Shuborno

Somebody's gotta make the yearly licensed cash in titles for those upcoming yearly Star Wars movies. Might as well be the company completely unconcerned with a negative public perception.

I loved Arkham Asylum. It was my favourite game that year.

However, I don't need to pay more money to have the same experience again. I skipped Arkham City, and I'll skip Arkham Origins.

Nice tribute Alex. I miss the widespread enthusiasm around the Rock Band 1 and 2 days. I bought 3 but had lost interest by that point.

I get the PS3/360 versions, but I don't get bumping the Wii U version back.

I thought Rayman Origins didn't do very well on current gen platforms. It seems like they could have build mindshare by having Legends known as one of the best games on Wii U (instead of a sequel to a failed platformer on the other consoles).

@BBAlpert said:

On a related note, I seem to remember reading somewhere that migrating a previous install of Windows 7 to an SSD makes a difference in speed (compared to it being on a regular drive), but also that doing a fresh install allows for some kind of SSD specific setting that makes a much, much bigger difference. Does anyone know if that's the case, or if I just misread something/imagined the whole thing?

Based on what I've been reading, you are not imagining things.

Windows (even crappy Vista which I'm running) is smart enough to know when you've installed an SSD. Windows 7 has native SSD-specific settings. (Something related to "TRIM", which I have yet to research for myself in detail.)

If you're just moving an existing installation to an SSD, I bet you're not getting the pre-configured goodness of Windows 7 setting itself up for you in the SSD context with all of the right settings.

@believer258 said:

@Shuborno said:

Straight copy, as per an official FAQ.

The page basically said:

• take Steam.exe + the steamapps folder and dump them to the new Steam folder on the new drive
• Run Steam.exe to repair itself
• Verify Cache on all of your installed apps

Last step didn't work on several apps.

The purpose of that is moving an entire library from one PC to another, not backing up a single game, which (I suspect) is why yours didn't work as planned.

Perhaps. Maybe those steps assumed that I'd place that new Steam folder at the same location on the same drive on the new machine.

I had some weirdness where I uninstalled Deus Ex: HR, then immediately set to reinstall, and that actually worked fine and didn't download anything new. (I guess the uninstall is not immediate.)

I'm hoping something similar works for Dragon Age should I choose to play it again someday. (Of course no cloud on that one so I'll back up my saves.)

Straight copy, as per an official FAQ.

The page basically said:

• take Steam.exe + the steamapps folder and dump them to the new Steam folder on the new drive
• Run Steam.exe to repair itself
• Verify Cache on all of your installed apps

Last step didn't work on several apps.

@believer258 said:

I need to get a permanent external HDD for Steam backups and stuff. Deleting something and then realizing that you want to play it a few days later is a pain.

This was exactly the scenario I was in with Dragon Age: Origins. It was an absurd 25 GB I didn't want to download again but also didn't want on my drive.

Unfortunately barely any of my non-Valve games transferred properly to my new HDD. When I tried to "verify cache" (whatever that means) Steam just sat there. I had to delete and reinstall a few games (Tribes, Super Monday Night Combat, Super Meat Boy, etc.)

@Hitchenson said:

I've practically filled up a 1.5TB HDD with Steam. That's what having your whole library installed does.

I looked at the installed games list and decided that if I hadn't played something in a year I wasn't going to play it.

Unfortunately I came to the same realization about most of the games I didn't have installed as well!

@rentfn said:

You have inspired me good sir!! I had about 50 games installed. Just deleted half of them!!

Yeah, I wiped a ton because I hear a less-full SSD is a better-performing SSD and I only got a 120 GB'er (since I was trying to make this a minor cost-effective upgrade).

The big wipe was dumping the 25 GB Dragon Age: Origins install out to my external HDD.

Anything with Steam Cloud I was comfortable just wiping out. I think I might make a new rule for myself where I only buy games with Steam Cloud moving forward so I don't have to worry about manually managing saves when I wipe the games off my drive.