Skyrim on separate SSD as OS?

[yudhi108]

Hello! So, i built myself a good computer but am still a bit of a noob with questions.

I have Skyrim, my OS, and all games Installed on a 500 GB SSD. What I would like to do is install Skyrim on a separate SSD. I can get 125 GB SSD for about 80 bucks right now. Can I install Skyrim on a drive separate from my operating system drive? Can I install different copies on different hard drives if I buy multiple hard drives so I can start them up and have different Skyrim games online. Like can I buy two of the 125 GB SSDs and have two different Skyrim installations on each SSD with different mods and different mod organizers (maybe 1 with NMM and 1 with mod organizer).

Can i do that and will it effect my game performance? Im also thinking of buying another 500gb ssd and doing raid1. EDIT: Not raide1, I mean the other raid that speeds things up by copying onto two drives at once.

Any advice?

Running a gtx780 superclocked, 16gb RAM, i7-4790k, Asus hero 7 motherboard.

[notmyhome]

You'd need to copy the entire Steam folder, but what for? Mod Organizer has got a Profile function built into it.

[deRusett]

Short Answer YES. you can install skyrim into another folder.

 

You just need to install it via Steam.

NOW I am not sure if Steam will let you have multiple installs on the same machine regardless if you have them installed in different folders. Also Saved games aren't saved to the install folders they are saved to your My Documents which you can only set once you don't duplicate it.

 

 

Secondly WHY ON EARTH would you RAID 1 SSD's on a consumer level rig? Use back up software and do a mirror of your installation and back up files to an HDD once a day. Would be a waste of money and resources for a non mission critical system to be running an SSD Raid 1 configuration

[Deleted5770650User]

OP why RAID 1?

RAID 0 is stripe

RAID 1 is mirror

 

Some possible methods for multiple steam copies (or alternate locations), but might not be easy to setup.

 

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The depends on how you pull off multiple copies.

You can have Skyrim on a different drive from Windows many ways.

You can...

Install Steam on the 2nd drive, and use the default install path for games.

You can create a new games library on the 2nd drive and install Skyrim there.

You can install Skyrim to whatever directory steam installs it to, move it to the new desired location. Now use mklink to create a link and run as normal.

 

If you just copy the installation and try to run each copy from two different folders I doubt it will work.

If you want two installed you can create two copies in two folder other then wher steam installed Skyrim and use mklink to change the active install.

For example if Steam installed Skyrim to C:\Steam\SteamApps\common\Skyrim you could move Skyrim to D:\Games\Skyrim

At this point there would be no Skyrim folder in C:\Steam\SteamApps\common\

Now you would run

MKLINK /D C:\Steam\SteamApps\common\Skyrim D:\Games\Skyrim

This will create a link and allow Skyrim to run normally from the new directory.

 

For multiple copies you could create a batch file with something like to change the install. after you move Skyrim to the new location.

For copy 1

@echo off
RMDIR C:\Steam\SteamApps\common\Skyrim D:\Games\Skyrim
MKLINK /D C:\Steam\SteamApps\common\Skyrim D:\Games\Skyrim1

For copy 2

@echo off
RMDIR C:\Steam\SteamApps\common\Skyrim D:\Games\Skyrim
MKLINK /D C:\Steam\SteamApps\common\Skyrim D:\Games\Skyrim2

 

 

 

PS

There are many options for different save profiles.

Edited August 16, 2014 by Guest

[yudhi108]

Thanks so much for the replies. Chevy, what do you recommend? I just ordered a 125gb SSD to add to my computer. Will receive it Tuesday by Amazon Prime.