Can I Play Games from a Flash Drive

[Glewey15]

Hey Y'all, the storage on my laptop is filling up. since most of the porn games on this site arent that demanding, I was wondering if it was possible to play them off a flash drive. It would be a lot cheaper than buying a new SSD for my laptop. I figure renpy games will be fine, but will there be any issue with unity games or other engines? let me know

Thank you!

 

[Insomnimaniac Games]

I mean, you probably could. It'd die fast as hell though. And the read speeds might not be enough to keep up, depending on the drive and port.

 

[Glewey15]

I mean, you probably could. It'd die fast as hell though. And the read speeds might not be enough to keep up, depending on the drive and port.

ah, alright. I just looked up ssd prices for my laptop and they are less than I thought, so ill just get a new one of those instead of the flashdrive.

BTW I started playing headpats the other day and it is a great game! thank you for the response.

 

[MissCougar]

They're made for storage and reading and writing files at a time or bulk stuff, but not really to run things off of. Though you can do like a Linux boot and junk, but as indicated it probably will start to degrade quicker.

You might be better off figuring out how to buy like a micro SD card and roll with those, similar to like Switch and Steam Deck and others can do. Be sure to get a good one specifically for gaming, might be a bit of money but you'll be much happier with it and it might still be cheaper than an actual SSD drive.

 

[Glewey15]

They're made for storage and reading and writing files at a time or bulk stuff, but not really to run things off of. Though you can do like a Linux boot and junk, but as indicated it probably will start to degrade quicker.

You might be better off figuring out how to buy like a micro SD card and roll with those, similar to like Switch and Steam Deck and others can do. Be sure to get a good one specifically for gaming, might be a bit of money but you'll be much happier with it and it might still be cheaper than an actual SSD drive.

That is a good idea, Ill check that out. Thank you!

 

[F4C430]

You can play from a flash drive but depending on your flash drive speed, USB speed, and RAM, there could be lag. I've run RPGM and Ren'Py games from it with no problem on my devices.

I honestly would not worry about "killing" your flash drive. I still have a 32 GB SSD drive from 20? years ago that refuses to die. Since everyone uses Cloud drives these days you could probably get a used flash drive for free from someone. Even if you buy a new one, they're cheap. It's more likely to be obsolete before it dies.

 

[Hagatagar]

I still have a 32 GB SSD drive from 20? years ago that refuses to die.

Weren't we still using floppy disks 20 years ago...

<Looks at the calendar...>

 

[MissCougar]

You can play from a flash drive but depending on your flash drive speed, USB speed, and RAM, there could be lag. I've run RPGM and Ren'Py games from it with no problem on my devices.

I honestly would not worry about "killing" your flash drive. I still have a 32 GB SSD drive from 20? years ago that refuses to die. Since everyone uses Cloud drives these days you could probably get a used flash drive for free from someone. Even if you buy a new one, they're cheap. It's more likely to be obsolete before it dies.

Do you have like a 20 year old USB thumb drive still working, or like a laptop SSD, or some more robust external SSD? The USB thumb drives seem to last about 2 years for me with almost no use and just holding files before I start to get errors and read failures and having to unplug and plug it in again to reset it so it actually keeps working.

 

[F4C430]

Do you have like a 20 year old USB thumb drive still working, or like a laptop SSD, or some more robust external SSD? The USB thumb drives seem to last about 2 years for me with almost no use and just holding files before I start to get errors and read failures and having to unplug and plug it in again to reset it so it actually keeps working.

Not a 20-year old flash drive but i do have a 4GB one i still use today and i bought it when max sizes were around 16GB. These things seem to last forever except my old 256MB flash drive. That one did actually die.

 

[Goeffel]

errr,

why not use an usb stick or external HD to move things out and in from/to the notebook?

just moving the game files but keeping the folders in your usual "game" folder and keeping the saves and settings in [user]/appdata/... (or registry) - then you do not need to re-install or anything.

this seems so obvious, I must be missing sth., but what?