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Steam has it's own usability issues though. For example it won't let me play a game and download a game at the same time.

I guess this is for performance reasons, but I'm sure my PC can run Braid and do some disk IO at the same time.

I also can't find a way to have different games installed on different partitions/drives. This would be very useful if you have an SSD but can't fit all of your games onto it.

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> I also can't find a way to have different games installed on different partitions/drives. This would be very useful if you have an SSD but can't fit all of your games onto it.

You can do this by moving the directories in question into the other disk, and then creating a junction (symbolic link) from the original location to the new one. On windows 7: mklink /j "path/to/steam/steamapps/common/gamefolder" "path/to/the/other/disk/gamefolder"

Thanks, will try that.

Shame this isn't made a bit easier.

>Steam has it's own usability issues though. For example it won't let me play a game and download a game at the same time.

You can do it manually. Activate the game to play, alt-tab to Steam. Library, view the downloads. The download will be suspended, pause it and then you can unpause it and it'll resume downloading. Alt-tab back to the game.

Lots of work, but it works (or at least I think it did when I last tried it).

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