Data sticks (No Games)
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yes a few games are over 5GB big to big for a DVD, they are on two devices, my laptop portable HD loads easily and installs games OK, but my data sticks load the big games and data/films plays ok but will not load the games onto any PC.
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The question is why do you want to do such a thing?
USB drives are far slower than a hdd, and unless it is only games from the 90's your playing, load times and general performance would be awful.
Installing to a removable drive, you always run the risk of screwing up the filepath references (many games install to multiple locations within windows even if you specifiy the main directory) and you cannot just copy modern games to different locations for this reason. Also the drive letteer of a removable device may change, again screwing up the file references
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Oh and DVD's go up to '8.5GB' DL, not just '4.7GB'
USB drives are far slower than a hdd, and unless it is only games from the 90's your playing, load times and general performance would be awful.
Installing to a removable drive, you always run the risk of screwing up the filepath references (many games install to multiple locations within windows even if you specifiy the main directory) and you cannot just copy modern games to different locations for this reason. Also the drive letteer of a removable device may change, again screwing up the file references
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Oh and DVD's go up to '8.5GB' DL, not just '4.7GB'
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So you don't actually want to play them off the memory stick?
Are the games on disk or off steam? Surely you could just re-install or re-download?
my problem.
I've installed Resident Evil 5 on here no pr-obs I have another PC, i put the 9gb game on my 64gb data stick it loaded the game OK, but trying to install on my other PC i get errors it wont load but its OK i copied it to my documents on my Windows 7 homegroup and loaded it OK, so my data stick doesn't like something.
I've installed Resident Evil 5 on here no pr-obs I have another PC, i put the 9gb game on my 64gb data stick it loaded the game OK, but trying to install on my other PC i get errors it wont load but its OK i copied it to my documents on my Windows 7 homegroup and loaded it OK, so my data stick doesn't like something.
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LOL.. When you install and App or game it updates a lot of stuff in the registry. Without these the games wont run. Copying the folder wether it be in program files or on a usb key will not allow you to play it on another machine.