I play games that I get off of steam all the time.
The problem is my laptop fell down the stairs, and now the only way I could play my steam games is on my desktop. Unfortunately my desktop is a HUGE honkin rig, and my internet connection at home cuts out after too much bandwidth usage in a day (100 megs) so is there a way to make steam portable so i can put it on my portable hard drive while i'm at school and download my games onto that? (it doesn't work without a user name and pass, it's NOT piracy)
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I under stand ur Plight but Unfortunately it does not meat the requirements of the site and also it is not piracy but configuring steam and packaging steam with one of our launchers is however illegal thus rendering us not able to help you at this point.
I will admit you have a good idea i would also like to do that and it will be of great convinces to the steam community. Maybe if the developers of steam come to such agreement with us, then and only then would this be possible excluding the fact that it just might be impossible to portablize. I am not sure but it might require .net
Next time you should consider using the request forum guidelines.
Never curse the alligator till you done cross the bridge.
Have you tried ?
Just copy your entire Steam-folder to your portable drive .
Many games are in fact already "portable".. maybe not "stealth" but they keep everything within their own DIR
and work fine without being "installed" .
Yeah steam seems to keep every thing in it's own environment. so give it a try
Never curse the alligator till you done cross the bridge.
It will work, I do that myself
I've tried installing it, but it won't allow it to install in my portable hard drive, the inst. file won't allow it as a directory.
Edit: Never mind, I'm a fool. I love you interwebz for pointing out my follies!
Long ago that anyone posted here, but to make this clear (but could also be read in another thread):
Steam is not natively portable, it will leave loads of registry entries and some files.
non-Valve games activated via Steam will probably leave their own files (e.g. UT3)
And I read something saying the newer versions won't even rewrite necesarry files when started up from an differrent location.
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