So I’m not really a gamer nor have I ever been, so I wanna get some basic shit figured out. Just bought a 256gb steam deck with a 128gb memory card, pretty much exclusively for gta5 & rdr2. Lame, I know. Roast if you want, I dont really care.

So.

  1. I initially downloaded gta5 onto the ssd, which left me with something like 112gb? Idk. So, I moved gta to the sd, which left me like something like 2gb free on the sd. As I save the game while playing the story, am I gonna totally be fucked and run out of space? Or will it start saving game data to the ssd?

  2. reason I moved gta to the sd, is because neither the ssd or the sd had enough space to install rdr2 AFTER I bought it. Why doesnt the steam store tell you how much space games require before purchase? Am I just stupid and dont know how to check? Likely.

  3. did I screw up by not buying the 512? Or is getting a bigger decent quality sd card going to solve my problems? (Recommendations welcome)

  4. is there a way to transfer game files to a computer from the sd, and then onto a bigger sd? I live on the road and do not have wifi or a hotspot to take on 10 hour downloads…. I have wifi like, for the next 18 hours or so…. Ugh

Thanks yall. Im just tryna play those two.

  • Facehugger_35@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago
    1. On this device, most saves go onto the internal drive, within the compatdata folder for that game.
    2. Steam does tell you how much space games need. It’s on the bottom of the store page, under system requirements.
    3. Nah, the 256gb Deck is fine if you keep most of your games on an SD card. It’s what I used for a long time before I opened it up and stuck in a 1tb drive. Just don’t let your internal drive fill up too much.
    4. So… This is a bit of an involved question with multiple answers. The Deck formats its cards in something called ext4, which is a linux format. Problem is, Windows can’t read ext4. This means windows can’t read Deck cards. There are a few ways around this that don’t work particularly well. So with that in mind, your best bet is to grab a cheap USB SD card reader, plug it into your Deck, put both your cards in (one in the bottom slot on the Deck itself and one into the reader), go into desktop mode, mount the new card via the icon on the taskbar in the lower left, and then copy-paste over everything from the old card to the new card.

    Alternatively for #4, you can try formatting the card to BTRFS and then installing the Windows BTRFS drivers on your computer; in theory this should let the card be used by both SteamOS and Windows. In practice I couldn’t get it to work well, and obviously formatting will destroy any data currently on the card.