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Hey eveyrone,

I was just wondering if it is possible to install two copies of TF2, but on different HDDs. Because I recently bought a 1TB HDD for moviemaking purposes but now I also want to have TF2 on that HDD, but I don’t want to reinstall steam completely. Also two copies would be cool because the “movie TF2” could be tweaked and experimented with.
Is there a possiblity? Would be nice :)

You could install UCL (Universal Content Loader) which is like steam and lets you play games without the gayness.

Yes but I want the startmovie .tga data to be created on my big 1TB HDD. That why I need two versions.

You can’t create multiple instances of tf2 in the manner of the post that Grem linked to.

The best way that I’ve found to make two instances of TF2 (one for gaming, one for movie making) is using a method written by Kluniq in his movie gui found here Included in his gui is his bat & .reg files he uses to switch between game/movie making.

Just edit the reg files to have your own launch options for each, and if you want to launch the game from the bat file as well, just add the lines below to his bat files.

cd C:Program FilesSteam
start steam.exe -applaunch 440

Personally, I’ve compiled the bat and reg files into an exe with the tf2 icon. Pretty easy, simplest way is finding a commercial converter if you lack the skill to compile your own exe. Then I just use those exe files to launch the separate instances.

You can just save the movie files etc to the large hard drive. That would be the easiest way. Although through scripting you probably could make change the default movie save dir.

Theres also a backup button… to avoid entire redownloads / installs… it’s right in the steam menu called backup? lol =P