Any way to run from a thumb drive?

I have a work laptop that I intend on using to play PoE. I can't install games on it, but there's nothing against running games from another drive. This worked just fine for D3, but I'm having trouble figuring out how to do this with PoE.

The installer refuses to install to a drive that isn't local.

Trying to move the PoE program files folder to my 16 gig thumb drive, I encounter "The file content.ggpk is too large for the destination file system.", which doesn't make sense considering it's 4.3 gigs and my thumb drive is empty.

Anyone else encounter this problem or have any advice? Thanks


[Edit by Support: locked to prevent further necro-posts.]

Pretty sure that FAT32 flash drives can't transfer files larger than 4 gigs, so you'd have to format to NTFS.

I can't remember the last time I tried running a game off of a flash drive, though, so I can't really comment past that.

Format to NTFS, move files over, run .exe first time and it will finish install and patch.

I run mine off of a usb 3.0 drive w/ usb 3.0 MB. Much faster speeds than my so so HDD's

Awesome, thanks. Reformatted and got everything copied over. For some reason I was missing D3DX9_42.dll, but I found that and copied it over too. Client updated and installed the new patch, but now when I run it, it opens the window up for the game to start but then freezes. Am I missing other files?

I've never seen a thumb drive that can move very fast, so you shouldn't have any problem at all running from one.

Any more advice would be appreciated. Copied that .dll over and the client patched itself, but now when I try to run it, the window opens but freezes immediately

How do you format to NTFS? I don't seem to have that option on mine, just FAT32 and exFat

Edit: Used this software http://download.cnet.com/HP-USB-Disk-Storage-Format-Tool/3000-2094_4-10974082.html?

There may be some dependencies that get broken when you just copy the game files over.

What you can try is to re-install the game, but onto the thumb drive. Then when the download starts, exit out, copy over the content.ggpk file, then re-start the installer. It should recognize that you've got the full download so it won't make you re-download it all, and you should have a working game.

But I can't begin to install on a thumb drive, it will only install locally : /

EDIT: Unless what you meant was that I need to run the installer on the local drive and copy my content file to the computer, which is something I'd like to avoid. I don't want to leave a trace on the computer I'm using

This is how you do it:

1) Install PoE on your work computer.

2) Move the correct folders to your thumbdrive (there's two locations... not just one).

3) Make symlinks from the current folder locations to your thumbdrive.

Done.

Any other way likely won't work, due to how the Windows registry works. I don't know or care about Macs. :D