installing games to "external Drives" ok?

[Antx777]

I picked up a Western Digital Drive last week, and thought I would install a game to it (when asked to select folder/directory etc). the game installed fine (flatout carnage), and plays fine, at about 45 frames 1920x1200 max EVERYTHING (Spec of system: Quad 9650 8800 GTXx2 SLI, Vista 64, 4 gig ram)

Would I get less performace this way?, i was just seeing how efficiant it was, and to cut down on Hard disk space on my main C drive.


~Ant

 

[pingwing]

It will work ok (so long as the drive keeps the same letter i think),performance is based wether you connecting the drive over esata, firewire or usb.

Usb will be slower than an internal but firewire and esata shouldnt be too noticable

 

[Antx777]

Well, i've just installed BF2, but it seems that my C drive is 4 gigs for the worse., so it maybe has to install it on the main drive, not sure.