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Playing on a College Mac Computer
P.S. If you take issue with the way Charr armor was designed like I do, or if you want to see some cool links to Charr armors that were never put into the game, see my post:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/races/charr/Charr-Armor-1/
Aloha Tyrians,
I am a college student trying to run Guildwars 2 on the college iMac computers. I have a external drive that is about 1 Trilobyte in disk space with USB 3.0. However, the school computer won’t let me mount the Installation file at all, so I can’t copy and save the files into my external drive to play off of the external drive.The computers here only allow admin to install programs on them, but all I want to do is install it onto my external drive! What should I do?
Ask the computer administrator at the college for help / permission to play games on their computers.
The computers belong to them and you’re just a guest using them. Ask before trying to install games and other software.
I’m not trying to install them on their computers. I just want to play from an external drive.
When you attempt to install anything it goes through the computer to path that you chose to put the file. So you can think of it as being installed on the computer before being moved over to the external.
If you have a Mac at home you probably would be able to install it onto your external then run it from there on their computers.
By the way don’t mean to be one of those people but it is a Terabyte that I think you are trying to say you have?
If not then you have taught me something new.
I’m not trying to install them on their computers. I just want to play from an external drive.
You’re wanting to run software on a computer that you don’t own or have administrator-level rights to. That’s a huge security problem for the person who’s job it is to keep the computers running and safe for all the people who use them.
Ask the college for permission and help. It’s the right move.
When you attempt to install anything it goes through the computer to path that you chose to put the file. So you can think of it as being installed on the computer before being moved over to the external.
If you have a Mac at home you probably would be able to install it onto your external then run it from there on their computers.
By the way don’t mean to be one of those people but it is a Terabyte that I think you are trying to say you have?
If not then you have taught me something new.
Yep, I mean Terabyte. Yeah, I figured that would be the only solution besides asking the school. The school have said no to any game installation on their computers. I don’t have a mac computer at home, but I do have a windows computer. Is there any way to use windows files to play on a mac from an external drive? Probably not, but I might as well ask.
I don’t understand why downloading the Mac beta client and installing it to the hard drive would be a problem. It just won’t be able to run on Windows. Only foreseeable problem might be what the formatting of the drive is, don’t take my word for law. I am not completely sure any of this would work.
While you can certainly download the dmg file for the Mac beta client, after that, you can’t really do anything with it using Windows (much like you can download an exe file format to the Mac, but not open or install it).
So you would need to borrow a Mac to be able to install the application to an external hard drive.
Also keep in mind that to increase the chances of having a decent experience running the game, you may want to make sure the hard drive has a decent pipeline to the computer (probably minimum FireWire 800 or USB 3.0), and has its own power source. (Just considerations — I don’t have experience running the game from an external, but I know lesser connections and USB-powered drives are more limited when working off externals drives.)
This forum topic may help.
As long as the hard drive is formatted for both PC and Mac, you might be able to use the techniques in the linked thread to use your PC to unpack the client so that it would run off your hard drive when plugged into a Mac.