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    installing games on a 2nd hardrive?

    i have a separate hd and was wondering if you can install games on them and if so would it be beneficial?

    thanks.

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    you can do so, but most games use the registry, so if your windows drive gets toasted, you need to reinstall

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    Yes, of course you can, just tell the installer which drive you want the games installed on. I try and keep my games separate from the OS install, because there will be a slight performance improvement if you are accessing it off a different drive to the OS. Also it makes it better when you come to defrag the drive. Some games are huge ~5GB, and keeping them separate will help u with that a lot

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    Quote Originally Posted by directhex
    you can do so, but most games use the registry, so if your windows drive gets toasted, you need to reinstall
    You would anyway, if you installed the game to the windows drive

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    i've found recently that a few dont, CoD, far cry, quake 3. of course its not an arguement as you can't update them without a reg entry so no real point really, just thought id share

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    i've found recently that a few dont, CoD, far cry, quake 3.
    ive installed both CoD and Q3 on separate harddrives and they've worked fine?

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