Installing OOTP on Flash drive

[Pete Grassi]

I have a 4GB flash drive that I would like to install OOTP 8 (and 9 when released after moving 8 back to my laptop).

I have tried several different ways but the install always goes into the C drive. Anyone have any ideas?

[Riverdome]

Not all apps are able to run from flash drives. I don't know what extra programming goes into it but I believe there is some. The licensing model OOTP uses may be a deal killer even if you could get it to install.

[Who Killed Kenny?]

Originally Posted by Pete Grassi

I have a 4GB flash drive that I would like to install OOTP 8 (and 9 when released after moving 8 back to my laptop).

I have tried several different ways but the install always goes into the C drive. Anyone have any ideas?

I store all my league files on an external drive. The game itself (and ELicense) is installed on my laptop. As far the game go, OOTP seems to be less of a hard drive hog, its the league files that take up all the space. I would see no problem storing the league data on a flash drive and keeping the actual game on the individual computers. After you set the data file preferences, the game will load your league properly.

[Neags23]

You may experience some slowdown if you don't have USB 2.0 (and maybe with it, too). OOTP does a LOT of writing to the HD.

I had a huge problem last year until I finally figured out that my USB drive only allowed a maximum of 20,000 files per directory (it was actually an mp3 player that you could use as an external drive). That gave OOTP fits with the player history directory.

[chimanbj]

oooh! I should try this....if I get a "good" league going, then I can move it back and forth between my laptop and desktop without having to zip/copy files all the time....

[OldFatGuy]

Originally Posted by Neags23

You may experience some slowdown if you don't have USB 2.0 (and maybe with it, too). OOTP does a LOT of writing to the HD.

Sorry for the ignorance, but I had no idea what USB 2.0 was until I recently purchased a new laptop and it came with a 4GB flash drive. When I went to my six year old Dell to transfer some files, it warned me it wasn't 2.0 and would be slow. BOY WAS IT!

Now my question is this. Can I "upgrade" my old Dell to 2.0 (i.e. is it some sort of bios or software thing) or would it require new equipment??? Sorry to jump in with this but it JUST happened to me and I would like to know.

[PotatoPeeler]

You'd need to buy a new USB 2.0 PC card. I used to have an old Dell Inspiron 8200 that only had 1.1. So I bought a card like this to do USB 2.0: D-Link DUB-C2 High Speed USB 2.0 2-Port Notebook Adapter

[OldFatGuy]

Originally Posted by PotatoPeeler

You'd need to buy a new USB 2.0 PC card. I used to have an old Dell Inspiron 8200 that only had 1.1. So I bought a card like this to do USB 2.0: D-Link DUB-C2 High Speed USB 2.0 2-Port Notebook Adapter

Thanks man. I guess I can't buy that specific one since mine is a Dell Dimension 8200 desktop, but I do get the idea. WOW, 40 times faster than the 1.1???? Man, I knew I could tell how slow that thing was on mine. Burning a CD is faster, me thinks.

[PotatoPeeler]

Ahh... I misunderstood. I thought you had an old Dell laptop. I guess I should have read your post a little closer. If you've got an extra PCI slot available in your Dimension 8200, you could just buy something like this: D-Link DUB-A2 High Speed USB 2.0 2-Port PCI Adapter