Installing a game from a USB stick?

[zod96]

Does anyone know if its possible to copy the contents of your game DVD to a USB stick then install the game that way? I'm trying to get rid of using a optical drive...

 

[zinfamous]

I suppose it depends on the game, but most of noCD hacks that can be installed. That should work.

And I believe that it is legal in many cases. Don't quote me on that.

 

[simonizor]

You could use a program like Alcohol 120% to make an image of the game's DVD and then you should be able to mount it also using Alcohol 120%. So, you could store the DVD images on your USB drive and use Alcohol 120% to mount the images. Alcohol 120% makes a virtual DVD drive on your computer that it uses to mount the images to. Your computer will see the images just as if they were actual DVDs in an actual DVD drive.

Unfortunately, Alcohol 120% costs $55. You can get it at alcohol-soft.com. I'm sure there are other programs that will do the same thing for free, but Alcohol 120% is probably the most pain free way to do it.

Also, you can use Steam. It's a game download service made by Valve that has a pretty large offering of games. There's also a community, friends list, etc to go along with it. And don't forget about the sales! Steam has a lot of sales on games with prices far below retail.

 

[DaveSimmons]

GoG.com sells older games that are DRM-free and can be installed from a USB stick.

 

[Lonyo]

And when Steam doesn't have sales, games are frequently more expensive than online prices for boxed copies (e.g. Amazon).