Can I download Steam games onto my external hard drive? How can I buy a game on steam and install without downloading it through steam? Richard Liu, PS4 Gamer. Answered Jun 28, 2017 Author has 2.5k answers and 2.2m answer views. Does Steam install games on your hard drive or does it run on their servers? How to install or move your Steam games to a different drive: Running out of room for your games? In fact, I couldn't find an option anywhere in the Steam application for setting or changing the download destination drive. It took a little digging, but I was able to find a way to move my Steam library to my new hard drive.
Valve’s added quite a few quality-of-life improvements to Steam in the past few years, including the ability to install multiple games at the same time, tagging games you already own in the store so you don’t try to buy them again, and adding controller support to every game.
But last week’s update will be particularly welcome news to anyone with multiple hard drives: You can now move a game’s install folder to a different Steam Library folder from within Steam itself.
Prior to now, you had one of two options: Either uninstall the game and reinstall it on a new drive or (smarter) move the game’s install folder manually by drag-and-dropping it into a different Steam Library folder.
The problem is Steam didn’t like this latter option much. After moving an install, Steam needed to re-verify all of the game’s files one at a time to make sure nothing got screwed up. And Steam wouldn’t even register a game's presence if you moved it over from an external drive, instead continuing to show you an “Install” button in the client until after it’d gone through this verification process.
Things are simpler now though. Right-click on a game, select Properties, then Local Files, and at the bottom you’ll see a button tagged “Move Install Folder.” Click it and you’ll be presented with a list of all your available Steam library locations. Easy.
Unfortunately there doesn’t seem to be a way to batch-move a bunch of games yet, so those looking to migrate an entire hard drive’s worth of games are probably better off using the ol’ drag-and-drop method for the time being. Hopefully that functionality is on the way. Still, Steam's newfound feature a good start—especially for those with limited SSD space who are constantly moving installs around.
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I am planning on getting another hard drive so I can install more games, however my home internet is complete trash, it is literally faster for me to take the 2 hour commute to uni, sit around for the 10 minutes it will take to download a 20gb game and come home, than to download it at home.
So I am planning to buy an external hard drive and installing games on it during lectures, would this be a good idea? I don’t mind if it takes more time to load games installed on the external drive, as long as I can play them then I am happy.
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