We recently purchased my son a gaming pc, it has two drives a HDD drive and a larger storage drive. He has used the smaller HDD drive for storing Steam games on and has now filled it so games won't update. We have transferred the games across to the larger drive but the drives look messy with regard to Steam.
Can I uninstall Steam to tidy up the drives, reinstall it pointing at the larger storage drive for storage and does reinstall retain his games when he logs in?
Any help greatly appreciated.
Not 100% sure what you mean..
But I have uninstalled and installed steam multiple times, on multiple machines, and the games purchased through steam will always be available through the same user account.
What do you mean by 'Tidy up the drives'?
Surely this can be done without uninstalling steam..
This is a very useful guide on 'migrating' your steam account and games onto a new HD - [url= http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/migrate-steam-hard-drive-si/ ]Clicky[/url]
Sorry if I have misunderstood the question!
J
Hi
Sorry should have said my son has tried multiple times to sort out and we have multiple folders for steam all over the PC, I wanted to take everything steam off the PC then reload.
You have answered the question thank you, mainly that Steam once reloaded recognises his games under his user account
Again many thanks
S
The default installation directory is a setting. You don't need to reinstall Steam (and it won't make a fig of difference if you do) but uninstalling / reinstalling the games will probably do what you need.
I have no idea what "We have transferred the games across to the larger drive but the drives look messy with regard to Steam." means.
No problem..
Might be worth having a look through that link though, as depending on his games it might take years to re-download everything..
Glad to help!
J
we have multiple folders for steam all over the PC, I wanted to take everything steam off the PC then reload.
Ah, right. So as I said, uninstall the games, set the default install directory, reload. (It's probably possible just to copy them between drives, but I'd need to be in front of it to work it out reliably.)
You have answered the question thank you, mainly that Steam once reloaded recognises his games under his user account
That's pretty much the whole point of Steam.
This should help.
Its easy to move stuff around with Steam.
That should be no bother.
And tell him not to write a mouse macro to improve his combat chances in games - we believe this is why my lad just picked up his first VAC ban this week... 🙄