Questions About Steam and New Windows Installation.

[Bodhisatwa_Techie99]

So I have more than 200 GB of Steam games installed which I play now and then.
And I want to Reinstall Windows. All the Steam games are in the D Partition.
So if I Reinstall windows without Touching D Partition, will my games still work?
I just don't want to download all those games now.
Same Goes for Origin and U-Play.

 

[jetfighter545]

Yes, the games will work. What version do you have and what are you upgrading to? When upgrading to win10 it won't wipe anything of yours. Don't worry. I did the same thing a while ago, and nothing happened to the games. If you feel insecure about this, just temporarily remove the games drive while you are upgrading your windows.

 

[Bodhisatwa_Techie99]

Yes, the games will work. What version do you have and what are you upgrading to? When upgrading to win10 it won't wipe anything of yours. Don't worry. I did the same thing a while ago, and nothing happened to the games. If you feel insecure about this, just temporarily remove the games drive while you are upgrading your windows.

I have Win10...Im gonna reinstall that.....................

 

[jetfighter545]

OK, nothing bad should happen to your games. As previously said, you can unplug ur drive if ur really nervous.

 

[James Mason]

You may have to reinstall steam and tell it to look for the games in the same place they are, it will take a while, but steam will rediscover all the game files and not need to redownload them.

Origin and Uplay are also similar, just have to tell them to either install to where the game already is or tell them to look for games where they already are.

You may need to restart your computer a few times to get it them to recognize it.

 

[jetfighter545]

No....... You just direct steam to the folder you want.

 

[namelessonez]

IMHO, you 'will' need to reinstall the games, irrespective of whether you unplug your drive or not.

Reinstalling will basically mean that you're wiping out your windows completely, including the registry (which has the extension files for your games, even if they're installed under a separate drive) and all connected files.

You may be able to reclaim your game progress for your steam and origin games (provided they're cloud synced).

Anyways, these are my views. Let us know how it 'actually' pans out.

 

[James Mason]

IMHO, you 'will' need to reinstall the games, irrespective of whether you unplug your drive or not.

Reinstalling will basically mean that you're wiping out your windows completely, including the registry (which has the extension files for your games, even if they're installed under a separate drive) and all connected files.

You may be able to reclaim your game progress for your steam and origin games (provided they're cloud synced).

Anyways, these are my views. Let us know how it 'actually' pans out.

Your opinion is wrong.

For steam games you don't have to reinstall them, you just have to have the files in the steam library and it will take care of that.

But also @ OP, your save files might actually be located on the C: drive in your Documents folder, because sometimes games put saves there.