I want to buy an external SSD / HDD and wanted to ask because I have no good internet if I can connect the SSD / HDD to my laptop to my friends etz Farhen since I have a (2k line and better it is not) can there can download game and play back at home peer SSD / HDD.
That's fine
That's not possible with big games. They have to be installed on the PC.
However, there are a lot of good "portable" games. These are not installed. I did that at school. Kerbal Space Program pulled on a USB stick and played on the school PC.
You simply start portable games via the icon (.exe file) because you really do not have to install anything at all and you do not have to pull on your friend's system
Okay not who the games on Steam are
Yes, if you have a loader like Steam, Uplay, Origin or similar. You can use in the settings folder as a game library, these are then scanned and if a game was found it can also be used, but usually some files are reloaded, depending on the game are only a few kilobytes of bus a few hundred megabytes, but it works faster in any case.
'Standalone' programs require registry entries, they can't be easily started, but must be installed on the system.
No. They are bound to the account and with any file, I think steam_api64.dll or something, synonymous to your Windows. Generally, everything you need to install to play it, you can't just take on an external plate and then play somewhere else
No. It does not work.
Thanks, that means you do something like that in bigger games like eg Rainbow and as small games as Monopoly net it's not worth it (running on Steam)
@DerLukasNo more people say it is not as it is. Can be that it has changed but thanks anyway for an answer.
Exactly, you log in to your friend's Steam Client, set the external disk as a game folder in the settings, then install the game there and at home you plug in the disk and add the corresponding folder as a game folder in Steam. Steam will then recognize the game.
The background is that games need libraries and create paths for saves, settings, etc. In order to work or to be able to cleanly uninstall the game again, the operating system needs information about the application (these are deposited in the registry in Windows).
But if you use a launcher like Steam, the launcher does not take over these tasks, that's why it works.
