[Bug 38114] Steam doesn't allow to install games in different locations (needs GetVolumePathName implementation)

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Fri Feb 20 11:17:03 CST 2015


https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38114

Nikolay Sivov <bunglehead at gmail.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|RESOLVED                    |REOPENED
         Resolution|INVALID                     |---

--- Comment #13 from Nikolay Sivov <bunglehead at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Rosanne DiMesio from comment #10)
> I've tested clicking the Install button for a game, and right-clicking the
> name of a game in the Library list. Both bring up the same install dialog,
> and neither includes a "Create new Steam Library on Drive X" option in
> Windows. Perhaps I'm missing something obvious (it wouldn't be the first
> time), but I don't see any other way to bring up the install menu. 
> 
> I also just tested this on my laptop, which dual boots with Windows 7, just
> in case running in a VM made a difference, and got the same behavior as Wine
> and XP in a VM.

You have to make sure you have several partition, doesn't matter on same HDD or
not. It allows you to create on Library per partition as I understand it. So if
you have only C:, there's nothing to choose from.

> 
> I did confuse things by mentioning the native client. I do get the option to
> create a new Steam Library on the dropdown list in the Linux client, along
> with the libraries I've already added, and I may have been mistaken in
> thinking I had to add the libraries via settings to get the dropdown list in
> the first place. 
> 
> Nikolay, when you say you get the option to create a new Steam Library on X,
> are you talking about the Linux client, or in Windows? Because I don't see
> that at all in Windows XP or 7, even after I've added new libraries via
> Settings.
> 

I'm talking about Windows client of course, it doesn't make much sense to
compare to Linux native client.

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