switching pc's? : V

» Sat Sep 29, 2012 1:05 pm

I will soon be purchasing skyrim on steam (been on xbox so far); but shortly after i will Switch pc's. As i understand it, and please correct me if im wrong, steam will keep my saved game. But what about mods? Will the steam workshop remember which mods im using? What about the nexus manager, which people seemto prefer (and why is that?)?

Thanks!

» Sat Sep 29, 2012 11:40 pm

I don't know I have steam cloud turned off I think? It should synch. most of your saves and will redownload subscribed workhop mods.

What I'd do is copy across steamapps and %USERDIR%/My Games/Skyrim to your new pc. Then you won't need to redownload everything.

» Sat Sep 29, 2012 12:29 pm

You can transplant your whole installation and not have to redo/change anything save resolution/graphics setting using http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896768.aspx and the below batch file. This will even allow you to play the same installation on multiple PCs (laptop/desktop in my case) with the same saves, yet different config files as the configuration stuff is all kept separate while the saves/game are not.

SkyrimSymLinks.bat:

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@Echo OffEcho Create Skyrim symbolic links?PauseMD "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Steam\SteamApps\Common"MD "%CD%\Link'd\%ComputerName%"MD "%CD%\Link'd\Saves"Move "%UserProfile%\Documents\My Games\Skyrim\Saves\*.*" "%CD%\Link'd\Saves"RD "%UserProfile%\Documents\My Games\Skyrim\Saves"Move "%UserProfile%\Documents\My Games\Skyrim\*.*" "%CD%\Link'd\%ComputerName%"RD "%UserProfile%\Documents\My Games\Skyrim"Move "%LocalAppData%\Skyrim\*.*" "%CD%\Link'd\%ComputerName%"RD "%LocalAppData%\Skyrim"Junction "%UserProfile%\Documents\My Games\Skyrim" "%CD%\Link'd\%ComputerName%"Junction "%LocalAppData%\Skyrim" "%CD%\Link'd\%ComputerName%"RD "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Steam\SteamApps\Common\Skyrim"Junction "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Steam\SteamApps\Common\Skyrim" "%CD%"Junction "%CD%\Link'd\%ComputerName%\Saves" "%CD%\Link'd\Saves"Pause@Echo On

If your Windows is x86, remove the '(x86)' instances from the enviro-vars.

Afterward, steam should take care of the registry, but if not

SkyrimRegistry.reg:

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Bethesda Softworks][HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Bethesda Softworks\Skyrim]"Installed Path"="C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Steam\\SteamApps\\Common\\Skyrim\\"[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Bethesda Softworks\Skyrim\1.00.0000]

» Sat Sep 29, 2012 3:08 pm

I'm about to update from win XP x32 (ikr? :sad:

) to win 7 x64. Will SymLinks help at all or do I have to resign myself to reinstalling everything?