How To Download Steam To D Drive

To do this in steam click steam settings.

How to download steam to d drive. If steam is pointed to that drive it will treat it as any other you might install games on. Select the downloads category and click the steam library folders button. All future game content will be downloaded to the new folder d games steam steamapps. On the next window that opens click ok and do not change the name of the folder that steam has set. Click add library folder select the drive you want to create the library folder on and click new folder.

Open the choose location for install dropdown and select your external drive. Cut and paste your steam folder to the new location for example. Then choose settings from the dropdown menu. Should i delete the pre install and just download and reinstall on the d drive or is there another way to make sure the huge game files go to the d drive. Open steam and locate to settings downloads steam library folders add library folder.

Select the root of the external drive to install the game and click select. Steam will briefly update and then you will be ready to play. Before i start logging on to steam and downloading my games i want to make sure they go to the 2tb d drive as the c drive would quickly fill up. That will launch a separate window. In this window on the left hand.

On the main install window click next and the game will begin to download. Then choose a different drive and create a new folder. So if there are updates to be downloaded those will be handled and you can move between machines as. Name it and then click ok and select to continue.