Installing games to seperate HDD

UnworthyBean · 2 Feb 2010 at 11:50

If I install a game to an external hard drive, Then take the hard drive to a friends house, Would it still work?

funkeh · 2 Feb 2010 at 11:50

UnworthyBean · 2 Feb 2010 at 11:52

Thought so, Cheers.

derkaderka · 2 Feb 2010 at 12:09

Depends on the game

Some require reg keys or files stored in your my documents to load properly
Also some games install copy protections software

Give it a go and see what happens

bledd · 2 Feb 2010 at 13:29

Some games do, some don't

You can install steam on an external drive and it will work anywhere (just need to double click the steam.exe and it'll install steam again) -some savegame files for games will be stored in my documents etc mind.

IceShock · 2 Feb 2010 at 13:34

some games will some wont as stated above.

i used to put good old track mania on my college usb stick and give it a blast on lowest resolution etc on turd computers when there was nothing to do lol

bledd · 2 Feb 2010 at 13:36

Red Alert 2 is a great game that does work like this

you have to no-cd it first mind

up2nogooduk · 3 Feb 2010 at 01:45

UnworthyBean said:
If I install a game to an external hard drive, Then take the hard drive to a friends house, Would it still work?

I tried this myself on my dad pc. he uses same windows. all i did was copy my documents on to usb. then place my spare hardrive on his, backed up his doc. then replaced his docs with mine. made short cut of the game, and worked fine. but u will have to use documents file. maybe some games wont work. not sure..