has anybody tried freelancer from a flash drive

[richardsabatino]

has anybody tried freelancer from a flash drive? I recently did an upgrade to my pc and I had to get rid of my DVD/blu ray drive. so I was wondering if anybody ever mounted freelancer to a flash drive.

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[Inferno]

Honestly? I haven't. However, I feel it's completely doable. I've heard about people just flashing ISO files to USBs and using them as a 'disk', though I've only seen it used for things like... OS booting.

[Saronsen]

should work fine, though i recommend using USB 3.0 so it actually, yknow, loads at reasonable speeds

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[Jayenbee]

Honestly, it's just easier to use a program like PowerISO or Daemon Tools to create a virtual drive, mount the ISO to that and install that way. So I've never bothered to give it a go! x)

It's totally theoretically possible to use a USB in this way however.

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[SlappyTheRoach]

My version of Freelancer has the NoCD crack on it. I do how ever have a ISO version of it as well that you can mount and launch as if it were a CD.

No idea on how it would run via USB. Maybe if it were a USB 3.0/3.1 port.

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[Champ]

What about your saves and config files? I don't know where those settings are if you can change them to somewhere other than the default.

So I imagine you could install and run it from a USB, but you might not be able to move it to another machine very successfully.

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[richardsabatino]

well i ordered from amazon a drive enclosure which I can throw my drive in there and use it as external drive so that should take care of my problems for now. thanks for replys guys apreciate it.

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[JC8]

I did it like a year ago or so to test the game on different machines, it worked perfectly fine, even Disco does, no issues other than some DirectX libraries than can be installed separately by copying and pasting them on the system32 directory, if you previously played the game the installer already installs all required API libraries so that won't be an issue. I do recommend using an external SSD with at least USB 3.0 to avoid frame drops every time the game requires loading something, something like a Sandisk Extreme Pro would be perfect for example, i got one of those and it's flawless.

What about your saves and config files? I don't know where those settings are if you can change them to somewhere other than the default.

So I imagine you could install and run it from a USB, but you might not be able to move it to another machine very successfully.

The game will still read the default save directories (C:\Users\User\Documents\My games\Freelancer) regardless of where the game root directory is. If portability is required you can simply make a batch script that automatically creates a symlink of those default save directories back to the external drive, and run the script before running the game, that way the game will still read the saved configuration and data files on any system without issues.

[SnakThree]

Worked fine. I had config files on flash drive to put on laptops too

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