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Using External Storage For Gaming On 2 Separate PC's
Work with me here. This is a hypothetical question:

If I use my gaming desktop to play games, could I download the games onto an external USB 3.0 SSD and use that external drive on a gaming laptop to share the contents (games) of the drive. That wouldn't work because of registry issues, correct? Is there a way to modify the registry to let it work?

It would be useful for gaming laptops with small hard drives and would prevent redundancy of game storage in separate PC's. If it's just not possible, then I understand, but I was curious and figured I'd ask the more wise community.

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a b D Laptop
September 2, 2014 7:05:25 PM

I believe it would be possible with steam and origin, but i've never tried it so i'm not 100% sure. I would use the same process as when you want to move game files from one folder or drive to another using these clients. You copy the files to the new location then go into steam, click download, but select the new folder as the download destination. It checks the files and if all files are present nothing actually gets downloaded and the game just installs. I think if you did this to an external drive with both the laptop and desktop (selecting the external as the destination folder) it might work. There is an explaination of how to do it on the steam FAQ's, i'll have a look for it.

Edit: Steam link
https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=741...

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