Synobun
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As far as I know games are tethered to the drive letter they're installed in (and old games are even tethered to the CD drive the CD is in). I'm not an expert, though. Zelig might know more.
Computer Questions Not Worth Their Own Thread II
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As far as I know games are tethered to the drive letter they're installed in (and old games are even tethered to the CD drive the CD is in). I'm not an expert, though. Zelig might know more.
aimeeandbeatles
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What do you mean by "recognize"?
Many games you can run simply by double-clicking the exe.
Otherwise if you want your saves and configuration to be recognized you need to move them to the appropriate places.
I wouldn't run games off external hard drives (or any non-SSD) anyway, the experience will be bad.
And installing games from online services really isn't very tedious.
Many games you can run simply by double-clicking the exe.
Otherwise if you want your saves and configuration to be recognized you need to move them to the appropriate places.
I wouldn't run games off external hard drives (or any non-SSD) anyway, the experience will be bad.
And installing games from online services really isn't very tedious.
PlutonianEmpire
King of the Plutonian Empire
Well, as far as I can see, I don't have much choice here, since I only have 20 gigs left on my main hard drive, a dozen for my space program, another dozen for essential music, pics, and downloads, and literally all the rest for essential system files, and it's only a 127 gig hard drive, and I absolutely can not afford a new rig, laptop or desktop, as I simply do not have the money.
Mr.WorldWide
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Nah, not really. You just have high expectations. The majority of causal are still running everything off standard HDDs. The user who asked the question sounds like he's on a budget and not about to splurge on a 500GB SSD anyway and I commend him for that.
It is if you have a sub-par or capped connection.
PlutonianEmpire said:
The HDD you got back from your dead laptop is an internal 2.5" HDD, right? That's not an external drive in my definition(think usb). If you other laptop is a decent size or you have a desktop you should have no problem hooking that drive directly to the mobo. It really depends on the games installed on them, some may not run due to DRM restrictions it's hard to predict. You might also consider mounting the second drive as a folder on your C drive instead.
I have reasonable expectations. For pretty much any budget of computer, the user experience will be better with a $100 cheaper computer and an additional SSD.
They've got far bigger problems to worry about in that case.
PlutonianEmpire
King of the Plutonian Empire
Correct, and thanks.
Mine's both.
Plus, I prefer physical media over downloads anyway, since I actually own it, versus just sending subatomic particles over vast distances in subterranean tubes and space as part of transactions that don't result in legitimate dvds delivered to my house that I can physically defend against MAFIAA secret agents.
And playing offline FTW.
It was the hdd for a 64 bit Win 7 machine (original os was vista 64 bit), so as far as I can tell, yes. This current machine is Vista 32-bit. Will that be an issue?
Nope.
And even if it was considered ownership, I could fit all ~250 of my Steam games that I own on a single hard drive that I own, which is vastly more convenient than 250 game boxes.
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I'm curious if there's a good solution for PlutonianEmpire's problem as well - I'm in a similar situation. My backup hard drive, a 5400 RPM drive, died, and I bought a drive of the same size, but a different manufacturer, and 7200 RPM, as a replacement, since it was a better deal all-around than the 5400 RPM drives available. So what I'd like to do now is make the 7200 RPM my main drive, and my current main drive (another 5400 RPM drive) the new backup. I'd kind of hoping I can simply copy all the data over, reassign my current backup (D:\) to some other letter, say R:\, and then change the 7200 RPM drive from F:\ to D:\, and then switch the 5400 from R:\ to F:\. With a couple reboots in between. I'm hopeful this will keep the registry links pointing to D:\ working, once it's all said and done, and I'll be left with a faster main drive.
I do agree that having a goal of everything running from an SSD is too high of expectations for most computer users. Desirable, sure, but often not worth the dough when there are other things competing for limited money as well. Also assuming that the person in question isn't going to sell $100 worth of equipment from whatever computer they have now to finance that SSD.
I do agree that having a goal of everything running from an SSD is too high of expectations for most computer users. Desirable, sure, but often not worth the dough when there are other things competing for limited money as well. Also assuming that the person in question isn't going to sell $100 worth of equipment from whatever computer they have now to finance that SSD.
No, again, I can't think of any budget over $400 for any computer purchased in the past year where not buying an SSD would have been a sound choice.
Your thing should be pretty easy, you can Google directions for copying Windows installs/partitions with a Linux live boot.
I probably wouldn't bother though, it's so fast to set up an OS now if you do it properly. Windows settings, user files and program configs sync to cloud, most worthwhile programs have automated installation with ninite. I blacklist any programs that install crapware, so anything that ninite doesn't do is just a matter of mashing "next" through all the installers.
Your thing should be pretty easy, you can Google directions for copying Windows installs/partitions with a Linux live boot.
I probably wouldn't bother though, it's so fast to set up an OS now if you do it properly. Windows settings, user files and program configs sync to cloud, most worthwhile programs have automated installation with ninite. I blacklist any programs that install crapware, so anything that ninite doesn't do is just a matter of mashing "next" through all the installers.
I don't understand this, who needs to actually install a bunch of games off CDs? How many games off CDs does anyone actually plan on playing in the next month?
It takes like 30 seconds to mash through all your Steam/GoG/Origin games that you plan on playing in the next month.
Anything on CD I'd say it's an excellent opportunity to rip ISOs of the discs so you can toss them and be done with it.
When you type password wrong to Ubuntu login, is the lag after it intentional to make it slower to hack into someone's account?
Then, how can comparing two strings be slow? Even if the other is in some crypted form, it seems odd.
I have always thought it was, as it is much quicker when you get it right than when you get it wrong. ICBW.
I doubt it's the actual string comparison that's slow, if you want to confirm, try logging in to your box with ssh, that's probably fast.
I mean, it's possible, but that just seems like terribly pointless design - security breaches where people guess passwords by typing them into a physical box are pretty much non-existent to start.
I mean, it's possible, but that just seems like terribly pointless design - security breaches where people guess passwords by typing them into a physical box are pretty much non-existent to start.
It surely uses the same infrastructure for all account verification, remote and local, and the delay on error is nested in that. Also, even for a local login, it's possible to have a device that emulates a keyboard, instead of physically typing passwords in, so all the same kinds of attacks are possible.
Correct, and thanks.
versus just sending subatomic particles over vast distances in subterranean tubes
Electrons are not subatomic.
