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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ก.ค. 2024
- This is a technique I use ALL THE TIME to be able to access my downloaded steam games on multiple PC's. If you've ever wondered how to do this, now is your chance to find out!
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Choosing 'X' as the drive letter because it sounds extreme...
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@@gtijason7853I used to toss hot dogs down hallways but I switched to eggplants they're interesting shape makes them roll down the hallway in a funky way. Whoever talks is there's the farthest wins.
I have so many external USB storage devices I've been using this little trick for awhile to keep large games off my drive, but I hadn't considered an external NVME drive. Great info!
This will be very handy to show people how to add steam libraries from other drives. Thank you
Long workday so thanks for literally 10+ chuckle/laugh out louds...oh and you reminded me I need to setup a Steam drive like this.
fantastic how to video im sure this will help a tone off ppl thanks TD
I just removed my 512 giggle byte NVME to upgrade to a 2TB. I planned to do this because I have devices like the Rog Ally and a laptop that I'd like to play my main Desktop games off of. You're a true wizard for sharing this to others that don't know this works! 🙏
Great video with concise, precise and very relevant information as I have a few PC's and GPU's that need testing in games and an external SSD as a game library is perfect. Thanks for sharing this. Liked and subbed.
Great vídeo, please bring us more of this kind of project.. "DIY" ✌🏼🤓🎮
Best tutorial ever❤️❤️
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Thanks for sharing your vast knowledge with those of us who are stuck in the stone ages, using almost 10 year old computers. ~$100 for this setup is actually really reasonable, compared to having to buy a new MB + internal SSD.
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I love your videos. Please make a tutorial in Moonlight/Sunshine.
You did that thing... hope your vacation is going well.
Thanks buddy. We played Shredders Revenge on the deck. BIG hit with the kiddos!
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Asus makes a really good rugged enclosure. The TUF Gaming A1. It's drop tested and water resistant. It's the one I like.
You could alternatively make backups of your steam games on the nvme ssd. That way it will work the same as a fresh install on your hard drive.
Thank you.
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I have unlimited Google Drive through g-suite and my college account from like 10 years ago and use it. It has more than 40tb's of games and emulator stuff on it and works as any other external drive as long as I have an internet connection. Even if I didn't, I could always mark what I wanted to be offline. I get 1GB a second in terms of speed as it maxes out as fast as my ISP and Google has no data limit cap. Steam is installed onto it and I can stream huge games like Cyberpunk without ever having them installed or using local storage.
That is a freaking awesome setup. Wish I had decent internet, but I'm at the mercy of Starlink :/
Warning some games don't have local saves and some games have cloud saves while others don't
Good point!
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Lovely!❤ I've never considered this kind of solution... Just a question: can you have both Steam games and Batocera in the same external drive?
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I also have slow internet speeds as I live in the countryside. I have a windows drive and an ext4 linux drive which I use for different pcs. It's also how I transferred most of my games to my steamdeck via a dock. When I'm at work I can use the 5G hotspot on my mobile to download other things. No online gaming for me lol!
I learnt to knit when i was 5 years old, can I still implement this?
This is a really good tutorial for multiple Windows pc's around your home. But what if we have linux systems? Especially with SteamOS. Won't the NTFS format create conflicts?
I just saw that Russ from Retro Game Corps posted that emulation station is now on android. So I think he’s going to tell us “ Yeah man, you wanna do it!”
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Many thanks for this idea. I say that because I bought a GPU & NVMe combo package back when we where were getting sh4fted with GPU prices (Grrrr you miners).
It never occurred to me to use the NVMe drive in an encloser since I had no motherboard slots.! - Yeah.....more money than sense!
Hey, I was an IT pc builder 20 years ago, Tech today, 'you guys don't know you're born!'. xxx
Hi. I'm new to Steam. When I add the games to an external drive, can I play those games with retroarch or only with Steam? Great review.Thank you.
very useful guide thanks. There is only one question left, game saves are also transferred and immediately become available on another PC?
Yup, your game saves are on the drive.
Do you need to reconfigure your games' settings each and every time you move the drive to a different system or does that somehow stay with the system and not follow the drive?
I have like 5 internal game drives an 3 of them are nearly maxed out with inexpensive games I've obtained over a couple of years of my gaming PC ownership. I was nervous the first time I installed to a USB drive because I've been so used to Playstation being tight with game installs from PS3 (the drive you install games on is locked to _that_ PS3 and any other system will want to erase it, _including_ another PS3 you actually own. At least they changed that with PS4 and PS5... kinda. Still limited to how many you can own, unlike PCs.)
So does game progress and saves move over to the X:, er the X-TREME drive as well? Or does it vary by game?
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Isn't transfer speeds a concern? Or are modern external storage options and IO now fast enough to do this?
