Installing Railworks on different drives

[mojo12012]

At the moment I have TS2013 installed on a separate SSD, along with all the dlc etc, separate to the Win 7 C: drive, also on an SSD. It's getting rather large. I have read about people installing Steam on different drives, say one for Europe, one for UK, one for US etc. Whilst I can't run to a separate SSD for each continent I could maybe split things up a bit. So, could anyone point me in the direction of instructions on how to do this? I've searched the forums but seem to have missed any posts on how this is achieved. Any attempts I've made to install separate versions on different drives, and then try to update them via Steam has led to them not working. I must be missing a trick somewhere. Also, for those who have managed it, is there a real benefit to keeping separate versions on the go? Cheers.

[peterhayes]

I don't think that splitting TS 2013 into different parts is practically possible.
For example - How would you alter the railworks.exe file so that it opened the correct continent/area. I guess that you could have multiple railworks installations with separate .bat files used to open each discrete part of the game but IMHO it would be a nightmare to keep up to date, and ensure that you had all the correct Assets and Content etc for each area.

Steam (Steam tool Library Manager) already gives a basic option of installing your games on separate drives or separate partitions on the same drive (as gptech intimated on UKtrainsim) You can also use the mklink function or via "STEAMMOVER" to do that if needed. But that only covers complete games on separate HDDs.
Like here http://forums.steamgames.com/forums/sho ... ?t=3103869 and http://www.traynier.com/software/steammover
It may be worth posting on trainsim.com to see if Otto has any ideas on how to that as he seems to have multiple installs? http://www.trainsim.com/vbts/forumdispl ... RW-General

I guess that with SSD prices falling (in some cases <$1/GB) then soon large SSDs will become commonplace, and you can also get some pretty fast conventional HDDs these days that would make loading, etc quite fast.
Regards
PeterH

[PapaXpress]

I don't think that splitting TS 2013 into different parts is practically possible.
For example - How would you alter the railworks.exe file so that it opened the correct continent/area. I guess that you could have multiple railworks installations with separate .bat files used to open each discrete part of the game but IMHO it would be a nightmare to keep up to date, and ensure that you had all the correct Assets and Content etc for each area.
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First off. I agree with Peter. That said, it may be possible to do this using symbolic links. Try it at your own risk.

[mojo12012]

Thanks guys. Will reconsider in view of what you've said. Cheers.

[Toripony]

In your Steam game launch window, go to View, Settings, then to the Downloads+Cloud panel. At the bottom is a buttom labeled Steam Library Folders; it says it "allows installing Steam content on multiple drives". Don't know if/how it works, but I know of no other way to split TS content across multiple drives.

[mojo12012]

Thanks Toripony.