Maybe you have a couple computers and don't want to reinstall several games on each if you'll be playing at home. At the same time, you have a home NAS network attached storage device of some kind, with plenty of space. Can you use your NAS to store Steam games? You can choose network location for Steam downloads if it's been mapped as a network drive. With a couple more steps, everything will work.
You need the network location to have a local disk label C:, D:, Y:, Z:. From this menu, select Add Library Folder. The top drop down will let you select other drive labels. Breaking news: See More. Next Last. Installing games on a mapped network drive I've been wanting to pick up a small SSD for some time now, but I wanted to know how games ran over a mapped gigabit network drive. My main machine is matx and only has enough room for one drive.
I've been monitoring my disk usage and outside of games I use less than 25 gigs for my main apps and windows install. Anyone with some experience on this?
If it's a gigabit network, then the performance hit in games should be fairly minimal. Games run in RAM, so there's really not much hard drive activity outside of loading levels and whatnot. It's a whole different story if you're on a Mbit network though. Hi Phillip Parr, sorry to hear. Click on Change where new content is saved under More storage settings. Select XXX drive using the drop down menu under New apps will save to. How satisfied are you with this reply?
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