Can you Play Sacred 2 on a External Drive or USB?

[SevPOOTS 90]

Can you? Because my Laptop has No Disk Drive so I Can't install it there for the time being.

 

 

thanks!

[lujate 578]

I have I&B installed on a secondary internal drive, so an external drive might work.

[Silver_fox 397]

Sacred 2 is the game that depends heavily on the operating system registry entries (especially if it's original non-Steam version that has SecuRom). So it can be installed on an External HDD (not on the Removable Flash disk), but you'd have to keep a few things in mind:

 

First, even though the disk is portable, the game can be played only on the computer you installed it on.

 

Second, the game would only work if the disk has the same letter that it had during installation. If the disk got different letter after you plugged in or removed other USB devices, the game won't work until the disk gets its original letter again.

 

Third, and the only thing that can cause problem, is that USB HDDs usually have lower information exchange speed than internal ones. So if you have an old USB 2.0 disk, and use it to play Sacred, in some moments of the game you can experience freezes because the disk does not allow to load things quickly enough. Whether or not it would really be a problem depends on particular USB drive, so you can try and see how it would go for you. Also, with the laptop, it's better not to try playing from external disk while running on battery, because in battery-power mode some laptops decrease the speed of USB drives to save the energy.

 

Another note is that Sacred 2 keeps its savegames in "My Documents" or "User/Saved Games" folders regardless of where the game itself is installed. So you'd have to be sure there is at least some free space on the disk where the operating system is installed, regardless of whether this disk is internal or external.

Edited June 23, 2014 by Silver_fox