Epic game launcher location install#
Example you install your games at C:\Users\-yourname-\Racing\, another at C:\Users\-yourname-\Desktop\Fighting\, another at blah blah blah, so basically if you're one of those people that love making bunch of folders all over the place, that things you have to keep track yourself. The issue with Epic is you need to visit two places, one place where the Manifests are kept on C drive for Epic client to read, and other place is where you place your games at, but if you made more places you put your games, then that more places you need to look for. The reason why I like Steam is that they made it easy with their build in features, but even before they had that build in features there was other way you can do it yourself manually.Įxample let say you only have one internal drive, and external drive only to use as storage then to move your games back to your internal drive. This process works for currently installed games and for those you have archived from previous installations - step 3 (uninstalling) is the only difference. Test it, and delete the COPY directory if it's all good. Open the launcher and the game should now be playable. egstore into the new install directory ( EliteDangerous). EliteDangerous COPY) and copy all the files and subdirectories within it EXCEPT. egstore\Pending subdirectory and move the two files (. Go back to the new install location, and go into the directory the launcher has created (e.g. Move the file up a level, from Manifests\Pending into Manifests Open it in a text editor and change the entry for the second value, bIsIncompleteInstall, from true to false. Open the Pending subdirectory - there should be a new. You need to have "Hidden items" ticked in the View tab of file explorer to see ProgramData. Go to your manifests folder - this is probably C:\ProgramData\Epic\EpicGamesLauncher\Data\Manifests. Once it starts downloading, cancel the installation and fully close the launcher again Start the installation process, choosing the desired folder location (not the COPY one). Open the launcher and uninstall the game (if necessary). " EliteDangerous COPY" so the launcher doesn't overwrite it. Make sure the Epic launcher is closed, not minimised.Ĭopy the game installation directory from the old location to the desired one.Īppend "COPY" to the name of the copied directory e.g. After some experimentation I finally hit on a variation of that process that worked for me. Most suggest the copy folder -> uninstall -> start install in new location -> close launcher -> copy files to new location -> open launcher method, but when I tried this the launcher would just clear out the directory and start downloading again. I trawled through a lot of forum and blog posts but none of the solutions worked for me.
Epic game launcher location windows#
After a recent Windows reinstall I had a bunch of Epic game installation folders backed up, but couldn't get the newly installed launcher to recognise them.
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