Installing to an external hard drive

AOB · June 18, 2021 at 3:40 AM

I have offloaded my Steam AFS2 install from my laptop and was thinking of transferring it to my desktop computer. But, I have had second thoughts and was wondering if I could download and run the program on an external drive rather than use up my limited HD. The set up I have now suits me but I want to start making scenery so a bigger drive would be good. I have seen where in Steam you can go to settings/steam library folders and add a folder so I am assuming if I buy a new drive then that is where I would point the program to. Is it that easy to do, or are there other things to watch out for

Jet-Pack (IPACS) · June 18, 2021 at 7:50 AM Official Post

You can move the installation folder from within Steam. That's what you should try to do first. You can also manually move it but it's more complicated and you need to tell Steam the new path and probably have to verify integrity of game files.

AOB · June 18, 2021 at 9:39 AM

Thanks for the advice but I am doing a new install to my external F drive and it has been installing for about 6 hours now. What was the path to that move install function in your screen shot? I could not find that earlier. I am wondering if it will impact on FPS if run from an external HD. Should be intetesting to find out when the re install finishes.

Jet-Pack (IPACS) · June 18, 2021 at 10:17 AM Official Post

In your Steam library right click to show properties, then select local files as visible on the screenshot.

Installing to an external hard drive

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