could i play a game by loading files over the internet?

[brandon0852]

This seems like the most inefficient way to play a game but i just got a new laptop to use while im out of my house. The laptop doesnt have a lot of hard drive space. I did try sharing my drive from my desktop and mount it as a network drive, then i added that drive as a game library in steam. all the games showed up but i needed to manually install all the pre run files that usually get installed when you download the game and run it the first time locally. From what i gathered... it kinda worked but the game hung and took long to start if it even could start. I was just wondering since i already have a method of mounting the drive over the network if it is practical to even try.

[Nexxus]

I'm going to say no unless you are on EXTREMELY fast internet. 

[JefferyD90]

1 minute ago, Nexxus said:

I'm going to say no unless you are on EXTREMELY fast internet. 

most exe's won't load dependencies' over a network.

 

so a extremely simple game like Minecraft should work, but Grand Theft Auto won't.

[RS2007GOD]

Buy a bigger hhd for your laptop. Problem solved ?

 

 

Its no ssd but is 4tb 

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01C4VZO7G/ref=ox_sc_act_image_2?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A1BKCYQGK0QCS0

 

[brandon0852]

i didn't actually expect to get any attention from this.

10 minutes ago, RS2007GOD said:

Buy a bigger hhd for your laptop. Problem solved ?

 

 

Its no ssd but is 4tb 

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01C4VZO7G/ref=ox_sc_act_image_2?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A1BKCYQGK0QCS0

 

opening my laptop to add a storage drive, i think only m.2 will fit, if that, will void my warranty. I might actually test this tomorrow to see how it works. let me know if you're interested in me responding with any results.

[RS2007GOD]

2 minutes ago, brandon0852 said:

i didn't actually expect to get any attention from this.

opening my laptop to add a storage drive, i think only m.2 will fit, if that, will void my warranty. I might actually test this tomorrow to see how it works. let me know if you're interested in me responding with any results.

What laptop do you have?

[RS2007GOD]

Also you could just get a external USB storage drive although they can be alil slow.

[brandon0852]

8 minutes ago, RS2007GOD said:

What laptop do you have?

i got the new Razer Blade, the gtx 1060 model. It claims its good for gaming, i've had it for 4 or 5 days and it doesn't perform that well with games.

[Thinkfreely]

33 minutes ago, brandon0852 said:

This seems like the most inefficient way to play a game but i just got a new laptop to use while im out of my house. The laptop doesnt have a lot of hard drive space. I did try sharing my drive from my desktop and mount it as a network drive, then i added that drive as a game library in steam. all the games showed up but i needed to manually install all the pre run files that usually get installed when you download the game and run it the first time locally. From what i gathered... it kinda worked but the game hung and took long to start if it even could start. I was just wondering since i already have a method of mounting the drive over the network if it is practical to even try.

Sounds like you got a chromebook, or something similar. Those are meant to use the internet storage on GMAIL and similar sites, instead of storing your files on the Labtop itself. Your upgrade options are limited for internal storage. Best bet is to get an external USB drive with a high read/write and transfer speed and play your games off that.

[RS2007GOD]

2 minutes ago, brandon0852 said:

i got the new Razer Blade, the gtx 1060 model. It claims its good for gaming, i've had it for 4 or 5 days and it doesn't perform that well with games.

You cant expect desktop performance but it really should be a beast of a laptop.. 

[brandon0852]

2 minutes ago, RS2007GOD said:

You cant expect desktop performance but it really should be a beast of a laptop.. 

your gonna hate me. i got this to run my vive since this claims to be "VR Ready". it would have been so much better then chugging my desktop from my bedroom to my living room. i watched some videos online and they say it works but oh my god did i have the worst experience ever.

[RS2007GOD]

ouch.. 

[brandon0852]

i just want to give some updates. so my laptop actually is running gta V really nicely. i guess the poor performance of the vive just upset me more then it should have. I downloaded and ran gta v once on the computer and then deleted it and mounted my network drive and linked the steam game library up to that and ran gta v again. it took longer to load, it even gave me an error the first time i tired to go online, probably because it ran into an issue of porting my previous online session onto this computer. but the second time i ran it, it worked. i'm now transferring the files to my internet accessible drive and  i will switch the steam library to that and see if it runs now, then tomorrow i will test to see if i can run it from outside my home internet.