I've Got An Idea To Save Hard Drive Space

[hugoharding]

Fed up with running out of space on your hard drive because of too many games?

Well if this idea is possible (i don't know if it is), then it could be for you!

Basically, would it be possible to install a game onto a blank CD, then get a crack so that when you want to play a game you just put the CD in and play.

Tell me if this would work or why it wouldn't because the idea just suddenly came to me.

Cheers,
Hugo.

[aoyv73]

I have never got that to work but then thats me

[hugoharding]

Why doesn't it work?

Maybe its something to do with registry or something?

What do you think?

[Monkeee]

there wouldn't be enough space on the disk..... ;)

[hugoharding]

Originally posted by Monkeee@7 April 2004 - 22:07
there wouldn't be enough space on the disk..... ;)
There are lots of games under 700MB.

[Monkeee]

Originally posted by hugoharding+7 April 2004 - 23:08--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (hugoharding &#064; 7 April 2004 - 23:08)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Monkeee@7 April 2004 - 22:07
there wouldn&#39;t be enough space on the disk..... ;)
There are lots of games under 700MB. [/b][/quote]
which are bloody crappy...

BTW: it would slow down the game because its running on a CD as well

[delphin460]

i guess if you had a new dvd burner with the dvd ram function, you could format a dvd ram disk and install the game on it if you wanted to

it would work cause dvd ram disks works just like another harddrive

[Dark Ride]

I&#39;ll tell you why it wouldn&#39;t work.

1.) Files have to be read and written fast, and as we know CDs are much slower then HDDs
2.) Files need to be read and WRITTEN constantly.Get it ??

That are the main reasons ;)

[joeyipod]

Originally posted by Dark Ride@8 April 2004 - 00:50
1.) Files have to be read and written fast, and as we know CDs are much slower then HDDs
2.) Files need to be read and WRITTEN constantly.Get it ??
Indeed dark ride is right files have to be constantly writtion and can&#39;t be on a CD trust me dude scrap the idea it will never work.

If you wanna save space I would buy i new HD

[SingaBoiy]

What if you got a cd-rw and its got drag-n-drop feature activated on it. You would think it would work then but it would be very slow.

[gungrave]

:lol:
unstall the games u dont work.
put ur music/films on cds if u got any.
or get a nother hard drive :P

[Bowen747x]

Originally posted by joeyipod@7 April 2004 - 21:40
trust me dude scrap the idea it will never work.

i highly doubt that :D

[Mad Cat]

The game files are compressed (usually in .cab ["cabinet"]) files. That means the computer would have to realtime decompress files, load them into RAM, all off a CD has nowhere near the read time of a hard drive.

If you really want to save space at the cost of performance, enable hard drive compression.

[emir]

if You have a drive speed of 52000000 x maybe it work
or if you want to play crapy games