thats not it im talking the game files that contains all model and environment and cutscenes that w
thats not it im talking the game files that contains all model and environment and cutscenes that will help in loading times..
Hthose are on the disk you installed the game to, just make a new steamlibrary on said disk and move the game to it...
Athat wont help, like i have said limited storage in above how i mentioned!
H
Hbut that is how you do it, splitting the game files and "assets" will still do the same thing since 90-95% of most games are assets
Asure, explain how to do it the symlinks to the game files mostly they are assets of cutscene and textures and models and environment??
Hyou dont symlink them, you connect the disk you want, format it the way you want then go to that page in steam settings and add the disk as a steam library
Hsteam will then ask you where you want to install new games
Hlibrary A or library B
ASure, but how that gonna help like i mentioned storage is limited and game way too big for a normal game size to be over 250gb!!!
Aso thats why im asking for symlink explaination how to do it for that problem..
Hyou either remove other games to make space or you get a bigger disk
Agame dont run well in hdd drive so thats why i want to run it on ssd with symlinking the half game data ssd to hdd game directory!!
Hsymlinking the game assets to other disks causes more issues than what you think they solve.
you will end up slowing down loading in the games to whatever the slowest disk is, it can even crash some games
you will end up slowing down loading in the games to whatever the slowest disk is, it can even crash some games
Awell, not my fault the game isn't compressed and 250gb game size
so i gotta make some use of my ssd since hasnt been used in while..
so i gotta make some use of my ssd since hasnt been used in while..
Hwell sadly those are the options
Ai only just want to know how to symlink the game files from main drive to ssd drive directory and game will load from it?
Hi have my shadercace symlinked to an ssd if that helps you freeing up some space. gives some games a tiny loading boost at least
Awell, game doesnt have any shadercaching so i have no other option and buying ssd too expensive due to taxes and inflation issues...
Hwhat game is this btw
Ai cant answer that sorry, just provide me the solution and how to do it thats all..
V
Jwhat are you even playing on Linux thats 250gb
Joh nvm you said you can't tell
Jwelp
Aenough with going around circles avoiding that exact thing im looking for, so help me with symlinking the game files im totally aware of riskes comes with but just making my money worth of drive to be fully used to do the job i seek.
Anormally should be compressed to 160gb minimal lol
Hmy guess would be a cod game or something
Jonly the modern ones could reach even close to that size
Jand they don't run on linux due to their invasive anti-cheat
Hyep
AOh wow you want to do something cursed
Aits not a cod game and its modern game lol
AOk I'll provide you the footgun
VKnowing the game is a basic troubleshooting step.
ADo you know the dir you want to move?
Hopen terminal and type
in most cases you just want
you must already have installed the game and must have moved the source files to their new location
there is your foot gun
man ln to read the manualin most cases you just want
ln -s "$SOURCE" "$DESTINATION"you must already have installed the game and must have moved the source files to their new location
there is your foot gun
APretty much, move the folder you want to your hdd
AThen ln -s <hddloc> <origloc>
AUse absolute paths for both
Ahow that can symlink every files that has different name each one?
Hyou must symlink folders
Hif you need to symlink individual files, have fun typing
AYes you symlinkbthe directory
AAnd hope steam does not f with ut
J* may break when applications try to act on the raw file entry
** steam might delete the symlink while updates
*** will not work if you are using the steam runtime because of containers
** steam might delete the symlink while updates
*** will not work if you are using the steam runtime because of containers
ASteam runtime uses containers now?
Athats painful if im trying to type 90 files name lol
ANo you should graft a dir
AOtherwise it's not worth it
Halso based on this attitude, dont be surprised if people stop helping in the future
