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Ayachi Meme
303 posts
Joined July 2014
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Ayachi Meme
right so, i got an ssd for xmas, (yay me) and i just wondering if there was a way for me to have the osu client on my ssd (coz it opens way faster than a hdd) but all my maps on another hard drive in my pc (hdd) as my maps together are like, 30gb lmao and i don't want to fill my ssd up with osu maps. if there is a way i can do this i would really appreciate you telling me!

merry christmas everyone! hope you had a good one :)
Saike
2 posts
Joined December 2013
Saike
Merry christmas,

I am just gonna assume that you're trolling because I honestly don't see what kind of advantage you are looking for. If your osu client doesn't open fast enough then I highly doubt the ssd is gonna do the trick for you.
Ayachi Meme
303 posts
Joined July 2014
Topic Starter
Ayachi Meme

Saike wrote:

Merry christmas,

I am just gonna assume that you're trolling because I honestly don't see what kind of advantage you are looking for. If your osu client doesn't open fast enough then I highly doubt the ssd is gonna do the trick for you.
no trolling here, when i open osu on my hdd it takes up to a minute for it to start, i tried with my ssd and boom, open 3 seconds
Saike
2 posts
Joined December 2013
Saike

- T y l e r - wrote:

Saike wrote:

Merry christmas,

I am just gonna assume that you're trolling because I honestly don't see what kind of advantage you are looking for. If your osu client doesn't open fast enough then I highly doubt the ssd is gonna do the trick for you.
no trolling here, when i open osu on my hdd it takes up to a minute for it to start, i tried with my ssd and boom, open 3 seconds
Have you tried a clean setup ?( Recommend backing up your songs / skins )
Well I don't have 30 GB worth of songs in Osu! so I can't really make a relevant comparism. But for me it loads in less than 3 seconds and that with 2 HDD's in raid0. I just cant imagine 1 minute load up time since I don't think osu loads all songs on boot up.
Ayachi Meme
303 posts
Joined July 2014
Topic Starter
Ayachi Meme

Saike wrote:

I don't think osu loads all songs on boot up.
they dont, but my pc only has about 90gbs left (on the hdd) and i now use an ssd and it starts up much faster

what im saying is, is there a way i can have osu on the ssd (not a shortcut) but somehow link all the maps to to it from the hdd
A Medic
460 posts
Joined May 2013
A Medic
You would need to have all the songs on the SSD as well, just putting the client on the SSD won't do anything in terms of playing the game.
2fishx
24 posts
Joined April 2013
2fishx
There is a solution. As on linux system it's just ln command to link two folders, on windows you have to download two or one file and install it
http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshel ... l#download
vcredist and link shell extension. Download correct version (64bit or 32bit)

1. Install vcredist... (if you don't have windows 10)
2. Install Link Shell Extension
3. Make osu installed on SSD
4. Move your Songs folder from your ssd to hdd. Somewhere, just move it.
5. Make sure that on your HDD is Songs folder with all your maps and on your SSD is osu! without Songs folder
6. Open command prompt as admin
7. Type:
mklink /J <SSD Songs folder path> <HDD Songs folder, containing all maps, path >
(First folder, that on SSD, creates itself. If this folder exist already delete it otherwise command will fail)
For example:
mklink /J C:\osu!\Songs E:\Songs
All my maps are on disk E which is my HDD but my osu! is installed on C which is my SSD
8. Check if osu loads your maps. Click F5 to be sure.
9. ????
10. Profit



(I got SSD for xmas too. Yay us!)
TakuMii
1,874 posts
Joined October 2009
TakuMii
There's a line in the osu!.username.cfg file that lets you set a custom Songs folder, allowing you to force osu! to read your beatmaps from anywhere you'd like. But I doubt that it'll make any difference in loading speeds unless your maps were on the SSD too.
2fishx
24 posts
Joined April 2013
2fishx
Oh well I didn't know about that line in config. That's some good thing.
I have maps on HDD and osu on SSD. Osu starts like *pop* done. When i had osu on HDD loading time was like decades.
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