Moving a game to a different drive

[sirbonneville]

Hey all, i have skyrim on a 5400 RPM and it takes forever to load / fast travel anywhere. i have enough space on my SSD and i want to move it without breaking my saves or mods. what can i do? 

[NinjaJc01]

2 minutes ago, sirbonneville said:

Hey all, i have skyrim on a 5400 RPM and it takes forever to load / fast travel anywhere. i have enough space on my SSD and i want to move it without breaking my saves or mods. what can i do? 

I seem to remember you should do a backup of the game, and then restore it onto the other drive, but I can't remember fully.

[HPWebcamAble]

You should be able to reinstall the game on the SSD. Are the mods supported by the game? You might have some trouble if not.

[sirbonneville]

1 minute ago, NinjaJc01 said:

I seem to remember you should do a backup of the game, and then restore it onto the other drive, but I can't remember fully.

erm..

[sirbonneville]

1 minute ago, HPWebcamAble said:

You should be able to reinstall the game on the SSD. Are the mods supported by the game? You might have some trouble if not.

i want to move it, not reinstall it. 

[HPWebcamAble]

3 minutes ago, sirbonneville said:

i want to move it, not reinstall it. 

Yeah, most games won't work anymore if you do that. You'd have to reinstall it, and just copy over files from the save folder(s).

 

It can be tricky since some games have save files scattered around the file system.

 

What game is it?

[Z-Gaming]

1 minute ago, HPWebcamAble said:

Yeah, most games won't work anymore if you do that. You'd have to reinstall it, and just copy over files from the save folder(s).

 

It can be tricky since some games have save files scattered around the file system.

 

What game is it?

Dude... he said skyrim

READ PEOPLE

[AnnoyedShelf]

3 minutes ago, sirbonneville said:

i want to move it, not reinstall it. 

I'm assuming you already have a steam folder on the other drive yeah? okay so what you're gonna do, is you're gonna cut the game files from one folder to the other, then in steam you're gonna uninstall the game.  After that finishes, choose to install the game, then pick the location where you just dropped the game folder.  Steam will detect that its already installed.  Cheers!

[sirbonneville]

1 minute ago, HPWebcamAble said:

Yeah, most games won't work anymore if you do that. You'd have to reinstall it, and just copy over files from the save folder(s).

 

It can be tricky since some games have save files scattered around the file system.

 

What game is it?

skyrim haha its in the original post 

[sirbonneville]

1 minute ago, AnnoyedShelf said:

I'm assuming you already have a steam folder on the other drive yeah? okay so what you're gonna do, is you're gonna cut the game files from one folder to the other, then in steam you're gonna uninstall the game.  After that finishes, choose to install the game, then pick the location where you just dropped the game folder.  Steam will detect that its already installed.  Cheers!

you're 100% sure it will work and not break anything? 

[AnnoyedShelf]

1 minute ago, sirbonneville said:

you're 100% sure it will work and not break anything? 

Has worked for me for several games in the past, no issues.

[sirbonneville]

1 minute ago, AnnoyedShelf said:

Has worked for me for several games in the past, no issues.

okay, im boutta do it... wish me luck 

[sirbonneville]

9 minutes ago, AnnoyedShelf said:

Has worked for me for several games in the past, no issues.

ok... it says i need 25 gb of space and i only have 12 to spare. however i have no games, and only windows and a few small programs installed on my 120gb SSD. what's taking up so much !? 

[User1868]

3 minutes ago, sirbonneville said:

ok... it says i need 25 gb of space and i only have 12 to spare. however i have no games, and only windows and a few small programs installed on my 120gb SSD. what's taking up so much !? 

Try running CCleaner