Would it be alright to preinstall my games before I build my new pc in a few days and then move the HDD there to save time?

[IdiotPenguin]

I was just wondering if it will cause any issues because my hardware will be different (probably not but just making sure lel) I’m reinstalling origin and steam onto my new hard drive from my old pc currently 

 

Ive never had multiple drives so excuse this dumbarse question 

[Guest]

You can move steam and uplay games to a different drive and then just resync them, no need to redownload.

 

On Uplay there is a button "locate installed game"

And on Steam in settings there is a "add a new steam library folder"

On origin IDK, i dont use it.

[Looting]

I have always kept my game libraries on a separate drive so if I had to Start Fresh I wouldn't have to spend a bunch of time re-downloading all those games. I have never had an issue doing it this way even when I upgraded up to a Ryzen system. After Steam, Orgin, Battlenet, etc etc is installed all you would need to do is point the client to that folder.

[IdiotPenguin]

1 minute ago, Some Random Member said:

You can move steam and uplay games to a different drive and then just resync them, no need to redownload.

 

On Uplay there is a button "locate installed game"

And on Steam in settings there is a "add a new steam library folder"

 

1 minute ago, Looting said:

I have always kept my game libraries on a separate drive so if I had to Start Fresh I wouldn't have to spend a bunch of time re-downloading all those games. I have never had an issue doing it this way even when I upgraded up to a Ryzen system. After Steam, Orgin, Battlenet, etc etc is installed all you would need to do is point the client to that folder.

Unfortunately I’ve already reset my windows and deleted everything but I have a few days ahead of me and I’m not inpatient so redownloading the games is fine and I don’t regret it

 

reset cuz I can give this old pc to my parents for web browsing and YouTube lel

[chiller15]

Steam - Yes and it's very easy to do so. Simply add the new drive into the existing system and use Steam to create a new library on that drive and then install games to that new library location.

 

Origin - More difficult (though I haven't had to do this for over a year now). The last time I did this, Origin wasn't clever enough to recognise the existing files and would just redownload everything. Not great in the era of 100GB games. However according to this EA forum post, that may have been resolved: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues/Origin-Moving-Games-to-Another-Hard-Drive-or-System/td-p/5776562.

If not then; take a copy the contents of the Origin games installation folder and copy them to the new drive. When you're done configuring your new PC, reinstall Origin and specify the games install location. Then press download on the game(s) you are going to reinstall. It will start downloading the files. As soon as 1MB has been downloaded, pause the download. Then exit Origin completely (make sure it isn't running at all). Then move the Origin games folder you copied earlier to the new install location, overwriting existing files. Launch Origin and it should then detect the files or think it's already downloaded them.

[Guest]

3 minutes ago, IdiotPenguin said:

 

Unfortunately I’ve already reset my windows and deleted everything but I have a few days ahead of me and I’m not inpatient so redownloading the games is fine and I don’t regret it

 

reset cuz I can give this old pc to my parents for web browsing and YouTube lel

Well on 1MB/s i definitely wouldnt want to download my library of about 300gb again.

[IdiotPenguin]

1 minute ago, Some Random Member said:

Well on 1MB/s i definitely wouldnt want to download my library of about 300gb again.

I only have about >150gb at most of games and I’m at 2mbs usually

[paddy-stone]

2 minutes ago, IdiotPenguin said:

I only have about >150gb at most of games and I’m at 2mbs usually

Holy shit, I would die at that speed... haven't had that low of a speed since around 2002 IIRC (on 70Mbit/s now). I'd definitely keep my games on an external drive and copy to new systems if needed, also on NAS if you have one.

[IdiotPenguin]

3 minutes ago, paddy-stone said:

Holy shit, I would die at that speed... haven't had that low of a speed since around 2002 IIRC (on 70Mbit/s now). I'd definitely keep my games on an external drive and copy to new systems if needed, also on NAS if you have one.

My internet is pretty shit as it also disconnects easily from storms and just randomly sometimes but I’ve gotten used to it

[paddy-stone]

2 minutes ago, IdiotPenguin said:

My internet is pretty shit as it also disconnects easily from storms and just randomly sometimes but I’ve gotten used to it

 

I guess it's one of those things, where you don't miss what you've never had.

[IdiotPenguin]

2 minutes ago, paddy-stone said:

 

I guess it's one of those things, where you don't miss what you've never had.

This internet used to give me depression but now it’s more stable since I’m using a Powerline adapter