Offloading Games to HDD

[Zahid Shabir]

Well I have been looking for an SSD and am saving up for one but, my boot drive (Corsair Force Series MP500 240GB M.2) is almost full. I had a spare HDD which i thought was broken (It was in my old Dell PC which was taken out and replaced due to a fault in the PC not HDD but they replaced my HDD too) (my OLD PC had a warranty and did not want to open it up) so i thought of trying to connect it to my custom built PC and it worked fine. I want to offload my steam games to it without reinstalling them I have super fast wired connection (150+ Mbps) but steam takes forever to download games I waited a pretty whole day and then some for GTA V to download

I saw a video a while back I think when a guy was going through his steam directory and he could move the game folder as I remember seeing it in some setting he was going through in the video I looked and can't find any such setting any help


ALSO I will be replacing this HDD with an SSD and give this HDD to my younger brother when I build his PC in the near future

 

[the_crippler]

No worries - it's easy-peasy. Go into your Steam folder and navigate to steam/common, Grab the folders of the games you want to move and simply cut/paste them to the other drive. Then, go into the Steam client in the settings and add that folder as a library. Restart Steam and, boom, there are all your games.

(Occasionally, you'll have to right click the game in the library and verify the game files, but that's the exception and isn't very difficult.)


EDIT: This is the way to move games in bulk - I'd forgotten that Steam now has a built-in way to do it on a one-at-a-time basis. Add the library folder in your options, then right click the game you want to move. Click the “Local Files” tab and click the “Move Install Folder” button.