Dump the Steam?

[MrMike]

I recently bought RW2 through steam and was wondering if there is a way to use this simulator with out going through steam every time? Honestly I thought Steam was going to download me the installer. I have a separate HDD I use for my sims (MS-FSX) and really would like to have control over where this is installed (C drive is tight enough as it is).

From what I can see tracking the paths from the start menu that RW2 isnt even on the computer??? If it is I cant find the thing to even move it manually.

Any ideas or options?
Thanks
Mike

[micaelcorleone]

Normally Railworks (and any other Steam game) is located in C/programes/Steam/Steamapps/Common/Railworks.

Currently you cannot install games bought over Steam on another drive than the the one where Steam is installed on.
However, they work on a feature that will allow you to do so in the future.

[MrMike]

Wow, what a bummer. Thank you for the reply Michael.

[PapaXpress]

Does this mean that you could install steam to a different drive, and thus your games would be also out of C:\Program Files?

[MrMike]

I have several hard drives. One for media and ITunes, one strictly for sims (mainly FSX), One for 3D applications (DAZ, GMAX, Hexagon, Blender, and 3Ds Max) and one for "Other Gaming" (Rift, WOW, so on and so forth). I also have a back up drive that hold images of each of the other drives, so if I lose one bringing back into full swing is less painful then reloading every thing

Some bonus to this is faster speeds, easier back up, simple organization.

Steam never gave me the option on which drive to install it, it just did what it wanted. I dont really care for that. I may contact them and see if there is a work around for this, my C drive is small and cramped, I want keep as much stuff off it as possible.

[ATSF3814]

Steam never gave me the option on which drive to install it, it just did what it wanted. I dont really care for that. I may contact them and see if there is a work around for this, my C drive is small and cramped, I want keep as much stuff off it as possible.

That's strange. It never did that when I installed it. I too have a pretty cramped C drive so I installed it on my big 2 TB H drive. Maybe try reinstalling Steam and if the problem persists, contact support and see if they can give you a solution.

[micaelcorleone]

To my best knowledge it was always possible to install the steam application on any drive of your system (only on one at the same time, of course). Then this is also, if you want it or not, the location of the games bought on or that require Steam.

A week ago I've read that they (at Steam) want to implement an option in the future that allows you to install a certain Steam Game to another drive than your "Steam drive".
For example, one could install Steam to C and then download and install Railworks to D.

Hope this brings clarity.
Best,
Timm

[MrMike]

I just Nixed the whole thing and reinstalled and same thing. It just installs both the steam client and RW2 where ever it sees fit. I tried manually moving RW2 but steam has a .dll in there to prevent this from working once its moved, probably to ward off hacks/torrents. I guess I'm stuck with it. You could easily put it where ever you want if it wasnt for that dll.

[PapaXpress]

Maybe this will work.
https://support.steampowered.com/kb_art ... -tdlc-0426

[Hawk]

I do have Steam installed on C drive, but not in the Program Files directory. I have it installed in a directory I created.
I'm running XP, for whatever that's worth.

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[MrMike]

HAHAHA Looking at that right now actually. Funny they say you get the option to pick a drive but man I swear I just installed this thing twice and never got that. I'll move it manually as per their instructions. Thanks for going out of your way Papa to help, its really appreciated.

**Edit Hawk, looks like we posted at the same time. Thanks for the heads up, I like how you have that set up as well.

[MrMike]

Maybe this will work.
https://support.steampowered.com/kb_art ... -tdlc-0426

THIS worked. Thanks for the help guys.

[MikeK]

Here is the method I use to temporarily move steam games that I play frequently to my small SSD:

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/howtos ... tem_mklink

It works well since I don't have enough space on my faster SSD for all my games at the same time.

[Kali]

I was about to post about symbolic links; as far as Vista/7 is concerned they're exactly the same as files, so steam will update your install even if it's actually on another disk.

[jamesphh]

Currently Steam is installed on my E drive. Been so long I can not remember the install options provided.