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[Drkirby]

This is technically possible. I'm not sure I'd recommend it from a latency POV; having to have all asset loads go over USB2 doesn't sound like a good idea.

It works just fine though. I used to have a copy of TF2 on my portable hard drive that I could play during blocks of downtime in the library.

I would even say that's overkill because it's $25. Just wait for a sale on it.

It is $20.

 

[Sanic]

Too bad the episodes didn't drop in price, as they're the only parts of the Orange Box I don't have.

 

[Drkirby]

I am a bit surprised they don't drop them to $5 also, but they aren't over priced or anything.

 

[JaseC]

I bought Minecraft to support notch/Mojang, but I've yet to play it.

Honestly, I keep forgetting that I have the game.

 

[Shurs]

I bought Minecraft to support notch/Mojang, but I've yet to play it.

Honestly, I keep forgetting that I have the game.

I bought it a few months ago but only started playing it at the beginning of this week.

I had to force myself not to play it yesterday.

 

[sam27368]

I bought Minecraft to support notch/Mojang, but I've yet to play it.

Honestly, I keep forgetting that I have the game.

Exact same boat.

 

[charlequin]

My copy of Windows 7 is coming today. I'm going to partition a portion of my Macbook Pro's HDD for Windows for the sole purpose of playing PC games. Is 100 GB enough room to comfortably keep a rotating library of 10 -20 Steam titles or should I allot more space?

I'd give it more than that; you're going to use up like 20GB just on Windows and other stuff, even if you're really only using the partition to play games. I'd give it 200GB if you can afford it and you want to be keeping a large selection of games installed at any given time. My Steam folder is 75GB (with another 10 gigs in my GOG folder) and that's without anything particularly huge or any modern "AAA" games (besides L4D2) installed.

EDIT: also, ONE OF US ONE OF US

 

[TheExodu5]

My Steam folder is 1.4TB. =\

 

[XeroSauce]

My Steam folder is 1.4TB. =\

-checks Steam folder-

Oh, 300 MB, 1.5GB, 3.4GB, that's not that bad..

-rockets to 144 GBs-

Oh crap, okay, still, it is all my games...wait, it's still going..

167GB. Not bad for a $2000 account.

 

[Echoplx]

516GB here

dat fragmentation

 

[Binabik15]

Question: Can I be gifted a game that´s not available in my region?

Follow-up question: Is AvP still on sale? I can´t see the game from my region.

Last question: Anybody willing to gift it to me? I could even gift you a 5€ game back, like Painkiller Redemption, if you insist

PS: Anybody wanting to get rid of Portal or something else, I´m not saying no to free stuff. My Steam folder is not even 50 gigs *wrings hands dramatically*

 

[Spwn]

Question: Can I be gifted a game that´s not available in my region?

Follow-up question: Is AvP still on sale? I can´t see the game from my region.

Answer for both: Yes. Sorry I can't help with the rest.

 

[ga11agh3r]

I'm without Portal but would really appreciate the gift before release of #2. I plan to buy the PS3 version as you also recieved the steam version so will miss out on the free pre-order bonus copy...

I noticed some were saying how hard it was to offload their copy...

steam user = mgallagher

 

[SapientWolf]

I'd give it more than that; you're going to use up like 20GB just on Windows and other stuff, even if you're really only using the partition to play games. I'd give it 200GB if you can afford it and you want to be keeping a large selection of games installed at any given time. My Steam folder is 75GB (with another 10 gigs in my GOG folder) and that's without anything particularly huge or any modern "AAA" games (besides L4D2) installed.

EDIT: also, ONE OF US ONE OF US

Even 500GB is skimpy. I'm about to fill my 500GB portable HDD up and I only installed the games on my current play rotation. I would buy a 1TB portable drive just for Steam.

 

[Cheech]

You guys really keep all your Steam purchases downloaded? Good God. I tend to nuke games after my first play through, and then just re-download if I want to come back to them. I keep very few Steam games on my PC permanently.

 

[Archie]

You guys really keep all your Steam purchases downloaded? Good God. I tend to nuke games after my first play through, and then just re-download if I want to come back to them. I keep very few Steam games on my PC permanently.

Same. I only have 6 games installed right now.

 

[NaM]

You guys really keep all your Steam purchases downloaded? Good God. I tend to nuke games after my first play through, and then just re-download if I want to come back to them. I keep very few Steam games on my PC permanently.

No, and that's the beauty of steam, you can download and play, then delete some games, download others, no need to keep them all on your hard drive.

 

[faceless007]

I find a certain amount of satisfaction in having as many of my games as I can installed simultaneously.

 

[Barack Lesnar]

You guys really keep all your Steam purchases downloaded? Good God. I tend to nuke games after my first play through, and then just re-download if I want to come back to them. I keep very few Steam games on my PC permanently.

