How does Springboard installation work?

AphisitUpachin377722

Hi!

We are currently managing our installation on our stations and were wondering how Springboard decides where to install its content.

We are running fast SSD’s on the main drive C:/ and also have a HDD for all the other things that we don’t quite often need on D:/.

Just a few months our C:/ drive is full with old, updated and new content and we usually purge some titles here and there but Springboard content has within our knowledge always been on our secondary drive even when there is plenty of space on the main drive. Only the games that are still manage over Steam are capable of changing their installation folder.

It would be wonderful if there is a way to tell the software where to install which game but just knowing in detail how we can help the decision would already be quite nice.

Thank you!
Sam A. Upachin

HunterLaneSBVR

Hey Sam,

Currently, SpringboardVR will pick the drive with the most space available to install games too.

However, being able to choose which drive it installs to is definitely something we’re chatting with the dev team about as it is much better solution for operators!

AphisitUpachin377722

Hi and thank you both very much for taking the time to answer my question!

HunterLaneSBVR
I’ve heard from the live support that that might be a feature in the future. That would be considerably nice to have.

NickWallace
Knowing that will help us immensely with the new setup.

Thank you both again for the information. We are soon going to redeploy the games on our machines and see for ourselves how to manage this. I’d like to post an update here in this thread once we are finish and probably maybe we will have some more questions by then.

NickWallace

Hey Sam, wanted to also clarify the logic of how we install CDS titles. When you first install SpringboardVR it checks all Partitions available (ie, C:\, D:\, E:\ etc…) and finds the one with the most FREE space, so not the largest drive necessarily, it then creates a SpringboardVR Content folder and installs to here each time. If the drive is found to be full it then runs this logic again and goes searching for the drive with the most free space at that time.