andwan0 Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 Does anyone know a good system for management of installed PC games? I don't have a large hard disk and nowaday games are so big (eg. CoD4 takes 10GB, Oblivion... Fallout 3, and more). I find myself uninstalling games and then reinstalling them again. And then when Windows XP goes slow I have a habit of reformating and clean install Windows XP. This ofcourse leads to long processes of reinstalling games.There's a program called InstallRite that is just a file/registry monitor. I usually monitor the registry after an installation of a game and extract/export the relevant registry key lines. I have external backing storage so whenever I ran out of space I move a big game, etc. Fallout 3 to the backing storage. If something happened to Windows XP and I had to reformat & reinstall then I can just import the registry file of that game, and copy the game folder back into C:\Program Files\, etc. This seems to work for most games.Am curious if there's other better easier ways... How do you do yours? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
x-Shadow-x Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 I have a seperate partition for my games, whenever I install a new game, it goes straight to that game partition. I can then export the key and save it in the game dir for when I repartition. If you are using steam, then there is no need to export a key. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
byteme8bit Posted June 17, 2010 Share Posted June 17, 2010 Does anyone know a good system for management of installed PC games? I don't have a large hard disk and nowaday games are so big (eg. CoD4 takes 10GB, Oblivion... Fallout 3, and more). I find myself uninstalling games and then reinstalling them again. And then when Windows XP goes slow I have a habit of reformating and clean install Windows XP. This ofcourse leads to long processes of reinstalling games.There's a program called InstallRite that is just a file/registry monitor. I usually monitor the registry after an installation of a game and extract/export the relevant registry key lines. I have external backing storage so whenever I ran out of space I move a big game, etc. Fallout 3 to the backing storage. If something happened to Windows XP and I had to reformat & reinstall then I can just import the registry file of that game, and copy the game folder back into C:\Program Files\, etc. This seems to work for most games.Am curious if there's other better easier ways... How do you do yours?My setup is a 32gb SSD which holds my OS and some misc programs I use frequently. I have a 1TB partitioned into a 400gb for Media (music/videos) 300gb for Games and currently have ~220gb unallocated for future necessary use. I also have a 640gb notebook drive that I have all of my installer files scripts and programs that do not fit onto my 32gb SSD.Having a drive dedicated to your OS prevents the problem of losing games or other programs on crash. I image my SSD every week to have a current back up. I also don't have to reinstall your games each time you reimage your OS.Hope this helps or gives you an idea of another route to take.-Byteme8bit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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