru Steam. Re-download it and point the new library to the drive where you created the Steam\* folders. Since everything is already there, the download should finish almost instantly. Warning: Make a backup of Skyrim using Steams Backup function before you uninstall it, in case something goes wrong. Another method: if you installed all games into Steams default folder and want to move Steam together with all games, then just move your complete Steam installation and that's it.
prideslayer Posted January 17, 2014 Posted January 17, 2014 Just a note, that will (I believe) move *all* the steam games to that new location, not just skyrim. You may want this, if so, go for it.
CGi Posted January 17, 2014 Posted January 17, 2014 This actually works for a single game too. Did this with SRIV.Why? Because you download only one game (Skyrim in this case) and for every game a new drive (Steam library) can be chosen. So it's only one download for files that are already there and by this will only be validated.
prideslayer Posted January 17, 2014 Posted January 17, 2014 OH wow.. I didn't know that. I thought it was just.. here's your library, done, since it never does ask where you want to install stuff to. Thank you, sir!
Band_Geek3 Posted January 17, 2014 Author Posted January 17, 2014 Oh wow, thanks guys. I didn't expect multiple solutions, I'll give them a shot and update you when the drive arrives in the mail
Uriel Posted January 17, 2014 Posted January 17, 2014 There is also a SteamTool utility. I used it to move my Dota2 to the SSD drive. Works well.
CGi Posted January 17, 2014 Posted January 17, 2014 SteamTool uses junction points, as suggested by prideslayer and does not make use of the still fairly new feature of Steam, of having multiple real steam libraries on multiple drives. SteamTool is definitly a quick way and allows non-steam library folders to be used, but then i would do it by hand by using MkLink, which is part of Windows 7+.
CGi Posted January 17, 2014 Posted January 17, 2014 if SymLinks are the prefered method, here a tool that i made for personal use thru Total Commander and that uses MkLink to do it's job. it uses the active side and the highlighted folder or file as source and the other (inactive) side as target, where the link will be created.it detects the source (file or folder) automaticly and allows hard links and connect dirs as well. The name of the created link can be named too, ofc. it may be detected as a virus due to the used runtime compressor. ignore it. if the prog trys to access the network, delete it asap. Not very user friendly and can work only with one source, but it was made in a snap as i was tired of using the prompt over and over again.So ya, no message if the link was created. it just does it and shows no indicator when it's done. Maybe i'll update it one day to close itself when the link was created successfully and add a parameter that creates the link with the default name, so the GUi doesn't even pop up. But right now, it does the trick for me as it is.Parameters to be used: %P%N %T if you like it: Have fun but don't upload it somewhere else. MkLinkGUi.7Z
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