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Hard drives

  • 28-04-2008 12:16PM
    #1
    papajimsmooth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 779 ✭✭✭


    Is it possible to play games that are saved on an external harddrive. Im using bootcamp on a mac to use vista and really want to get some good games like stalker. Is this possible. Thanks


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  • #2
    humanji
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,976 ✭✭✭✭humanji


    Depends on your mac. They may not be able to run if the game requirments are too high. I think, though, that technically you shouldn't have a problem installing the games. It's how well they run that'll be the problem.


  • #3
    papajimsmooth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 779 ✭✭✭papajimsmooth


    well its a black macbook that is as highly speced as i could get. I mean can you run the games out of the external hard drive instead of the main hard drive and do i have to change path directories or anything


  • #4
    Cuddlesworth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,019 ✭✭✭✭Cuddlesworth


    If you are going to try playing games off of a external drive I would recommend getting a firewire enclosure with a sata drive. Read up on the available read and write speeds of models you find, the faster the better.

    But I would not recommend it, in fact I would advise buying a bigger drive for you mac and installing everything again.


  • #5
    CiDeRmAn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,811 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    Saw the title of the thread and thought it was going to be about playing PGR4 with a force feedback steeringwheel while wearing a pair of oven mitts, my mistake!


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