Dear smart and handsome Dweeb,
The game I play the most, RimWorld, uses Steam Workshop to download mods. Assuming I don't copy the mod files manually, will I have to redownload my mods each time I disconnect the SSD?
Thanks for the video.
Thanks Dweeb! Can a you still go offline in Steam after you've set this up? When moving the drive to another computer does Steam require you to sign in online before using the drive? Example: I have a mini PC that I have "achieved" Steam games on that I keep offline all the time as sort of a back up. If I set up a drive like this can I follow your prosses without connecting my mini PC to the internet?
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can you have steam on the drive so that you dont have to install anyting at all one the pc you plug it into=?
Does it have to be formatted a certain way? (Or can this be readable in Windows for also being a portable retrobat drive too?
Yeah any formatting that windows recognizes will be fine. You can definitely also put retrobat on it!
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Is it better to get one of these enclosure things and an m2 or just a usual external ssd?
From what I've read online, one reason external SSDs exist is because they have been designed specifically to deal with the heat generated when it's operating. Internal SSDs and enclosures should work fine provided the enclosure can deal with the heat.
My nvme reader board is 5$ type c 10gb/s amazing cheap
If you tried to do with with an internal (not your C drive) drive, would it still work? Like a SATA SSD (on system lacking fast USB)? Wait.. Windows might encrypt all internal rives, and that would be an issue if moved.
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What about Steam LAN Game Transfers?
1:02 turn on local transfer ???
Will this work on steam deck too
Quick question. If I have a game installed on my main PC, Can I just copy my install files to the external drive rather than moving via Steam? PS I'm a wizard but not a very good one.
Yes you can move the files over, but there is another file you will need to get called appmanifest (in the steamapps directory). Each of those appmanifest files corresponds to a game, and the number at the end of the file is the game's number on the Steam store. So just make sure to get the appmanifest for the game as well as the game files in the 'common' directory. Otherwise you will have to reinstall the game, although you probably won't need to re-download it because it will detect and verify the files, but if you get the appmanifest at the same time you won't have to do that step.
@TechDweeb thanks for the quick reply. Im going to set up an external drive for taking to friends or work (if it's a slow day 😂) love ur videos, keep them coming.
I didn't even know this was possible.
A doubt if I have moved games to the drive from a account and use it with a pc with a different account without that game will it work??
@@danielwaters3188 I mean you didn't buy the game in the different account
Link to Beikell enclosure please…
Will this really hold All of my games?
Kinda sad there was no mention of USB A-Holes for the USB A plug to go into at 4:03
it worked on windows but on linux mint i have to go in to the settings and add the drive every time... so annoying
This is a great guide unfortunately my games are divided along steam, gog, epic and others.... Steam makes the integration easy but doing it on epic is like pulling teeth 😂
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Damn my mom strikes again... Well played tech dweeb well played...
Has anyone tried this on ChimeraOS? Or will this only work on Windows?
Same method will work with Chimera OS! However you can't bring the drive back and forth between windows and linux PCs
I've been doing this for a while. Too bad Gamepass doesn't have this feature.
I'm surprised how small they can make it how bizarre
you do it wrong. i write how to do it 2 times and it gets removed it wont start if you just connect the drive bvecause windows is diffrent. only way to do it is to transfer the game over lan and backup restore always fails so you need 2 pc or a virtual machine. or you have to scan the game to configure it to other machine installation so it start only way to connect drive library is to clone windows and use samefiles as downloaded
Nope! Sorry but that's not true. I did it exactly as I showed in the video, and I've done it multiple times like this, and it works as I showed. Give it a try! And don't worry about the typos. I make typing mistakes when I'm upset too :.(
@eeb well my problem is that windows can not start any games if i did not verify intregrity. so i use local network transfer in steam. or i have to right click on 800 games. to just scan it to replace the main executable.. and system restore usally breaks my games so i i have to rescann intregity after the games have been scanned and reconfigured to that windows.. it needs to be cracked in order to start on any windows if its not downloaded or transfered. even if just connecting steam drive to another pc.. and this is just because windows is diffrent than donwload source in installation 2.if its not cloned. and its the truth have been using my steam account for 16 years now.. also did try backup restore and that did not work. some titles is not combatible and it has bugs like donwloading transfering never finnishes. and the games need to be installed to start in offline mode and launched once. so i buy a huge drive and use connectify hotspot and just connect them togheter and transfer them if you have slow speed i have 18 tb drive and have used 13 tb and it takes months on 20 mbit locally a week and they dont always transfer locally if i dont use insternett on 1 computer in another in connectify hotspot and this is correct way
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Who's mom was in the picture? 🤔
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Where do you live that you internet is so bad 😭😭 mine is 700mb in the midle of nowere in Brasil. And it is so cheap, just 20$
Good video, but it was ruined with the immature "your mom" joke. A good TH-camr shouldn't insult the viewers, especially when it comes to people who have a dead mom.
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