Installing games on portable drives?

[miksanity]

If you have a portable drive, even a usb stick, and you take it to a friends house and there are games installed, connect it, can you play the games at the computer you took it too? I have always been bewildered by this mystery...

[freaksavior]

no. even though some of the files will be there, it won't run because it has to be in the registry and other things like that....idk completely why, i just know it wont.

[miksanity]

oh...lame. but thanks!

[panchoman]

you'd have to make new registry entries on your friends computer to play the game.. you can probably make some .reg files which will automatically add the neccessary entries.

[EviLZeD]

i think only some games can work but i dont think any new games would old sort that dont use the registry

[DanTheBanjoman]

Some games don't require registry settings and the likes. Others rely on it. It really depends on the game in question.

[BrooksyX]

I don't really know about the newest games but I know a bunch of older games can be put on a jump drive and work on another pc. My friends and I used to put age of empires 2, counter strike 1.6, and halo on jump drives/ipods and play eachother over the school network. Lets just say we don't do it any more since we got introuble from the district IT department a few times, but it was fun while it lasted.