hard drivesteamsystem requirements
I have a lot of games on Steam, far more than my puny hard drive can hold at once. However, in the future I may want to store all of them locally.
Is there any way to figure out about how much hard drive space I'll need to install all of my Steam games, including the ones that I don't currently have installed, without sitting down with a calculator and manually adding everything up?
Move the subfolder /steamapps/ in a safe place before uninstalling Steam, then do the following steps:
/steamapps/ backup to the new /steamapps/ subfolderAt this point Steam should find all games without any other action; in the worst case, where Steam does not detect some games as installed, just reinstall them and the game will be downloaded and ready in few seconds/minutes because it only need to validate the game content cache.
In the newer version of Steam, go to LIBRARY
and in the second block ("shelf") under "WHAT'S NEW", set dropdown to "ALL" and "SORT BY" "Size on Disk".
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Not to bump an old thread unnecessarily, but I just finished building the tool I think you're looking for:
MySteamGauge.com
Your profile has to be public and it's not perfect, but should give you a pretty close idea of what kind of hard drive space you'll need to install your entire collection (or on multiple drives, per Steam's new feature to specify install location).
Cheers!
[Edit] Just realized a screencap might be nice: