Is there a way to get games to run directly from the cd without installing them?

[Stinkfinger]

The other day I was cleaning out my desk at home and ran across my old Fallout 2 disc. Being that it tremendously slow at work I was thinking about taking it in there to play, however, the company's IT policy won't let me install programs. So I was wondering if there's any way to play it (or any other game for that matter) right from the CD?

 

[viivo]

No, at least not Fallout 2 or 98% of games since the data is compressed.

You could try installing it on your PC then burning the install directory to a CD and running that, though it may not work without the registry entries.

 

[BlueWeasel]

Nope, not that I know of.

You might be able to install the game at home, burn the entire game directory to a CD (if it fits), and try running it from that CD. It might work, but could be a problem when the game needs to write to the directory.

 

[jdport]

Most games uncompress their data files off of the CD, especially these days where so many games take up 1GB or more of disk space and the game makers would prefer to ship it on a single CD when they can. The installers uncompress it into the install directories, so there wont' be any way to play the games without installing them first.

 

[Thyme]

If you have a ridiculously large amount of ram, you could install it to a ramdrive.

 

[68falcon]

if you had a flash drive could you install it to that