Steam and the entire library of games from VALVE (not counting third party games) should only suck up 20gigs of space maximum, HOWEVER when you start to play Counter strike or Team fortress online your drive will start to fill up with custom content from multiplayer servers. I have seen a counter strike install grow as large as 50gigs after years of playing online. EDIT: for the noobtastic people out there, the custom content downloads are on demand when you join a custom map server and are not mandatory files you can keep around.
The new Steam for Mac update now also includes a new chat system which is more modern and up to date. It is now more flexible and also provides features like group chat built for gaming.
Infact if your handy with bash you can make a script that scrubs counter strike of all none valve files inorder to keep your size down. Move your steam folder to the desired location open up terminal and get ready to use your mac like a man (sorta).
Type in 'cd /Users//Documents/' (the home location of 'Steam Content' by default you can do this by draging your documents folder into the terminal window after typing 'cd ' (note the space) but we are doing things the manly way. Press enter and type 'ln -s /paths/to/Steam Content Steam Content' NOTE THE SPACES. Yet again you can do this by drag and drop just note that there is a space without the escape character in between the folder your linking and the link its self. This should help if you have any questions about procedure. Click to expand.Video is hard to see. Can't make out text entered in Terminal window. Also can't full screen it.
Also, your directions are a little hard to follow. Re-wrote them to be a bit clearer:. Move the 'Steam Content' folder from your Documents folder to where you want your steam content stored (in this example, /Games). If you want, rename the folder (for example, Steam). Open another Finder window to your User folder.
You should have two Finder windows open: One open to your new steam content location (/Games) and one open to your User Folder. Open Terminal. Type.
Code: ln -s /Games/Steam /Users//Documents/Steam Content. Press Enter. Open your Document folder. There should now be a alias folder named 'Steam Content'.
Double click-it. The Finder window should now be at your new steam content folder (/Games/Steam). If not, delete the 'Steam Content' alias in your Documents folder and try again from step 6 I used to work tech support for a research company and had to write stuff up like this for less tech-savy users in the office. Here's hoping the way I wrote it makes it easier for less techy Steam users to understand. If I made it more confusing, sorry. Click to expand.I don't think any single file will be bigger than 4gb, although I've seen it on WoW.
Anyway, thanks for the tips guys, but since my default 'home' folder location has already been linked to an optibay HDD I think I'm good. I just googled to find out where the games install to and found this thread =) great! I found out they moved the folder to application support file under library. Since I've moved my default home location via sys preference - accounts - advanced options it's automatically on the extra drive. I'm good too now.
I feel like I'm about to explode! I honestly have tried everything to the letter that has been described here, so I'll post up what I think I should be adding into Terminal in hope that someone more able is able to qualify that what I am doing is indeed correct, or not. The directory that at present my Steam Directory is located in: /Users/appleadmin/Library/Application Support/Steam The acutal directory I want my Steam Downloads/Content to is: /Volumes/HITACHI/Steam So in Terminal I have been typing the following: ln -s /Users/appleadmin/Library/Application Support/Steam /Volumes/HITACHI/Steam But when I do this and I subsequently load up STEAM again and then try to download it is still directing those downloads to the wrong drive - IE with only 32gb's of free space left. Where as the other one, /Volumes/HITACHI/Steam has like 170gb's of free space.
Please, please help if you can - appreciation in advance for anyone who has pity on me. Click to expand. Your example: -s /Users/appleadmin/Library/Application Support/Steam /Volumes/HITACHI/Steam Guide example: MyMac: jharris$ ln -s /Volumes/WDMac2/Steam Content /Users/jharris/Library/Application Support/Steam It's not working because the command is not formatted correctly. If you want to cut through all the details, just go to the last paragraph in my post. A quick look comparing your example with the example in the guide seems to indicated you arranging the content backwards. In the Guide Example the Steam content was dragged to an external hard drive named: WDMac2.
When creating the symbolic link you are 1) telling it what to point at, then 2) telling the Terminal where to put the symbolic link and giving it a name. In addition, you did not type in the 'ln' command.
(Will lack of doing this break the process? I don't know, but you should still do it.) At this point my advice is to start from scratch and follow the exactly. Try to avoid trashing any game content you have all ready down loaded. Format is critical, no errors allowed. In the MR Guide, only type in what you must type in.
Establish file paths by dragging the folders to the terminal window when told to. You'll get it.
