Store Fortnite on an external hard drive?

Since my son's MSI notebook already uses a lot of space, I bought a 2 TB SEAGATE expansion hard drive and connected it to the notebook with a USB cable. However, the notebook always saves on the notebook's hard drive under C. Ab. I have already tried to adjust the settings. What can I do to install the game on the external drive?

You change that in Epicgames.

When installing the game, you can choose the location.

Look here

https://gegamenews.com/index.php/2019/02/18/so-verschieben-sie-fortnite-in-einen-anderen-ordner-ein-anderes-laufwerk-oder-einen-anderen-pc.html

At Epic Games, I entered the external drive in Settings under 'Change storage location for depot cache' and restarted. Nevertheless, the installation takes place under C. And then comes the note that there's not enough space.

Please read the instructions, it is not as easy as this:

https://gegamenews.com/index.php/2019/02/18/so-verschieben-sie-fortnite-in-einen-anderen-ordner-ein-anderes-laufwerk-oder-einen-anderen-pc.html

OK. I will.

It seems to work. The installation is just at 2 percent. It was probably because I had to uninstall the old Epic Games.

With pleasure.

Maybe you can help again. The game is now downloaded to the hard drive. My son still can't play. The memory of the graphics card is probably too small. What can you do there?

What graphics card does he have?

And how much RAM?

Or you just write on which notebook it has EXACTLY. Example MSI-4711ABC

He has an MSI GF75 8RC-005 Thin. So far only one game is installed. Car racing GTA 5.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (Mobile) 4GB GDDR5

I agree!

MSI is only 1 week old. I just called. In theory, it would also be possible to return the notebook.

OK, the VRAM (graphics card) is definitely NOT too low.

It may be that the game wants to use the internal INTEL graphics (this is too low), you have to make sure that the NVIDIA graphics are used.

It is best to deactivate the INTEL GPU so that only the NVIDIA is accepted. OR set in the NVIDIA control panel that the NVIDIA should be used for this game.

Just as a note…

MSI GF75 8RC-005, who has done this to mix such a good Intel CPU with such a weak NVIDIA graphics card. That is really throwing pearls before the swine.

Ahem. I'm going to try this tonight…

What would have been a good graphics card?

Do more games fit on the graphics card memory?

I will soon be in Berlin and can eat or something like that. Revang if we can do that.

What would have been a good graphics card?

A GTX1060 or RTX 2060 would be appropriate for the CPU.

Do more games fit on the graphics card memory?

No games fit on a graphics card. The graphics card only outputs the graphics. A game occupies the VRAM (graphics memory), which is required to play.

If a graphics card has too little memory or is too slow, the games are only displayed with poor quality or they jerky.

The GTX1050ti is an entry-level graphics card that can play almost all current games, but it can happen that the quality is poor or the games do not run smoothly.

GTA V or Fortnite run pretty well with this GPU.

I will soon be in Berlin and can eat or something like that. Revang if we can do that.

This is very nice but really not necessary, I'm happy to help if possible.

So, I disabled the Intel graphics card. Unfortunately that didn't work. Fortnite stopped immediately.

To assign NVIDIA the game, I need a driver, right?

I just want to download it online from CHIP.

No you don't need it, you do that in the Nvidia control panel.

Unfortunately I don't find it. Give up… Go to PC Service. Merci beaucoup again

I found her.

So there it says 'You are not currently using a display that is connected to a GPU from NIVIDA.'