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take WoW on the road!!!

Last post 08-03-2009, 11:22 AM by Billiam. 6 replies.
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  •  06-03-2009, 9:05 PM 531023

    take WoW on the road!!!

    now this has only been tested with one game... But im testing more as we speak. The game i tested it with was none other than World Of Warcraft. What this will allow you to do is play wow on any vista (or wow capable xp) pc, and even a macintosh computer.

    What you will need:

    A 16GB or larger storage device (anything from a flash drive to an ipod, to a external hard drive works here)

    Now all you have to do is copy the wow folder over to the external device, and then remove the item once it is done copying.

    Then you just go plug it into another computer or macintosh (you cannot mix and match here), and then go into the wow folder, an hit launcher.exe and you have your World of Warcraft game ready to go.

    *Note: when patching, I'd highly recommend if a big patch, copy the folder back onto computer and patch then copy back to external device. this saves time and if its a smaller device such as a 16GB flash drive you may not be able to patch


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  •  06-07-2009, 8:22 AM 532265 in reply to 531023

    Re: take WoW on the road!!!

    Yeah... I wouldn't do this. Too much work trying to keep my save files synced [but I personally don't play WoW so I wouldn't know]. I do crack/patch my brought games no matter what though.

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    Snap to maximize windows
    Formatting huge hard drives
    It's Vista but better

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  •  06-19-2009, 2:01 PM 536513 in reply to 532265

    Re: take WoW on the road!!!

    hm I hope you know that this tip works for a lot of things. OS's, games, software. The entire U3 thing on USB drives is based off of the principle that you can take everything with you on the go. Nice tip though



  •  06-21-2009, 9:47 AM 537065 in reply to 536513

    Re: take WoW on the road!!!

    yeah and why would you want to cart an external hard drive around with a game on it? i perssonally have a macbook which i play wow on, it its easy for me to move my stuff to and from my external Sata drive, easier than to keep files synced.

  •  06-24-2009, 8:40 AM 538222 in reply to 532265

    Re: take WoW on the road!!!

    There are no save files locally for Wow, only preference files and if you are running it from the jump drive all the time, the files would always be loaded.

    Still thinking of something witty to put here...
  •  07-09-2009, 10:00 PM 544097 in reply to 538222

    Re: take WoW on the road!!!

    ...that's scary....


  •  08-03-2009, 11:22 AM 554270 in reply to 544097

    Re: take WoW on the road!!!

    This is kind of similar to what I do with my hard drive partitions.  I always install windows on its own partition, then I install all of my games on their own partition.  Then whenever I have to reinstall windows or change OS versions, I can just copy the shortcuts from the folders on the other partition and I'm ready to go again with all of my stuff.

    You do have to be careful however as some games will save data to your personal windows folder instead of your game folder, so you would want to make sure and back that stuff up, but still, it does save you the time of reinstalling a bunch of games just because you want to give windows 7 a try or something.

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