Can I Run Steam Games from 2nd HDD?

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mediatekk

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I built a new system yesterday with a 256gb SSD as main drive and a 1tb HDD in my sata 2. Steam and Skyrim are installed on the SSD. I'd like to install other Steam games on the HDD and have them run from there.

Is it possible to do?
Will there be a performance hit?

I have an liquid cooled i5 4690, GTX980, 8GB RAM

Thank you and I hope this makes sense!
 
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You can have another steam library folder and you can have games installed on a SSD whilst steam is on a HDD.
You just need to create another steam library folder in the settings.
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You will have to move steam as well if you want to do that.

You can't install one game, say Skyrim, on your SSD and the rest of your game library on the HDD.

However if you wish to move your current steam library the way to do it is quite easy.

1: Delete all files in /program files/steam/ folder except steam.exe and steamapps.
2: Move /steam/ folder to the new location
3: Run steam.exe and let it update.
4: It will run off the new location and retain your game library without having to redownload them.

It is recommended you backup the steamapps folder before you do this, though there shouldn't be any issues.
 
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You can do it.
Find game folder (in most cases its located in steam\steamapps\common) and move it to new location on another HDD.
Open command prompt in folder where the game folder was located (open folder in windows explorer and SHIFT+right click on white space then select open command prompt here) and type:
mklink /D GameFolderName X:\path_to_new_location\GameFolderName
Make sure that you replace GameFolderName, drive letter X and path_to_new_location with proper values (just copy&paste from windows explorer address bar)

In the past I had steam on HDD and was using this to move some games to SSD to get better loading speeds. Now I have steam on SSD and use this to move games to HDD to free up some space). It always worked fine for me.
 
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