Install Steam Games In Two Locations?

[BMARX123]

Hi forum,

 

This may be a dumb question that has been answered before, but I haven't been able to find a concrete answer yet myself. I will be getting a laptop with a smallish SSD, and was wondering if it is possible to have some Steam games installed directly on the drive, and others installed on a portable USB 3.0 drive? Would doing this cause any issues, and would I need to reboot the system each time I wanted to play a game off the portable drive?

 

Thanks in advance!

[Godlygamer23]

Steam allows you to create multiple libraries.

[Dougaroo]

I read things wrong too often

kms

[FaZe Booce]

I have like 3 of my games on my SSD and the rest on my hard drive. It works.

[Aniallation]

This may be a dumb question that has been answered before, but I haven't been able to find a concrete answer yet myself. I will be getting a laptop with a smallish SSD, and was wondering if it is possible to have some Steam games installed directly on the drive, and others installed on a portable USB 3.0 drive? Would doing this cause any issues, and would I need to reboot the system each time I wanted to play a game off the portable drive?

Nope it's fine. Worst that could happen is that you'd need to close and reopen Steam if the drive was dis/connected

[Snickerzz]

It can work but i'd advise against it, running games from a usb3.0 drive arent going to run well

 

Instructions:

 

Open Steam

in the top left, click Steam > Settings

in the new window, click "downloads" on the left side

Click "Steam Library Folders" 

in the new window click "Add Library Folder"

Navigate to your USB Drive and add the folder you want the games to be install to. 

 

Then once you have done that and you go to download a game, steam will ask you where you want to install it.