Yep, most of them! I have a 1TB hdd (common and cheap these days) with 705GB free with all these games installed:

+ Crysis 2
+ Bioshock 2
+ Bully
+ Darkspore beta

How much porn do you got on there? You should be able to keep everything installed unless you're on like a 250gb hdd. Even 500gb would work.

 

[Nabs]

I have 100/174 installed. I didn't expect it to be so high. I like deleting single player games once I'm done with them. It feels good.

 

[Cheech]

I find a certain amount of satisfaction in having as many of my games as I can installed simultaneously.

My wife would call this "hoarding". Hahahaha

I like having a very light Windows install. I'm even putting in a NAS this weekend so I can move all my music and crap off my gaming PC, and see how much room just the necessities (windows, firefox, a few games) take up. If it's less than 100 gigs, I may just go SSD.

Yep, most of them! I have a 1TB hdd (common and cheap these days) with 705GB free with all these games installed:

How much porn do you got on there? You should be able to keep everything installed unless you're on like a 250gb hdd. Even 500gb would work.

Hah, no porn, I stream that shit. I have a 640 gig drive on my gaming rig. But it's a WD Caviar Black so it's kind of noisy, and an SSD has a lot of appeal.

 

[Drkirby]

You guys really keep all your Steam purchases downloaded? Good God. I tend to nuke games after my first play through, and then just re-download if I want to come back to them. I keep very few Steam games on my PC permanently.

What else am I going to do with a 2TB HDD?

I have 613 GB of games. That is almost everything installed, with the exception of some MMOs I got in a publisher pack.

 

[Cheech]

What else am I going to do with a 2TB HDD?

I have 613 GB of games. That is almost everything installed, with the exception of some MMOs I got in a publisher pack.

What if the hard drive blows up? I assume you're not going to bother redownloading 600 gigs of games, and I'm guessing you don't have that much stuff backed up.

I like uninstalling games, because that way I can keep my game saves backed up, and not worry about backing up an insane quantity of games themselves. Most games, unfortunately, don't make it easy to back up just the saves. I wish there was a "saves" folder under "My Games" or whatever, where all modern games would keep their saves.

 

[TheExodu5]

Hard drive space is stupidly cheap. Why delete when my $80 2TB drive can fit all the games I want?

Like, today, I decided I want to play through The Witcher when I get home, in anticipation of The Witcher 2. I never deleted it after I stopped playing, so it's ready to go! No need to wait 3 hours for 15GB to download. Saves my measily Canadian bandwidth cap as well.

 

[TouchMyBox]

What if the hard drive blows up? I assume you're not going to bother redownloading 600 gigs of games, and I'm guessing you don't have that much stuff backed up.

Why not? just let that shit run overnight if such a thing were to happen.

Hard drive space is stupidly cheap. Why delete when my $80 2TB drive can fit all the games I want?

And now they're $69.99

 

[Doopliss]

Even 500GB is skimpy. I'm about to fill my 500GB portable HDD up and I only installed the games on my current play rotation. I would buy a 1TB portable drive just for Steam.

Really? I have 63 games installed and my Steam folder is 129GB.

 

[Drkirby]

Depends on the games. Indie games are often less then 200 MB, while major releases will often take 5+ GB.

 

[Archie]

I get overwhelmed if I have a massive list of games staring me in the face. Instead of playing something for several hours, I will dick around with half a dozen games for 10 minutes each and not make progress on anything.

 

[Stallion Free]

I have only 68 installed out of 392. I keep it limited to only a couple singleplayer games I'm working on and multiplayer games. Once I beat a game, I usually delete and download my next planned game. This helps me keep focused on actually finishing games rather than just staring at my Steam list trying to figure out what I'm in the mood for. It's been working really well for me.

My games drive is currently about a quarter full of the 2 TB.

 

[nexen]

I have a full TB of steam games. I just recently started to uninstall some games I'm not going to play. I really cannot stand doing it though so I may go buy a 2TB drive.

 

[TheExodu5]

I have only 68 installed out of 392. I keep it limited to only a couple singleplayer games I'm working on and multiplayer games. Once I beat a game, I usually delete and download my next planned game. This helps me keep focused on actually finishing games rather than just staring at my Steam list trying to figure out what I'm in the mood for. It's been working really well for me.

My games drive is currently about a quarter full of the 2 TB.

Just create a category for the games you're currently working on. Deleting is pointless.

 

[Stitch]

meaning: bad luck, motherfucka, you´re not getting to buy that in your country.

funniest thing is that i have the game because i just bought a key from some website but i can't buy the DLC...

