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Playing Origin games using Ext. HDD is a terrible choice.

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magenjasper

As what the title said, it is indeed a worse case scenario.

Putting Steam on an Ext. HDD is definitely a good thing to do when you need to run games on a rig that is higher than your potato PC. It works great also when you're playing on an Internet Cafe where you don't need to use Steam Backup to play your own games unless needed. In short, on-the-go gaming buddy.

Meanwhile in Origin, it takes a considerable amount of time to detect your Origin games plus you need to put msvcp.dll and msvcr.dll on the game pathway and the Origin client itself. It took me an hour to make Titanfall run but alas! Origin crashes it due to: "Failed to Initialize Origin: The Origin Installation (a0020008)". In the end, it only made me furious and cringe.

I guess I can only play BF3 and Titanfall at home and not anywhere, unless there's a workaround with Origin on-the-go gaming.

(Based on my experience when playing on an Internet Cafe)

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MRLW

may i ask why to play on Internet Cafe?

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madjoki

"run games on a rig that is higher than your potato PC"

I guess that?

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tevelizor

Internet cafes should come with Linux. Putting Windows on them just makes it a security risk. The PCs in my university's labs have Ubuntu configured to reset to specific state on each reboot.
+it's a lot cheaper

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105731337

We live in a time now where nix distros are easy, there are plenty of systems that are highly secure out of the box, which isn't something we saw 10+ years ago with linux/unix. Now nix is easier to secure than windows.

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tevelizor

It's kinda funny how security evolved. On Unix systems it's basically the same, just a little updated (didn't use it 10 years ago). On Windows, it changed from the super sophisticated "log in as administrator and do whatever the hell you want" to the all new revolutionary ©UAC®, which provides with the super secure yes/no option for deleting system32... They can both be set to prompt a password for anything, it's just that Windows defaults to "Pressing yes will completely wipe all your data after sending all your dick pics to your boss. You won't read this message and will press yes anyway". Linux defaults to "Type a password to install Chrome" with the initial reaction being "What password? MM.. MOOOOOOOM"

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MRLW

good point...but then you can save what you are paying for internet cafe - and gradually upgrade your potato pc into a 2 potato pc :-P

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sviat

Internet Cafes have decent PCs? that's something new, as I know they normally use 5-10 year old trash, at least here, and 5 year old trash will be considered top of the line and not available in all Internet Cafes, normally the PCs they use are really shitty.

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105731337

Some places have nice gaming rigs. Place in my hometown had two rows of 12 computers and they all could play current games at max spec, and this was 10 years ago.

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tevelizor

People are telling me a laptop is bad idea for gaming while they are using an external HDD to play their games in other people's PCs because they don't have a laptop for games. Some PC gamers are horrible people...

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MRLW

well it could be a budget issue ^_^

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thegodoftitsandwine

Someone not having the budget to buy something themselves doesn't automatically equate to giving someone else contradictory advice.

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MRLW

I don't quit follow your words care to explain? :-)

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magenjasper

In my case, I use it to hop in a game without consuming much time in backing up the games. Like I said, "on-the-go buddy". Other than that where I really need to use the backup feature is when me and my partner wants to play together. She uses the backup, while I use Steam in my ext. drive. Time efficient.

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MRLW

yea but why not playing in your pc?

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magenjasper

I do play it on my PC, it's just that I also want to play games while on my break or travel.

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MRLW

ahhh i see ^_^

but wouldn't laptop will be more reasonable then internet cafe?

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magenjasper

Meh, not interested with laptops. I'd prefer a proper gaming platform.

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MRLW

well i used to travel as well, and i dont remember any internet cafe with better pc then my old laptop at the time (got it 2nd hand with good price at the time)

but if it works for you, and you good the great ^_^

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Sicknate

Inb4 "using Origin is a terrible choice"

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faragona

Using Origin is a terrible choice. It just keeps raising my CPU usage and starts stuttering after a while on my laptop.

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tevelizor

That's my experience with gaming in general. It just raises the CPU usage and starts stuttering after a while...

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faragona

It happens when I am NOT gaming...

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Sicknate

Steam by itself did that when i was using a laptop.
Now i have a desktop that is Supervisor! (not Boss, but still higher up)

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faragona

I've never had any issue with Steam. The CPU usage only peaks at start, then never reaches over 5% after that. With Origin, it remains constantly at around 45%.

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Grauhl

Well you can't even do it with uplay. Only drm not possible to connect games again after reinstallation of windows.

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magenjasper

Wait, so if I have now Tom Clancy's The Division which uses Uplay, I believe, I won't be able to play it or works like Origin's installation or detect or w/e crap?

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Grauhl

Uplay wont detect anything. I researched it some and there were some who claimed there were a workaround but i could not make it work.

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magenjasper

Oh well, I guess that's one thing that I should reconsider from pursuing in pre-ordering the game.

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SquireZed

Huh, I never had issues with Uplay for external drives.

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Grauhl

No you can put their games on external drives but if you reinstall you can't reconnect the games again, you have ro reinstall all.

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SquireZed

That's unfortunate.

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MoonFlower

EA monopolism strategies.
That's the first thing that came up in my mind.

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talgaby

Wait, there is actually someone who still plays Titanfall?

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magenjasper

Yes, and I am one of it.

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