Does anybody install games on flashdrives?

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Does anybody install games on flashdrives?

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And if so, how well does it work?
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My best friend used to run a lot of his games off a flash drive. Most of the time it was fine. Though I think he stayed away from the more resource demanding games.

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A lot of modern games install the bulk of themselves where you tell them, and then a bunch of configuration stuff onto a fixed point on your OS drive. And possibly third-party libraries and registry entries and such.

GOG stuff and older DOS games should work stand-alone for the most part, but Steam, nah.

It'll work fine for less resource-intensive games, but a flash drive is going to be slower than an internal drive, so I wouldn't try to put Crysis or Far Cry on there.
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NickAragua wrote: Thu Dec 06, 2018 3:28 pm GOG stuff
I have take a few of my GOG low resource using purchases that demonstrably don't write themselves into the registry, etc... and act in a self contained way and install them on to flash drive. It was kinda cool to take a game like Eador Genesis and keep on a memory stick and carry around and play it on any machine around at the time.
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