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Can you run a game off of a USB? *This may be a dumb

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Yes. I played halo and minecraft off a usb in class 

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So I am in class right now (lol) and I my Digital Interactive Media teacher says that we cant download games onto the computer because he doesn't want it to be all cluttered and jacked up

 

So my question is could I put a game onto my flash drive and run it off of there?

Would I download onto the computer automatically?

 

Once again this may be a dumb question but I was just wondering because I have a lot of down time in this class

 

 

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yes. but don't its gonna be painfull to play

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I have seen Photoshop being run of a USB. So it probably can be done.

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it might be possible with some games

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Yes, I played GTA 4 off of a Corsair USB 3.0 Flash drive. It was not bad.

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Yeah sure and actually copying a game from usb to the internal hdd of the computer isn't downloading, it's copying.

Downloading is getting a game of the internet, and that's something else. So if you copy it and he says "no downloading allowed" you can say you didn't do that :P

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It's fully possible, but if the USB is some cheap shit youre not gonna have a good time, ofcourse it needs to have enough storage capacity for the game files.

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Yes. I played halo and minecraft off a usb in class 

 

What Halo were you playing off of a USB?

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yes. but don't its gonna be painfull to play

Depends on the drive, as long as you don't have some junk drive it wont be painful at all. A decent flash drive will outclass some hard drives in terms on sequential speeds, and I don't mean the ones with SSD controllers.

 

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