June 2017
I have one on the way, but it won't take a short time, so if possible I would cancel the order if it were not possible to play with an external hard drive.
Thanks.
June 2017 - last edited June 2017
June 2017
You can, I played from an external drive for quite some time. I'm currently using a SSD disk, don't notice any difference.
December 2017
December 2017
I did, I had a Seagate external drive. I now moved to an internal disk, I haven't noticed a difference.
May 2019
Okay so just to confirm because my laptop is really old and but my partners is new but I don’t want to take up there storage. I can run the game fully off the external not having any saved data on the laptop it’s self?
May 2019 - last edited May 2019
HI @xLEMN11
You can only move the game files to an external folder. The game also creates a user folder in documents but that can't be redirected. So your user data will always be in the hard drive of your partner.
Also running the game from external drives has it's downsides, especially when you remove the drive and it potentially gets a new drive assigned.
Good Luck
Crin
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