Upgrading to SSD, moving steam games

[Brad]

Hi,

Just bought an SSD. The plan is to install Win 7 on the SSD, followed by Steam. I then want steam to access all my game on my old drive without re downloading them etc. Is this possible?

[Hohum]

You won't need to reinstall Steam or any games, just copy the entire Steam directory to wherever you like and create a shortcut to the executable.

[Brad]

So steam currently lives in C:\Program Files\Steam (for example). After installing the SSD I could move Steam to the root of what will now be the D: drive, create a shortcut to that and all will be well? Surely not! nothing has ever been that easy on a PC! Sounds too good to be true lol!

[speedlolita]

Might need to delete clientregistry.blob, but yes it's that simple.

[Brad]

HAMAZE!
Thanks chaps.

[EvilBoris]

I did this the other day, I had to run the EXE for each game straight from the directory, if I tried running the game from the steam library, it would start downloading again.

Runing the EXE first set steam off searching for the files before trying to DL anything

[speedlolita]

Isn't that why you delete the clientregistry.blob?

[EvilBoris]

Maybe it is, I only moved the commonapps folder when I did mine

[SuperBeatBoy]

http://www.traynier.com/software/steammover

This makes things a whole lot quicker.

[Kaido]

See my post on the other SSD thread, you can put *a selection* of games on the ssd if you use mklink, so those ones run fast while the others run slow.