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Got a bit of a puzzler with my PC.
I had my C: partition on a blog standard HDD and all my programs and steam+games resided there and all was good.
I then the other day bought an SSD and reinstalled Windows and most programs on that with it becoming my new C: partition.
As my SSD is only 128GB and I now have a spare TB or two kicking around I decided to create a new partition (F: for completeness) and installed Steam+games there.
Now no games will load. HL2 gets past the Valve splash screen and hangs on the loading screen, Dragon Age starts to load and then crashes to desktop, Skyrim will start to load a saved game and then hang.
I have set all the folder permissions on everything to give full access to all users, uninstalled and reinstalled steam+games etc and still nothing.
Last night I installed the main Steam app on C: and the games on F: still nothing.
Anyone got any suggestions before I start suffering from severe Skyrim withdrawal?
Is this a fresh install of windows, steam and games?
You can move steam folders around a couple of ways, you either drop the steam folder onto the new drive and delete everything except the steam.exe and the steamapps folder and then run steam.exe.
Or you can copy the steamapps folder to another drive and then in steam add that as an addtional library and then select a game to download. Tell it to download to the location where it already is and it should find the files already there.
Both methods work well but a few games do have some files in odd locations in your user directory, occasionally this causes a problem like losing save game files etc.
If you have definitely installed all your steam bits correctly have you installed your graphics card drivers etc. properly?
The other thing to consider is, when you were poking about inside your case did you inadvertently pull out any cables? Many modern graphics cards have extra power leads, they might be fine in windows without them but the moment they try to spin up to perform 3D work the system could freeze or crash.
Thanks BEB - complete new install. I like a clean start when doing this kind of work.
The graphics card is a good shout and not something I thought of although I have experienced just this pain in the past (an old build needed the Molex connection to the motherboard).
Will have a rummage when not under the influence (have made that mistake before too!).
Will reinstall the drivers also just to rule it out.
Thanks Guys
Graphics card driver did the trick but have installed everything on c: for now and will follow your link to move everything Drac.
Now to upgrade this god awful keyboard!