![]() GOG Galaxy 2.0 is an application that allows you to combine multiple libraries into one and connect with your friends across all gaming platforms, consoles included. Today reddit user Ayren_the_Battlemage wrote a great tutorial on how to install GOG Galaxy 2.0 on the Steam Deck. Through time as more people get the device and developers get more time with it I expect more/easier ways to install applications on the Steam Deck. (Currently under the "About" menu at the top.) This one does allow you to choose an install location.We’re very early in the Steam Deck life cycle so not many applications are compatible at moment. Instead, download Galaxy from their main link on the front page of their website. ![]() ![]() The Galaxy installer you download from a game web page is streamlined to install that particular game alongside Galaxy, and you don't get as many options (including installation location). At a glance you'd think they all link to the same location, the same installer, but they don't. wherever? The trick for this is DON'T download Galaxy from a link on a specific game. How do I install Galaxy 2.0 or move whatever it puts in C:/ProgramData and C:/User into drive/location that I specify, and NOT. ![]() I do not want to let GOG Galaxy put anything into my C drive, (i.e., C:/ProgramData or C:/User.) I want to install Galaxy - and all games and associated data - on and ONLY on my G drive, (i.e., "Game",) which is an external drive that is portable/shared among multiple computers, (i.e., PC and laptop,) and simplifies data sharing, save games and my life. Ktchong: Is there a way for GOG Galaxy 2.0 to allow users to specify the install locations for program and user data? Mklink /j C:\Games\īut you might not even need to worry about junction points as long as you are not trying to create a dedicated savegame partition like I have done, because the Galaxy client's import feature leaves the detected games wherever you had placed them, so all you need to do is to close the client after installing CP77, move its installation folder, start the client, let it remove the game from the list of installed games and then import it back. So after installing a game with the Galaxy client you could just close the client properly to not let it get confused about what you are about to do, move the installation folder to whatever other place you had in mind, open the command line, go the folder where you moved the installation folder and input something like this: It is a symbolic link to a directory, meaning that you can move a directory to from one place to another and then set up a junction point on its original location to point to the new location. My M.2 is only 500GB so I have limited room on there. Or can I change the 'Game installation folder' to C:\ and install Cyberpunk 2077 and leave The Witcher 3 on E:\ where it is now? Would that affect it at all? Would it redownload the game to C:\ ![]() Which is one of my two other game drives. Is it possible to point the folder to install to, to there? For reference my GoG games are on E:\ drive. For Cyberpunk 2077 I want to install it to C:\ which is my M.2 drive. I have GoG Galaxy on one of my older SSDs. REG2012: What is a junction point and how to create one? ![]()
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