That it will stop supporting macOS versions 10.7 ('Lion'), 10.8 ('Mountain Lion'), 10.9 ('Mavericks') and 10.10 ('Yosemite') on January 1, 2019. Starting on January 1 2019, Steam will officially stop supporting macOS versions 10.7 ('Lion'), 10.8 ('Mountain Lion'), 10.9 ('Mavericks') and 10.10 ('Yosemite'). This means that after that date the Steam Client will no longer run on those versions of macOS. In order to continue running Steam and any games or other products purchased through Steam, users will need to update to a more recent version of macOS. The newest features in Steam rely on an embedded version of Google Chrome, which no longer functions on older versions of macOS. In addition, future versions of Steam will require macOS feature and security updates only present in macOS 10.11 ('El Capitan') and above.Mac OS 10.10 'Yosemite' was released in 2014 and was replaced by 10.11 'El Capitan' in September 2015. That puts the operating system at a little over three years old.
However, there still seem to be a number of users either unable or unwilling to upgrade. We recently that several users of Yosemite had run into an iTunes upgrade bug that prevented Safari from launching.
A thread was complaining about the move as users would lose access to their game libraries if they don't upgrade. This is the kind of reckoning we shouldn’t be terribly surprised by, but it is disappointing nonetheless. I’ve often asked the question: ‘What would happen to my Steam games if Valve were to suddenly go under?’.
Steam games require Steam to be running in order to launch. ‘Offline mode’ is finicky and if I remember correctly, must first be set when you’re.online. This kind of defeats the purpose in many respects. In any case, there is a big question mark hanging over the status of our games if Valve were to shut down. This was rarely true of physical copies before they were locked down to online stores (the physical edition of Fallout 4 is hilariously a single DVD that essentially just provides a Steam code so you can download the game). In any case, now we have a new and somewhat unexpected issue: ‘What happens if Steam won’t run on my previously supported hardware - hardware that still runs the games I intend to play on it?’.
If I boot a Windows 95 machine and have the right hardware to play the Win95 version of ‘Tie Fighter’, it will run. As a collector of old Macs, I can expect a copy of ‘Prince of Persia’ to run as well on a Macintosh LC running System 7.1 today as it did when it was released in the early 1990s.
Steam - and other digital game stores like it (GOG being the only possible exception I’m aware of) turn this whole relationship with our digital past upside down. In 20 years, will I be able to play ‘Factorio’ on my vintage laptop if I happen to have purchased the Steam version? It looks highly doubtful, and that’s terribly sad for those of us who find comfort and joy in returning to old software OR for the larger number of us whose backlog is so long that they’ll be dead before they make even the slightest dent. Meanwhile, if i wanted, i could still play my windows 95 CD-ROM games on a VM running win95 without issue. Another caveat of DRM i guess. You say that, but have you actually tried playing a Win 95 game on a W95 VM? Because in my experience it doesn’t work at all.
Graphics driver issues won’t even load the game. I used Parallels. I had better luck loading 95 games on an XP VM, but even that was roulette whether or not it would work.
I just ended up using Crossover. I spent a lot of time trying to get legacy games working via VMs and I didn’t have any luck whatsoever — no exceptions, beyond BOWEP (Ski Free/Tetris) — on a 95 VM. Which games did you manage to play? Assuming SW Ep TPM is this game here, it works perfect in my windows xp VM in VMware fusion.
With win95, there's a bit of mucking around that needs to be done like upgrading DirectX, etc. I barely use that VM these days since everything I want to do works great in XP! PM me if you need help! But yeah, i tried parallels before and didnt like it one bit. I have a USB Sound blaster card that works great with EAX-enabled games. It worked with fusion but glitched with parallels You say that, but have you actually tried playing a Win 95 game on a W95 VM?
Because in my experience it doesn’t work at all. Graphics driver issues won’t even load the game. I used Parallels. I had better luck loading 95 games on an XP VM, but even that was roulette whether or not it would work. I just ended up using Crossover. I spent a lot of time trying to get legacy games working via VMs and I didn’t have any luck whatsoever — no exceptions, beyond BOWEP (Ski Free/Tetris) — on a 95 VM. Which games did you manage to play?
Personally I like using DOSBox or Wine to get legacy DOS or Windows games working. Boxer ('and Wineskin ('make it easy to install and setup.