It's crazy that, a year after launch, we still aren't able to choose which drive to install a game on. Presumably Oculus knows how much space VR games tend to take up! Any news on what the blockers are here would be greatly appreciated by the community I'm sure.
Make a folder on your storage drive called Rift Games. From the oculus folder copy the entire software directory to it then delete the original. Then bring up an administrator cmd window (type cmd in search then right click on cmd at the top and run as administrator) and type - mklink /J "C:\program files\Oculus\Software" "D:\Rift Games\Software" (or change to your chosen path) this makes a simlink software folder in the original location that links to the new store for your games. I did this a few months ago and it works seamlessly. all games will automatically install to the new location.
Not entirely no ill effects. When the drive that the empty folder is on is full, I am unable to download new titles from the store. I get a selected hard drive is full error.
well yes. its a simulated junction link. The idea is that you don't fill up the drive. its still going to report the size of the drive the simlink is on as it has no idea that its on another one. .hence the reason it works. I had 10 gig left and 3 or 4 oculus games installed so i moved it with this method. that gave me 40 gig free on the drive and its now running like clockwork with everything installing to my storage drive. If the drive is full then all sorts of performance issues will arise.. you should always try to keep 20% free for optimum usage regardless of oculus software