flash drive??

panthaboiii24
panthaboiii24 Posts: 1 Arc User
edited August 2009 in Support Desk
ok well i love this game and id really like to take it everywhere with me. do you think i could install in on a flash drive and plug into other computers and play on the spot? if so do you think that if i update it it will stay.

please tell me your thoughts are on this xD

ty b:victory
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  • Slim_Jim - Sanctuary
    Slim_Jim - Sanctuary Posts: 20 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    no, not under windows because of registry entrys and associated files that get installed in the win32 directory. Under Linux you can do this long as every Linux puter you go to has the exact same setup but how common is that.
  • Poison - Heavens Tear
    Poison - Heavens Tear Posts: 1,444 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    Actually...

    I keep my games on a separate drive from my OS. When I upgraded my computer and installed Win7 on a brand new drive, I went to my games drive and opened the launcher and the game was just fine, without having to even download updates. Perhaps if PWI indeed needs to put anything in your windows directories it checks for those and adds them every time it is launched.
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  • MoNsTaGurL - Heavens Tear
    MoNsTaGurL - Heavens Tear Posts: 2 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    ok well i thought that you could...b/c i kno of programs that you can do it with. what if i made a virtual box on a flash drive and installed it onto that...do you think that that would work?
  • darthpanda16
    darthpanda16 Posts: 9,471 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    You should be able to copy the game directory to whatever drive you wish, then copy it to another PC.

    Flash drives may not have fast enough read and write speeds to work well enough.

    Also, if you have the game installed on XP, you can copy to XP.

    Vista and 7 have their own anomalies where sometimes it'll work, sometimes it won't.
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  • Slim_Jim - Sanctuary
    Slim_Jim - Sanctuary Posts: 20 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    Poison - Heavens Tear wrote: »
    Actually...

    I keep my games on a separate drive from my OS. When I upgraded my computer and installed Win7 on a brand new drive, I went to my games drive and opened the launcher and the game was just fine, without having to even download updates. Perhaps if PWI indeed needs to put anything in your windows directories it checks for those and adds them every time it is launched.

    That would actually be way kewl. If it works like that then yes if you had a 2.0 usb portable hard drive not a flash drive I think it would play fairly well would be allot slower than having it installed locally but you could have acceptable game play. I think the 4gb USB key ring flash drives are just too slow but I don't have one here to test it with.
  • Eviltwist - Lost City
    Eviltwist - Lost City Posts: 61 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    Possible but runs slow as hell ....
  • MoNsTaGurL - Heavens Tear
    MoNsTaGurL - Heavens Tear Posts: 2 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    i have an 8gb flash drive and i have a 120 gb 2.5" external hard drive. do you think that that will work if i do it right?
  • Slaag - Sanctuary
    Slaag - Sanctuary Posts: 17 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    Well, I have a macbook with both XP and mac installed on it, leaving me with very little hard drive space. So instead I install all my games on my firewire hard drive and play them from there, and they all work fine. I keep PWI installed on my main hard drive though, because I play it the most and its a hassle to connect the external every time I want to play b:laugh
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