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Portable Installs Please
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rkralik Many GOG games already use DOSBox behind the scenes but the installs still are setting up the Windows Registry. I'd love the option to "install" games to my portable FLASH drive so that I can run them (and keep my saves) across multiple PCs. Thanks!
Fuguss Definitely, get so annoyed with how games want to spread your save files between a hand full of directories from your profile, to your documents folder to somewhere else and if you have to wipe your main drive you lose all your saves unless you back them up and then make sure to return them to it later and fat chance setting up a portable drive to take with you unless you want to ignore the PC versions of games and just get emulated consoles which allow for it.
Just want my games
1) Able to run offline
2) DRM free
3) Portable where I can play my games off an external hard drive or a secondary drive that can survive my main drive wiping or me changing between multiple computers.
Games don't or shouldn't need registry entries and shouldn't need to write to any folder outside of its own.
Ennson Why don't we have this?
fridgeband This would be cool, especially if I can get a portable 55 terabyte solid state drive with USB version 55 (in the future) when it's cheap and very fast. That way I can just throw all my games on a little brick and plug and play instantly on any device I want, all save games stored on the brick too. Also, the brick would play the game on itself, and I could plug it into any operating system I feel like regardless of the needs of the game. brick would be read only, and save games would be backed up so corruption from a bad operating system couldn't infect or break the previous save games. Modding support too, somehow. I dunno lol.
MintyTune I was just thinking about this. While it might not yet be practical with newer games or games over 2GB in size, it would work well with older games that don't take up a lot of space. After all, I think some versions of ScummVM and Dosbox run as portable installs.
It would be nice to have the option to install your old games to a USB stick and play them on another PC without having to download/install them again.
jakuz If this gets added (I imagine it would vary from game to game), I just want to make two additional notes.
I assume for simplicity's sake you wouldn't offer separate zipped downloads, but instead you'd opt for a 2-in-1 installer (standard, default and an optional "portable" mode). So with this in mind:
1. admin rights/elevated privileges: there's no need to require this, if not installing into folders that require it (like "Program Files"). Foobar installer is a good example, it only requires admin access when you select the traditional install mode: i.imgur.com/XgVvrP0.png
2. extracting/installing from other folders: some portable installers (Opera, for example) also put some .exe files in temporary folders (C:\Users...) when installing portable. This is not good, since it can create some complications with some policy rules. It's best if the extraction goes directly from the file to the destination folder (good examples: Foobar, PortableFirefox etc.).
docmars In this day and age, and with the ability (and expectation) that Steam games are portable, I think it's absolutely crucial that GOG move to a portable installation model.
I recently build a new system, and now I am having to reinstall every single GOG game I've purchased because game updates aren't finding the installation path, even if I place the patch executable in the game's installation directory.
GraversParadise There is a portable DOSBox. Could that be used?
Halet Would be great (when technology allows it) to have portable installs also for games not using DosBox. I.e. Heroes of Might and Magic 4 can be run even if moved to another PC.
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