Has anyone ever migrated their HS2 install across machines? I'm building a new PC soon, and given that I've got all these mods and like 800gb of data, is it possible to simply drag and drop? Is there any hidden Appdata folder settings, or registry values? I'll also be going from w10 to w11, across these machines. Would love to hear any relevant experience/info.
I do basicly do that all the time, even without the registry fixer (but don't mind me if it's needed, it's needed)
For easier swtching, I do the following:
I have folders outside of the game for:
- Graphics (presets and cubemaps)
- mods (all, that would be in mymods is in an external folde; plus the studiomods maps and items)
- MaterialEditor and Overlays (export path)
All those additional paths can be set in Plugin Settings and make it easy to just use a new installation/copy of the game that will use the same stuff I had before.
(for safety: make a copy of <gameroot>\BepInEx\config)
Then I copy my old folder config over the new installation.I personally never needed to roll back, but if it doesn't go well, you have the old config safed as "config - copy". All that's needed then is checking the drive letter and may be adjust it, if there's a difference.
You can also copy your \UserData\save if you want.
Additionally I use hardlinked (via powershell) folders for
- characters
- coordinates
- scenes
(There was a post about how that's done somewhere)
All that makes switching to another copy of the game (new download or another PC) pretty fast.