 

[Baha]

I currently have 44 games installed out of 206 which is equivalent to 158GB. This includes maps and any custom mods for practically any valve games I currently have installed. Hell I still have several gigs of l4d maps in my steam folder that still remain after I uninstalled it. This is on a 500GB drive btw.

 

[Stallion Free]

Just create a category for the games you're currently working on. Deleting is pointless.

*sarcasm* Oh shit I never thought of that... *rolls eyes*

I delete because I don't have to worry about hitting a bandwidth cap (must not be nice) and having to reinstall a game works far better for keeping me focused on my backlog than sticking shit in some category does.

 

[MoFuzz]

Steam's success has brought about an epidemic far worse than anything we could have imagined (including GFWL.)

Digital hoarders now roam the electronic wasteland of the internet. Like small gnomish creatures, they lash out at those who would even dare to suggest that we remove the tattered remnants of a shitty indie game purchased at $1.50. The same game that was played all of 3 minutes before it was realized just what a waste of time it was.

This is what we have become.

God help us.

 

[Archie]

Weekend sale: Blood Bowl Legendary Edition for $10

 

[Shurs]

Would it be possible for me to store the Steam games that fall out of my rotation on an external HDD and then pull them into the Windows partition on my laptop -- to avoid latency -- when I wanted to revisit them?

 

[Oreoleo]

I remember the good ol' days of measuring my SIERRA folder after installing HL1/OppFor/TFC/CS etc and thinking how huge 2 or 3 whole entire gigabytes were

How far we've come!

Spoiler

517GB

 

[Stallion Free]

Steam's success has brought about an epidemic far worse than anything we could have imagined (including GFWL.)

Digital hoarders now roam the electronic wasteland of the internet. Like small gnomish creatures, they lash out at those who would even dare to suggest that we remove the tattered remnants of a shitty indie game purchased at $1.50. The same game that was played all of 3 minutes before it was realized just what a waste of time it was.

This is what we have become.

God help us.

What it looks like inside their hard drives:

 

[Oreoleo]

What it looks like inside their hard drives:

With categories: (!)

 

[Goro Majima]

Looks like Monk's pantry or something.

Except the cereal isn't level. Gah.

I keep all the indie games on my HDD since they usually don't take up very much space. I'll end up deleting the huge ones though after I thoroughly beat them (ME2, Borderlands, Dragon Age).

 

[Stallion Free]

With categories: (!)

Because Steam categories organize the data on the hard drive. I defrag weekly, but cutting out all the games that I rarely touched on my HD cut my TF2 map loads in half and I am always the first or second person in. Same goes for a bunch of other games.

 

[Oreoleo]

Because Steam categories organize the data on the hard drive. I defrag weekly, but cutting out all the games that I rarely touched on my HD cut my TF2 map loads in half and I am always the first or second person in. Same goes for a bunch of other games.

That's cool dude, but I'm already the first or second person loaded into a map on TF2 with all of my 190 some odd games installed. Maybe you should get a new HDD.

 

[TheExodu5]

Because Steam categories organize the data on the hard drive. I defrag weekly, but cutting out all the games that I rarely touched on my HD cut my TF2 map loads in half and I am always the first or second person in. Same goes for a bunch of other games.

Uhhh...fragmentation is not nearly as big of an issue as you think. You're overstating things here. Also, deleting games is not going to reduce fragmentation. In fact, deleting games would make fragmentation worse. The only thing it will do is reduce your defrag times.

And if your goal is reducing your load times, join the big boys and get yourself an SSD.

 

[Cheech]

Hah, you guys crack me up. HOARDERS!

So, Blood Bowl. I've looked at that one before kinda sideways, thinking it looks like something I would never play, but just maybe?

I do play Madden, but this doesn't really look exactly like the same thing.

 

[nexen]

This is probably one of the strangest arguments I have ever witnessed on GAF.

 

[erpg]

I only delete games that suck, like Aliens vs. Predator and Far Cry 2.

 

[LocoMrPollock]

So, Blood Bowl. I've looked at that one before kinda sideways, thinking it looks like something I would never play, but just maybe?

I do play Madden, but this doesn't really look exactly like the same thing.

It's pretty heavy TBS and micro-managing with no real single player campaign.

 

[Weenerz]

Weekend sale: Blood Bowl Legendary Edition for $10

Worth the $10?

 

[Stallion Free]

That's cool dude, but I'm already the first or second person loaded into a map on TF2 with all of my 190 some odd games installed. Maybe you should get a new HDD.

Uh, I previously had like twice as many games installed compared to your count, coming out to about 1.5-1.6 TB. Cutting that by down by 2/3 is gonna help load times no matter what kind of drive you have. Nothing is wrong with my HD. And I have no issues with my Steam game install approach so I'm not sure why I am even bothering to defend it.