Steam Cant Download Game To External Harddrive
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- My Xbox One can store games on a external hard drive and play then with no problems, why cant i store Steam games on a external hard drive on a PC and play them from the drive?
- Okay I am looking to hopefully run a few games off of my external usb 3.0 hdd. Can i download the game elsewhere and connect it to steam?
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Yes, you can. I installed steam on my external HDD and downloaded my games on it. There were shortcut to that steam.exe on my laptop and PC and I played all the games from the HDD directly and it caused me no trouble at all.
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I want to save some space on my SSD and have Steam and its games stored on an external drive.
Is it possible to install Steam and its games on an external drive ? Will some of the installation files be stored on my SSD ? Will games run sufficiently fast when played from the external drive ?
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When you come to install Steam, you should get a choice of where to install it, under custom installation if I remember correctly. If not, steam isn't massive anyway.
Steam Cant Download Game To External Harddrive To Computer
When you come to install games, you can choose a Steam library to install to. The default is the %steamapps folder within the steam installation directory. You can choose to use a different folder with each game:
Note: I already had a steam library on my HDD but it was straight forward to create a new one. Toro wheel horse manual download.
All you have to do is junction the Steamapps folder to a folder on an external drive. On 64 bit windows that's C:Program Files (x86)Steamsteamapps
See this super user answer for how to make a junction, there are also programs/shell extentions that make it easier, but for one junction, this is pretty easy.
Since you're on windows 7, this code should work:
Note that if you do this Steam will act rather weirdly if you run it while the external drive plugged in; it will attempt to download updates for games that aren't there and will force re-checks of your games on occasion since they went 'missing'. It's nothing major, but just try to avoid running Steam while the drive isn't plugged in.
I do this both on my Desktop (Steam installed on SSD, games are on an HDD) and a laptop where they're on an external drive. It works quite well.