Wh1te Out
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Say I purchased a portable hard drive... Would I be able to install a game onto that hard drive (assuming it was big enough) and then run the game on any PC I plugged the hard drive into?
Portable Hard Drives
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Talon
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Depends on the game, usually yes, and as long as u have cd or its cracked. (cracking a game for online play is a no no)
Steam = no
Steam = no
Wh1te Out
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This would be for Rise of Nations (Gold) and Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle-earth. Mainly for a bit older (so they'll run on the unspectacular government PCs) RTS games. Nothing too system taxing for sure.
The problem is that I don't have any admin rights and installing games on the PCs isn't technically allowed. I was hoping that this would work as a somewhat cheap work-around.
The problem is that I don't have any admin rights and installing games on the PCs isn't technically allowed. I was hoping that this would work as a somewhat cheap work-around.
Talon
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I played age of empires 2 and a few other games on non admin right computers at school on my 512 jump drive back in high school. Where you could not install any .exe files, just run them. It worked good, a bit slow on loading off of a jump drive but it worked.
Master~Plan
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I didn't crack steam, but I just dragged the steam file from an old hard drive to my new Hard drive without touching the registry, and everything worked fine
Talon
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Steam wont install on a external device, idk about dragging it and trying it that way. It says it cant install to a removable device.
If you want to play UT2004 from an external source you can. First install it onto your gaming machine, then copy the entire UT2004 directory over to your external hard drive. Also make sure you take down your CD key and put it in a text file on the hard drive or something-- as long as you don't forget it.
Once you're on your target machine, copy the UT2004 directory anywhere on to the hard drive of the target machine. Then, get a CD key changer and use it to put in your CD key. UT2004 stores your cd key in the registry, so if you try to launch the game without using the changer, it will say that your CD key is invalid (because there is no registry entry) and that you have to reinstall the game.]
You probably *could* run it straight from the external drive but the access times are going to be longer so the game will probably run choppily, if at all.
Once you're on your target machine, copy the UT2004 directory anywhere on to the hard drive of the target machine. Then, get a CD key changer and use it to put in your CD key. UT2004 stores your cd key in the registry, so if you try to launch the game without using the changer, it will say that your CD key is invalid (because there is no registry entry) and that you have to reinstall the game.]
You probably *could* run it straight from the external drive but the access times are going to be longer so the game will probably run choppily, if at all.
Or, for that you could just hit win+r to open up "run" and run "regedit". After that go to the key "My Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Unreal Technology\Installed Apps\UT2004", right click on the folder and click "Export".
From there you can save it in a little .reg file and if you run that on whatever computer you were gonna play UT2004 on it should work right off the little hard drive (in theory). You could even create a little autorun.inf file to run the reg file automatically when the hard drive is connected (I think). This method works with most games I've tried. Obviously, you have to find the correct entry in your registry but they're usually in that SOFTWARE directory.
From there you can save it in a little .reg file and if you run that on whatever computer you were gonna play UT2004 on it should work right off the little hard drive (in theory). You could even create a little autorun.inf file to run the reg file automatically when the hard drive is connected (I think). This method works with most games I've tried. Obviously, you have to find the correct entry in your registry but they're usually in that SOFTWARE directory.