I recently won a smaller 15000rpm Velociraptor Hard Drive and I think I'd like to move XIV and another game or two to it. I know how to move the files and such, but I'm wondering if there's a way for keep XIV from writing to my boot drive which is a SSD. I'm ok with it writing some files I suppose, but it annoys me that screenshots and updates are saved on that drive.
My current setup has XIV installed on a non-boot drive, but it's always writing to C: for updates and such.
I know how to force other programs to keep away from my boot disk, but I can't figure out how to do it for XIV. The rest of my SE PC games behave and keep all their baggage on the appropriate drive.
Thanks for any assistance
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Could you symlink the C:/<whatvever>/Games/<SE> folder to your HDD? That is, create a symbolic link of whatever directories the game wants to create on the OS drive (SSD) and have it point to the HDD?
The game will think it's writing to C:/ where in reality it would be going to your D:/ or whatever it may be.
This is definitely a hack in absence of any other solution, but it should work.
The game will think it's writing to C:/ where in reality it would be going to your D:/ or whatever it may be.
This is definitely a hack in absence of any other solution, but it should work.
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