Guild Wars 2

Hi. Just got an idea. What if GW2 could be run from a portable HDD or SSD…on any computer. It could be bundled with Windows CE to boot instantly from an external drive. In this case, you plug in your drive and play…on any PC…instantly. What do you think ? Is this possible ?

I don’t see why that couldn’t be done as is, given a drive big enough. I’m not sure they’re made for that kind of wear and tear though.

Yeah, pretty sure you can already do it. GW2 only needs a couple of files to run: the .exe the .dat and the folder for the trading post browser. USB file transfer rates tend to not be super amazing though, so you’re severely hampering the games performance. I really don’t understand the point.

As a personal item you can create that easily yourself as FlamingFoxx mentions but as a product this would not work very well.

As a product you would need to include a graphics card and enough ram to run GW2 at acceptable levels in addition to the SSD.

For a while I was playing GW1 from an external hard drive and the only difference was it loaded slightly slower and I had to go into the folder instead of having a shortcut on the desktop.

I can’t see any reason GW2 would be any different.

GW1 or 2 both are portable. Just copy all the files in whatever media you want and game will run.

Danikat.8537:

For a while I was playing GW1 from an external hard drive and the only difference was it loaded slightly slower and I had to go into the folder instead of having a shortcut on the desktop.

I can’t see any reason GW2 would be any different.

It’s not different, but GW2 is a much bigger game so the difference in loading times would be a lot more noticeable obviously.

If you run it from a USB3 HDD, you can already create your own ‘portable’ GW2 without much in the way of downsides versus a standard internal HDD. Of course, whatever you plug it into needs to be able to run it. Plus, lets face it, if you’re on a computer often enough, you’d just install GW2 on that anyway.

A 32GB USB3 Flash Drive would work just fine for this.

yeah.. get a 32GB USB drive and copy the whole GW2 folder . you’re done.