A stupid question about adventure games

Peter Tsang

Peter Tsang

Peter Tsang

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I have a number of titles:

Syberia
Syberia II
Indigo Prophecy
The Black Mirror
Post Mortem
Still Life
Overclocked
Alone in the Dark 4
Alone in the Dark 5
Dracula Original
Jack Keanes

These are all my favourite and some of them are beloved titles. The trouble I am getting at right now is that my WD VelcoRaptor has oly 140 GB practically and since I have used it for most of my FPS and RTS games, I am very short of space on the drive.

It is impossible for me to install all the above titles on to the drive. As I have a motherboard P5Q Deluxe which supports external SATA drives, I wonder if installing these adventure games on to an external SATA drive will be a good alternative? Since speed is not a major concern, and adventure games are mainly point and click games so I think putting them onto external media should not affect the game performance right?
 
I would expect external to be fine, but is there a reason why you can't use an internal HD? You can get loads of space pretty cheaply now.

Also have you played all the oldschool adventures? Like Lucas Arts oldies (Monkey Island 1+2 etc)..they won't take up any space and are classics if you don't mind the graphics. You just need ScummVM and the games and they'll work fine in windows
 
The thing is I don't need them in my drive all the time. I just want them when I have a vacation say a week or so. Besides, if I add 1 more drive into my machine, it will use up another set of cables. The other thing is that I don't want too much power to be drawn from an additional drive which i need it once ina while. I do need to however, install these games on a storage.

So you reckon eSATA is as fast, how much is one do you know?
 
If you have it on an external drive it will only be able to work on the computer it was installed on (as it uses registry on install etc) which may be a pain.

E-SATA is very fast but if you want to do it properly you'll need either an enclosure and drive or an external hard-drive which is more expensive than the internal ones.

Look on OCUK's site for a cost idea.


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