well realistically 3 options, 1 verify

[cyan bobcat]

before any of this though @quasi mauve did you make sure the drives was showing up in storage locations on steam, or was it jsut one drive ?

[quasi mauve]

yes, the drive is showing up on steam and seems to be working

i should point out the fact that i told windows to NOT keep my old files after installing by the way, so all of my games were installed through a clean install

[cyan bobcat]

ahh , okay , in that case, te recomendarie reinstallar de nuevo , es un disco duro , o es un hdd

lol my spanish no lo practico tanto

[quasi mauve]

don't worry about it, i understand english just fine!

[quasi mauve]

its an SSD, though reinstalling everything seems like the way to go so i guess i'll try that and come back if it doesnt work

[cyan bobcat]

before you do that

reinstalling from a clean windows usb , not the local reinstall, usually those dont do so well, did you also upgrade the pc parts because if you are on windows 10, it only has until october 2025, might want to jump straight to 11 if your computer supports it

[quasi mauve]

oh i did install straight from my SSD, that could be part of the issue then i guess, though i dont have a big enough usb to install windows 10 from that

also i did upgrade a couple things on my pc, but it doesn't support windows 11

i'm planning on staying on windows 10 for as long as possible with the security issues and everything because windows 11 SUCKS

i used it myself for a while and i didn't like it

[cyan bobcat]

when it came out, it did suck with all the bugs , but since its been out for like 3 years its pretty solid, what did you upgrade , the most important part is cpu, sometimes your pc will say it doesnt but it does , just need to change a settin in the bios , but thats usually with 8th gen intel and 2nd gen ryzen , technically some chips 1 gen older do work

what size usb do you have doenst need to be too big , 8gb should be good

[quasi mauve]

upgraded my amount of ram (2GB > 8GB) and my hard drive (HDD > SSD)
the cpu in question is a pentium dual-core E5800 3.20 GHz and the bios is NOT UEFI because i haven't really had any issues related to that so i haven't bothered on upgrading that

also last time i used windows 11 was a couple months ago, somewhere around january/february

[cyan bobcat]

ahh okay, and oof yeah , 10 might be best

so you only play small games i assume ?

[quasi mauve]

usually, yeah, the most resource intensive game i've played so far has been TF2 which actually runs decently, surprisingly

[cyan bobcat]

well if you ever plan to upgrade stuff like this https://a.co/d/7kxgfm5 are huuuuge improvements to what you are used to lol, specially the built in graphics, pop any low end to mid tier card and you are golden

[quasi mauve]

oh sweet

thanks for that, dude

i'll keep this one in mind

[cyan bobcat]

yeah slapping a 200 dollar gpu in there and you ready to game with something like this https://a.co/d/3n5A38n and you can play modern games , its not the most powerful system but it gets the job done, plus you get frame generation with that series

https://a.co/d/0HZ9bAL heres the last one after that gona let you be haha , if you want mid -high tier gaming