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# 🎮 ggRock Games Drive: Recommended Configuration

This guide provides recommended best practices for organizing your **Games Drive** in a ggRock environment. While there’s flexibility based on your preferences, following these guidelines helps ensure compatibility, ease of support, and long-term maintenance.

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## ❓ The "Problem" (or more accurately, the Dilemma)

There’s no *wrong* way to configure your games drive—but certain methods work better in the context of diskless systems, application compatibility, and support from game and launcher developers.

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## 📁 What Drive Letter Should I Use?

The drive letter you assign to your Games Drive is **ultimately your choice**. However, consistency matters—especially in multi-image environments.

➡️ **Recommendation:**  
Use a dedicated letter like `G:` for the Games Drive.

📌 Also check out our guide:  
[ggRock Machines Have Incorrect Drive Letter for Games Image](https://ggcircuit.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/GKB/pages/15859714) for important considerations.

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## 🧱 Suggested Folder Structure

To keep things organized and minimize issues, we suggest separating content by type. Here’s a simple structure:

```
G:\Games → Game installations (e.g. G:\Games\Rocket League)
G:\Launchers → Launchers like Steam, Epic Games, etc.
G:\Utilities → Misc tools (e.g. QRes, config utilities)
G:\Applications → Apps like OBS Studio or MSI Afterburner
```

💡 Each folder can contain subfolders for individual titles or tools.

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## 🚫 Exceptions: Apps That Don't Like Separate Drives

Some programs (like **Google Chrome**, **Discord**, or certain games) **don’t support installation** to a separate drive letter.

**Avoid using hardlinks or junctions** to work around this—it can cause weird behavior and be a pain to support later.

✅ **Install these apps to** `C:` **(your system image)** instead.

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## 🚀 Where Should Game Launchers Go?

If your Games Drive is reused across multiple ggRock images (e.g. different hardware configs), then install launchers here:

```
G:\Launchers
```

✔️ **General recommendation:**  
Install all game launchers to the Games Drive unless a specific launcher advises otherwise.

🛠️ Need help? Check out our guide:  
[**Recommended Game Launcher Configuration**](https://ggcircuit.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/GKB/pages/15859714)

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## 🎮 Where Should Games Be Installed?

You guessed it—onto the Games Drive, unless the game vendor recommends otherwise.

📌 Be sure the game **supports installation on non-system drives** (some older titles or bad ports don’t).

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## 🧰 What About Other Applications and Utilities?

Applications and tools that don’t need to live on the system image should go on the Games Drive—again, unless they refuse to cooperate with a non-`C:` location.

```
G:\Applications
G:\Utilities
```

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## 🏁 Summary

| Content Type | Recommended Location | Exceptions |
| ---- |
| Games | `G:\Games\Game Name` | If not supported, install to `C:` |
| Launchers | `G:\Launchers\Launcher` | Rarely, install to `C:` if required |
| Utilities | `G:\Utilities` | `C:` if incompatible with other drive letters |
| Apps | `G:\Applications\App Name` | `C:` if required (e.g. Chrome, Discord) |

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