76mm Posted August 27, 2018 Share Posted August 27, 2018 (edited) My computer's C drive is almost full, while I have massive space on my D Drive, so I want to install all of my Battlefront games to my D Drive. However, when I went to install CMBN, I did not get any choice at all for where I get to install the game. I think this is the only program I've tried to install in the last 15 years that did that--is there any way to install onto a D drive (which is in my computer, not a network drive)? I searched for this topic, but did not find any threads... [EDIT]: Weird, I just went back and tried to re-install again, and this time I seem to be able to install to the D drive, at least so far... Edited August 27, 2018 by 76mm 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyD Posted August 27, 2018 Share Posted August 27, 2018 This isn't an 'official' response but I install the game EXE folder to my peripheral HD (G drive) but keep the Combat Mission documents folder in Documents. I've never had a problem, it actually seems to improve load times and framerate a bit. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sburke Posted August 27, 2018 Share Posted August 27, 2018 I haven’t installed to c drive in years. I have a couple drives for different functions and have BF games on all of them. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
76mm Posted August 27, 2018 Author Share Posted August 27, 2018 Thanks, I've gotten it working, not sure what the problem was the first time. Maybe something to do with spending most of the day uninstalling and reinstalling about twenty games, dunno... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PIATpunk Posted August 29, 2018 Share Posted August 29, 2018 also note you can move your system documents folder to a different drive, so if you've got heaps of mods and your C drive is getting full, this is a good option. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
76mm Posted August 29, 2018 Author Share Posted August 29, 2018 11 hours ago, PIATpunk said: also note you can move your system documents folder to a different drive, so if you've got heaps of mods and your C drive is getting full, this is a good option. Sorry, how do you do this? I actually have plenty of space on my C drive, but would rather put my documents folder onto my NAS, which is backed up regularly... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PIATpunk Posted August 29, 2018 Share Posted August 29, 2018 https://www.dummies.com/computers/operating-systems/windows-10/how-to-change-the-location-of-user-folders-in-windows-10/ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
76mm Posted August 30, 2018 Author Share Posted August 30, 2018 Thanks, that very helpful and interesting...but two more questions: 1) any idea if I would need to re-install the games which use files in these directors for the games to work? Having just reinstalled all of my games to the D drive, I'm not keen to repeat the process for the games which store files in the Documents folder... 2) I I put these directories on my NAS, any idea if it would impose a significant performance hit? I'm thinking that usually files stored in these locations are accessed when loading/saving games rather than while playing them, but wanted to see if anyone has a better idea? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PIATpunk Posted August 30, 2018 Share Posted August 30, 2018 1) no need to reinstall. You are effectively creating a symlink for your folder on a different drive but the game will still be happy. 2) You mileage may vary here; my suggestion would be to buy an internal SSD for files you require rapid access to, for best speeds. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
76mm Posted August 30, 2018 Author Share Posted August 30, 2018 Great, thanks again for the super-helpful info. Will try to tackle this tomorrow! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
76mm Posted August 30, 2018 Author Share Posted August 30, 2018 @PIATpunk, mission accomplished, so far no problems, thanks again for your tips! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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